Dietary sugar and body weight: Have we reached a crisis in the epidemic of obesity and diabetes? - We have but the pox on sugar is overwrought and overworked

Diabetes Care

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 957-962

  Kahn, Richard ^a   Sievenpiper, John L ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRUCTOSE; SUCROSE; SUGAR INTAKE;

APPETITE; BODY WEIGHT; CALORIC INTAKE; CALORIC RESTRICTION; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; ENERGY RESOURCE; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; LOW CALORY DIET; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SATIETY; SUGAR INTAKE; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WELLBEING; CANADA; COMPLICATION; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIET; DRUG EFFECTS; EATING; EPIDEMIOLOGY;

BODY WEIGHT; CANADA; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIET; DIETARY SUCROSE; EATING; ENERGY INTAKE; HUMANS; OBESITY;

EID: 84897849697     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: 19355548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/dc13-2506     Document Type: Review

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