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Improving the availability of low-calorie beverages in the home environment decreases SSB intake and body weight in adolescents with overweight or obesity.
For families with overweight adolescents who drink a lot of soda, deliver or stock water and diet beverages at home. This simple environmental change has high-certainty evidence for reducing soda intake and body weight.
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We found moderate-certainty evidence that improved availability of low-calorie beverages in the home environment is associated with decreased SSB intake, and high-certainty evidence that it is associated with decreased body weight among adolescents with overweight or obesity and a high baseline consumption of SSBs.
Why this rating
High-certainty evidence for body weight reduction in the specified subgroup.
Source
Environmental interventions to reduce the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages and their effects on health
Peter von Philipsborn et al. · Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews · 2019
DOI 10.1002/14651858.cd012292.pub2
Meta-analysis · 58 studiesCited 304×
Read the paper DOI resolved against Crossref · corpus check 2026-06-10
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