June 18th, 2012 by Len Saunders
From The New York Daily News?..
As New Yorkers continue to debate a controversial proposal to ban supersized sodas, a new study out of Canada says the link between the consumption of sweetened beverages and childhood obesity is weak at best.
It?s the latest study to weigh in on the controversy which has divided the city, with supporters lauding Mayor Michael Bloomberg?s initiative to combat rising obesity and others calling the strategy shortsighted.
The Canadian study, to be published in the October issue of Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism, determined that more than the consumption of sugary drinks, the main predictors of childhood obesity among Canadian children were household income, ethnicity and household food security.
But it also found that the intake of sweetened beverages and the risk of obesity indeed played a factor in boys aged 6 to 11.
For their study, researchers examined the relationship between the intake of sweetened beverages like fruit punch and lemonade and data from a cross-sectional Canadian Community Health Survey of children and teens aged 2 to 18 years.
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