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Dietary sugars and cardiometabolic risk: systematic review and meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials of the effects on blood pressure and lipids1–3

Dietary sugars have been suggested as a cause of obesity, several chronic diseases, and a range of cardiometabolic risk factors, but there is no convincing evidence of a causal relation between sugars
- 07/05/2014
- American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

b-Carotene in Golden Rice is as good as b-carotene in oil at providing vitamin A to children

Golden Rice (GR) has been genetically engineered to be rich in b-carotene for use as a source of vitamin A. The objective was to compare the vitamin A value of b-carotene in GR and in spinach with that
- 01/08/2012
- American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
- - Rice
  - Genetic Engineering
  - Nutrition
  - Child Health
  - Vegetables
  - China
  - Agriculture
  - Research
Replacing caloric beverages with water or diet beverages for weight loss in adults: main results of the Choose Healthy Options Consciously Everyday (CHOICE) randomized clinical trial 1–4

Replacement of caloric beverages with noncaloric beverages may be a simple strategy for promoting modest weight reduction; however, the effectiveness of this strategy is not known. The authors compared
- 01/03/2012
- American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

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