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Reviewing "Replacing caloric beverages with water or diet beverages for weight loss in adults: main results of the Choose Healthy Options Consciously Everyday (CHOICE) randomized clinical trial" by Deborah F Tate, Gabrielle Turner-McGrievy, Elizabeth Lyons, June Stevens, Karen Erickson, Kristen Polzien, Molly Diamond, Xiaoshan Wang, and Barry Popkin

1. What is the main question addressed in this paper?
2. Why is this important?
3. What was the hypothesis that the authors tested?
4. How was the research question addressed?
a. What was the population studied?
b. What was the sample size (sample size = n)?
c. What was the setting of the study (clinic, laboratory, free-living)?
d. What was the study design (eg, epidemiological, intervention, case-control)?
e. What were the study groups?
f. Were the subjects randomized? What does randomized mean?
g. How long was the study?
h. What were the controls for the study (placebo, cross-over, etc.)? What do these terms they used as a control mean?
i. What were the independent variables?
j. What was (were) the primary dependent variable(s) (observations) and how was (were) each
determined?
k. What other factors were considered in the study that might influence the results (otherwise known as confounders)?
5. What were the primary results of the study?
6. Did the authors describe limitations to the study?
7. List a limitation(s) in the study that you see?
8. What are the implications of the results of the study to health of the US population?
9. To whom do these results apply?
10. If the results of this study were reproduced in other studies,
a. Are there Public Policy recommendations that you would like to see implemented?
b. How might they impact the health of the US population? Please describe specifically how these
results would affect specific diseases.
11. Given these results, is there another question you might ask related to this investigation (a follow up study)?

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This answer provides critical analysis of a randomized clinical trial testing replacement of caloric beverages with water or diet beverages for weight loss in adults, as a Choose Healthy Options Consciously Everyday intervention.

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These are my opinions on the paper. They might be different from yours.

Questions:

1. What is the main question addressed in this paper?

The main intention is to see whether the substitution of caloric beverages with diet beverages and water will result in greater wait loss over 6 months period as compared to attention control individuals.

2. Why is this important?

This is a simple diet modification step that can be advocated at mass levels to produce modest but cost effective weight reduction.

3. What was the hypothesis that the authors tested?

The author tested two hypotheses

First; participants assigned to the beverage substitution groups would achieve greater weight loss at 6 mo than would participants in the AC group

Second; reduction in caloric beverage consumption, regardless of the replacement type, would result in a greater likelihood of achieving a 5% weight loss than would the control.

4. How was the research question addressed?

a. What was the population studied?

Obese but otherwise healthy older adults of mixed ethnicity consuming ? 280 kcal/d of caloric beverages, were included

b. What was the sample size (sample size = n)?

Total: 318
DB: 105
AC: 105
W: 108

c. What was the setting of the study (clinic, laboratory, ...

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