title: [Sugar-sweetened beverages and cardiometabolic risk].
abstract: The observation of parallel increase in the prevalence of obesity and consumption of sweet beverages has drawn the attention of the scientific community on the possibility of a link between these tendencies at the population level. Clinical and epidemiological evidence support the possibility of a relationship between consumption of sweet beverages and the occurrence of obesity and diabetes. The precise mechanisms of these associations need further clarification. Nutritional education programs aiming at reducing sweet beverage intake in experimental schools have lowered the occurrence of obesity as compared to control schools. Energy intake via beverages is less efficiently regulated than energy from solid foods. Strategies for obesity and diabetes prevention should incorporate not only increasing physical activity, improving fatty acid quality of food items, but also reducing energy intake from beverages.
authors.affiliation: Institut Pasteur de Lille, service d'épidémiologie et santé publique, Inserm U744, 1, rue du Pr-Calmette, 59019 Lille cedex, France. jean.dallongeville@pasteur-lille.fr
authors.forename: Jean
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dallongeville
authors.forename: Bernard
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Charbonnel
authors.forename: Jean-Pierre
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Desprès
mesh_terms: D001628:Beverages / Q000009:adverse effects*; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008659:Metabolic Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D012307:Risk Factors; D013549:Sweetening Agents / Q000009:adverse effects*
chemical_list: D013549:Sweetening Agents