In both cases, limiting sweet liquid calories curtailed weight gain in children, compared with those who continued to consume sugared drinks.
Schools trying to bring parents to the table in efforts to root out fat and sugar have faced what Marion Nestle, a professor of nutrition at New York University who strongly supports limiting sweets in schools, calls "the cupcake problem".
The clinical nutritionist focused on meal planning, portion sizes, increasing fruit and vegetables intake, using more whole grain food, choosing low fat dairy products, avoiding sugar containing drinks, and limiting sweets to once a week.
It's about as common-sense as anything our grandmothers told us: limit the sweets, get outside and play, eat fresh stuff.
They have exhausted the limits of sweet reason and international idealism in handling the Soviet menace.
You should also limit the sweets after about 3 or 4pm, we don't want a hyperactive child going to bed do we?
The advice is familiar: brush and floss regularly, use fluoride mouthwash, limit snacks and sweet drinks, visit the dentist twice a year.
The southern limit of kūmara (sweet potato) cultivation was at Banks Peninsula at 43°S, and south of there a culture developed around C. australis.
Use your body, push yourself beyond your limits, feel the sweet ache of muscles that have worked hard and are letting you know about it.
In a comment in the journal Nature, Prof Lustig, a leading child obesity expert, says governments need to consider major shifts in policy, such as taxes, limiting sales of sweet food and drinks during school hours, or even stopping children from buying them below a certain age.
