excess sugar intake

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Complications

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]

↑ O'Connor L et al Prospective associations and population impact of sweet beverage intake and type 2 diabetes, and effects of substitutions with alternative beverages. Diabetologia. Spring 2015 http://www.diabetologia-journal.org/files/OConnor.pdf
↑ Imamura F et al. Consumption of sugar sweetened beverages, artificially sweetened beverages, and fruit juice and incidence of type 2 diabetes: Systematic review, meta-analysis, and estimation of population attributable fraction. BMJ 2015; 351:h3576 PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26199070
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 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 et al. The scientific basis of guideline recommendations on sugar intake: A systematic review. Ann Intern Med 2016 Dec 20; PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27992898