For example, one of the most widely cited intervention studies on soda and weight, ( Ebbeling et al. 2006) took 103 adolescents aged 13 to 18 who regularly consumed soda and randomly assigned them to either a group that received no calorie beverages for six months by way of home delivery or a control group that carried on drinking soda as normal.

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