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Dear Betty and Ms. Krien,

 

Here is a copy of our August, 2008 publication on artificially sweetened beverages and weight gain. I hope that this will be of some help!

 

I don't know the copyright regulations concerning posting the full text of the paper on a website (otherwise that would be fine with me!), but if you wanted to use the reference, or the PubMed abstract, they're listed below.

 

Take care, and all my very best to you both in your work -

Sharon

 

 

 

 

Fueling the obesity epidemic? Artificially sweetened beverage use and long-term weight gain.

Fowler SP, Williams K, Resendez RG, Hunt KJ, Hazuda HP, Stern MP.

Obesity (Silver Spring). 2008 Aug;16(8):1894-900. Epub 2008 Jun 5.

PMID: 18535548 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

 

Fueling the obesity epidemic? Artificially sweetened beverage use and long-term weight gain.

Fowler SP, Williams K, Resendez RG, Hunt KJ, Hazuda HP, Stern MP.

Department of Medicine, Division of Clinical Epidemiology, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, USA. fowlers

We have examined the relationship between artificially sweetened beverage (ASB) consumption and long-term weight gain in the San Antonio Heart Study. From 1979 to 1988, height, weight, and ASB consumption were measured among 5,158 adult residents of San Antonio, Texas. Seven to eight years later, 3,682 participants (74% of survivors) were re-examined. Outcome measures were incidence of overweight/obesity (OW/OB(inc)) and obesity (OB(inc)) (BMI > or = 25 and > or = 30 kg/m(2), respectively), and BMI change by follow-up (DeltaBMI, kg/m(2)). A significant positive dose-response relationship emerged between baseline ASB consumption and all outcome measures, adjusted for baseline BMI and demographic/behavioral characteristics. Consuming >21 ASBs/week (vs. none) was associated with almost-doubled risk of OW/OB (odds ratio (OR) = 1.93, P = 0.007) among 1,250 baseline normal-weight (NW) individuals, and doubled risk of obesity (OR = 2.03, P = 0.0005) among 2,571 individuals with baseline BMIs <30 kg/m(2). Compared with nonusers (+1.01 kg/m(2)), DeltaBMIs were significantly higher for ASB quartiles 2-4: +1.46 (P = 0.003), +1.50 (P = 0.002), and +1.78 kg/m(2) (P < 0.0001), respectively. Overall, adjusted DeltaBMIs were 47% greater among artificial sweetener (AS) users than nonusers (+1.48 kg/m(2) vs. +1.01 kg/m(2), respectively, P < 0.0001). In separate analyses--stratified by gender; ethnicity; baseline weight category, dieting, or diabetes status; or exercise-change category--DeltaBMIs were consistently greater among AS users. These differences, though not significant among exercise increasers, or those with baseline diabetes or BMI >30 kg/m(2) (P = 0.069), were significant in all 13 remaining strata. These findings raise the question whether AS use might be fueling--rather than fighting--our escalating obesity epidemic.

PMID: 18535548 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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