SWEET TOOTH STUDY
November 1st, 2003
BY PHILIP FINE
SWEET drinks are helping to increase daily caloric averages, according to a study published in the USA's Obesity Research. The research found average world consumption up by 74 calories a day, with sugar making up a larger proportion of that increase. Americans, for example, consumed 83 more calories in sweeteners in the last 26 years. The study's co-author Barry Popkin, a professor at the University of North Carolina, says 80 per cent of those sweeteners came from drinks. "This study clearly documents for this country that the increase in ...
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