The more likely conclusion is that dropouts in the low sugar group returned to old beverage consumption habits in the interim, thereby muddling the intervention effect on the 18-month results.
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Although the trial has several limitations, children in the low sugar group scored significantly lower across multiple measures of obesity, including BMI, weight, skinfold-thickness measurements, waist-to-height ratio, and fat mass.
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Some of the biggest donors included Altria Group, American Crystal Sugar, Dean Foods and Deere and Company.
Cambridge Biostability, with support from Britain's Department for International Development and the Programme for Appropriate Technology in Health, an American not-for-profit group, is working on a sugar-glass version of a combined shot against five nasty childhood diseases, including diphtheria and meningitis.
He built his Dangote Group into a conglomerate with interests in sugar, flour milling, cement and salt processing.
When the video was over, half of each group was given a glass of lemonade with sugar in it and half was given a glass of lemonade with sugar substitute.
He started trading commodities more than 30 years ago after receiving a business loan from his uncle, and eventually built the Dangote Group, which in addition to cement owns sugar refineries, flour milling and salt processing facilities.
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THSRC's troubles stem from those of some of its constantly changing investors, including the private Fubon group, and Taisugar, a government-owned sugar company.
The findings, just published in Public Health Nutrition, are a rebuff to an increasingly vocal campaign by a small group of public health academics to impose hefty taxes on sugar sweetened beverages in order to curb obesity.
Seven years ago, Kraft was spun off by Altria Group and just two years ago, it sold all of its sugar confectionery business.
The consumer group found all but one of the 30 bars it analysed were high in sugar, with more than half containing over 30% sugar.
He delved into full production of these items in the early 2000s and went on to build the Dangote Group, West Africa's largest publicly-listed conglomerate, which now owns sugar refineries, salt processing facilities and Dangote Cement, the continent's largest cement producer.
Some of the fringe activist groups opposed to genetic engineering have an anti-science, anti-technology, anti-business agenda, but given the environmental advantages of Roundup-ready seeds it's puzzling that a group like the Sierra Club, one of the co-plaintiffs in the alfalfa and sugar beet litigation, is working so hard to keep the seeds off the market.
There is only limited evidence that taxes would help reduce obesity, the group said, adding that only 7% of the calories in the American diet come from sugar-sweetened beverages.
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