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A study in Massachusetts suggests that boys who regularly consume sugary drinks and fruit juices during childhood and adolescence may have an increased risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, as indicated by glycemic markers. This correlation was not observed in girls. Additionally, the study found no significant link between consuming fresh fruit during childhood and adolescence and Type 2 diabetes risk in either gender.
“While these findings are preliminary, they support the existing evidence about the potential relationship between beverages with added sugar and long-term risk of Type 2 diabetes in children,” said lead investigator Soren Harnois-Leblanc, Ph.D., a registered dietitian and postdoctoral researcher in the department of population medicine at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute and Harvard Medical School, both in Boston.
Eating fresh fruit during childhood and adolescence did not appear to have a positive or negative effect on the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes among the boys or girls in the study, according to Harnois-Leblanc. “The next steps are to use more advanced statistical tools to enable us to better understand the potential causal role of sugary drinks and fruit juices, and to examine whether the relationships may also differ among children by race and/or ethnicity.”Researchers analyzed data of children of the 2,128 pregnant women who had children while enrolled in Project Viva. 972 of the children met the criteria for inclusion in this study .
“Diet and cardiometabolic health are complex, with many factors varying over time and interacting in different ways, and this study represents one small piece of this puzzle,” Harnois-Leblanc said.
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