«Along with other research released recently from Western Australia showing increased harms on nights when people consumed energy drinks, it is becoming more apparent about how associations
between energy drink consumption and greater levels of intoxication and harm can be explained, and that the concerns of researchers regarding social order and public health appear to be warranted, despite industry lobbying to the contrary.»
The lower levels of baseline sugar sweetened
drink consumption in the UK compared with the US may in part explain why the effect on obesity that we estimate in the UK is much less than that estimated in the US.12 The differences with respect to other modelling studies may also be partly explained by their use of higher own price elasticity values for sugar sweetened
drinks than we have calculated and used here.18 22 52 We can not make direct comparisons
between the results of our study and the results of recent studies of the effect of reducing sugar sweetened
drink consumption on body weight in children, 5 7 as the relation
between energy balance and change in body mass index in children who are growing is different from that in adults.