date:Mar 13, 2013
d 12 to 18, according to the report scheduled for publication in the April issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
Among all age groups analyzed, the energy density (calories per gram) of food consumed increased with higher sugar-sweetened beverage intake, lead investigator Kevin Mathias, of the department of nutrition at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said in a journal news release.
He said the findings suggest that higher consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages i