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Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Ban and Employee Health 9In this before-and-after study and additional randomized trial, Epel and colleagues evaluated whether a workplace ban on sugar-sweetened beverage sales was associated with sugarsweetened beverage intake and cardiometabolic health among employees and whether a brief motivational intervention provided added benefits to the sales ban.The employer in the trial stopped selling sugar-sweetened beverages in all workplace venues, and half of the participants were randomized to receive a brief motivational intervention.Participants reported consuming fewer sugar-sweetened beverages after the ban as well as a reduction in waist circumference and sagittal diameter but no change in body mass index or insulin sensitivity.Those randomized to receive a brief motivational intervention reported greater improvements.