dietary sugar
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Epidemiology
- average child's daily dietary sugar intake is 80 g/day[2]
- sugar from beverages appears to be much more harmful to long-term health than sugar from food[4]
Complications
- excess weight gain, obesity
- dental caries
Management
- limit added dietary sugar to < 25 g/day (< 6 tsp/day) for children & adolescents[2]
- recommended upper limit for dietary sugars
- limit intake of sugar-sweetened beverages (soda) to one 8-oz serving/week[2]
- avoid added dietary sugar in children < 2 years of age[2]
- quality of data supporting guidelines to reduce dietary sugar is very low*[3]
* industry-sponsored review questions guidelines on limiting sugar intake
- review funded by a trade group representing several large food & beverage companies, including Coca-Cola, Snapple, Hershey, & Pepsi
- editorialists reject the reviewers' conclusions[3]
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 World Health Organization (WHO) WHO opens public consultation on draft sugars guideline. http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/notes/2014/consultation-sugar-guideline/en/
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Vos MB, Kaar JL, Welsh JA et al AHA Scientific Statement Added Sugars and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Children. A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association. Circulation. August 22, 2016 http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/early/2016/08/22/CIR.0000000000000439
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Moloo J Industry-Funded Review Challenges Guideline Recommendations to Limit Sugar Intake. NEJM Journal Watch. Jan 5, 2017 Massachusetts Medical Society (subscription needed) http://www.jwatch.org
Erickson J, Sadeghirad B, Lytvyn L et al The Scientific Basis of Guideline Recommendations on Sugar Intake: A Systematic Review. Ann Intern Med. 2016. Dec 20. <PubMed> PMID: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27992898 <Internet> http://annals.org/aim/article/2593601/scientific-basis-guideline-recommendations-sugar-intake-systematic-review
Schillinger D, Kearns C Guidelines to Limit Added Sugar Intake: Junk Science or Junk Food? Ann Intern Med. 2016. <PubMed> PMID: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27992900 <Internet> http://annals.org/aim/article/2593852/guidelines-limit-added-sugar-intake-junk-science-junk-food - ↑ 4.0 4.1 Della Corte KA, Bosler T, McClure C Dietary Sugar Intake and Incident Type 2 Diabetes Risk: A Systematic Review and Dose-Response Meta-Analysis of Prospective Cohort Studies. Adv Nutr. 2025 May;16(5):100413. PMID: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40122386 Free article. Review. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2161831325000493