Weight discordant siblings' ability to reduce energy intake at a meal as compensation for prior energy intake from sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs).

ABSTRACT:

Background

Insufficient compensation for energy from sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) consumed prior to meals may promote greater overall energy intake. If so, ability to compensate for prior energy intake may account for difference in adiposity between adolescents with and without overweight. Studies of fraternal siblings discordant for weight status control for some genetic and shared within-family factors, which allows for testing how putative non-shared factors, such as parental control of feeding, predicts sibling weight differences.

Aim

To determine whether same-sex weight-discordant (one with, one without overweight) adolescent siblings differ in ability to compensate for prior energy intake.

Methods

Same-sex biological sibling pairs (mean age = 15.4; 95% confi

SUBMITTER: Ufholz K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8085904 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature