"Over 20 months, students at 10 schools that ran the program reduced their soda intake, compared with their peers at eight "control" schools. Girls at the intervention schools also showed a smaller increase in body fat.The "benefits" must have been income for the researchers.
However, those benefits tended to wane over time. And certain other positive effects seen at the eight-month mark -- like less weight gain around the waistline in boys -- had disappeared by the 20-month point."
To wit:
"Further studies, she and her colleagues say, should look at whether longer-term education efforts help teenagers maintain healthy lifestyle changes over time."The request for more money on useless research.
I'll bet they get funded, too.
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