Do Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Cause Obesity and Diabetes?
Authors: Dean Schillinger, Cristin Kearns
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (2017)

Letters4 July 2017Do Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Cause Obesity and Diabetes?Dean Schillinger, MD and Cristin Kearns, DDS, MBADean Schillinger, MDFrom San Francisco General Hospital and University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California.Search for more papers by this author and Cristin Kearns, DDS, MBAFrom San Francisco General Hospital and University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/L17-0188 SectionsAboutFull TextPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail IN RESPONSE:Dr. Slavin claims that our team erred by misidentifying her as being affiliated with the SSB industry when she published the 2012 article that we included in our review and by miscategorizing that article as a negative study. Dr. Slavin has, indeed, been affiliated with food and beverage industries since at least 2010. In her article that we reviewed for our observation (1), she did not disclose any conflicts of interest. However, in related work published in 2015 (2), she disclosed that she had given 150 scientific presentations in 13 countries in the previous 5 years (that is, ...References1. Slavin J. Beverages and body weight: challenges in the evidence-based review process of the Carbohydrate Subcommittee from the 2010 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee. Nutr Rev. 2012;70 Suppl 2:S111-20. [PMID: 23121345] doi:10.1111/j.1753-4887.2012.00537.x CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar2. Erickson J, Slavin J. Are restrictive guidelines for added sugars science based? Nutr J. 2015;14:124. [PMID: 26652250] doi:10.1186/s12937-015-0114-0 CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar3. White J, Bero LA. Corporate manipulation of research: strategies are similar across five industries. Stanford Law Pol Rev. 2010;21:105. Google Scholar4. Aveyard P, Yach D, Gilmore AB, Capewell S. Should we welcome food industry funding of public health research? BMJ. 2016;353:i2161. [PMID: 27098491] doi:10.1136/bmj.i2161 CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar5. Ulucanlar S, Fooks GJ, Gilmore AB. The policy dystopia model: an interpretive analysis of tobacco industry political activity. PLoS Med. 2016;13:e1002125. [PMID: 27649386] doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1002125 CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar6. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Get the facts: sugar-sweetened beverages and consumption. 2017. Accessed at www.cdc.gov/nutrition/data-statistics/sugar-sweetened-beverages-intake.html on 22 February 2017. Google Scholar Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: From San Francisco General Hospital and University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California.Disclosures: Disclosures can be viewed at www.acponline.org/authors/icmje/ConflictOfInterestForms.do?msNum=L16-0534. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetailsSee AlsoDo Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Cause Obesity and Diabetes? Industry and the Manufacture of Scientific Controversy Dean Schillinger , Jessica Tran , Christina Mangurian , and Cristin Kearns Do Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Cause Obesity and Diabetes? Joanne Slavin Do Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Cause Obesity and Diabetes? Maia M. Jack Metrics 4 July 2017Volume 167, Issue 1Page: 72-73KeywordsBeveragesBody weightConflicts of interestDietDisclosureFoodLongitudinal studiesNutritionObesitySystematic reviews ePublished: 4 July 2017 Issue Published: 4 July 2017 Copyright & PermissionsCopyright © 2017 by American College of Physicians. All Rights Reserved.PDF downloadLoading ...