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Intake of cola beverages containing caffeine does not increase, but reduces body weight

European Journal of Clinical Nutrition volume 66, page 538 (2012)Cite this article

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Keast et al. (2011) report in their recently published study that caffeine reduces sweetness of sucrose and calculate the potential reduction of sucrose in the beverages if caffeine would be removed. In addition, the authors predict an effect on weight gain that would be 0.6 kg in adults. This research is in line with similar recent papers that conclude negative effects of cola beverages on health, especially as one of the causes of the obesity epidemics (Malik et al., 2010a, 2010b). However, such conclusions are not correct and are based on presumptions, not on rigid scientific experiments.

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  1. Institute of Molecular Biomedicine, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia

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  2. Institute of Pathophysiology, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia

    P Celec

  3. Department of Molecular Biology, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia

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Celec, P. Intake of cola beverages containing caffeine does not increase, but reduces body weight. Eur J Clin Nutr 66, 538 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/ejcn.2012.11

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