TY  - JOUR
T1  - WHy blame milk?—reply
AU  - Berkey CS
Y1  - 2005/12/01
N1  - 10.1001/archpedi.159.12.1188
JO  - Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
SP  - 1186
EP  - 1188
VL  - 159
IS  - 12
N2  - 
We appreciate the comments of Dr Lappe on our longitudinal study of milk consumption and weight gain in adolescents.1 To clarify a point in her letter, our earlier (2004) study of sugar-added beverages and weight gain was a longitudinal study as well.2 The cross-sectional association she cited was from baseline data and not the major focus of that article, but it illustrates the risk in overinterpreting cross-sectional results. Children who were heavier at baseline drank less milk and more diet soda; we should not conclude from this that drinking more diet soda causes weight gain, nor that drinking less milk causes weight gain.

SN  - 1072-4710
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archpedi.159.12.1188
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.159.12.1188
ER  -