Calories from soft drinks - Do they matter?

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 367, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 1462-1463

  Caprio, Sonia ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEVERAGE; BODY MASS; CALORIC INTAKE; CALORIE; CHILD NUTRITION; CHILDHOOD OBESITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EDITORIAL; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; LIPID STORAGE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RISK REDUCTION; SOFT DRINK; SUGAR SWEETENED BEVERAGE; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 84867193119     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe1209884     Document Type: Editorial

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