TY - JOUR
T1 - Opportunities to reduce children's excessive consumption of calories from beverages
AU - Rader, Ryan K.
AU - Mullen, Kathy B.
AU - Sterkel, Randall
AU - Strunk, Robert C.
AU - Garbutt, Jane M.
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This study was supported by the Washington University Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences Grant No. UL1 TR000448 from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Children’s Discovery Institute (Grant No. LI-2012-200).
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2014.
PY - 2014/10
Y1 - 2014/10
N2 - Objective. To describe children's consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) and 100% fruit juice (FJ), and identify factors that may reduce excessive consumption. Design. A total of 830 parents of young children completed a 36-item questionnaire at the pediatricians' office. Results. Children consumed soda (62.2%), other SSBs (61.6%), and FJ (88.2%): 26.9% exceeded the American Academy of Pediatrics' recommended daily FJ intake. 157 (18.9%) children consumed excessive calories (>200 kcal/d) from beverages (median = 292.2 kcal/d, range 203.8-2177.0 kcal/d). Risk factors for excessive calorie consumption from beverages were exceeding recommendations for FJ (odds ratio [OR] = 119.7, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 52.2-274.7), being 7 to 12 years old (OR = 4.3, 95%CI = 1.9-9.9), and having Medicaid insurance (OR = 2.6, 95%CI = 1.1-6.0). Parents would likely reduce beverage consumption if recommended by the physician (65.6%). Conclusions. About 1 in 5 children consumes excessive calories from soda, other SSBs and FJ, with FJ the major contributor.
AB - Objective. To describe children's consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) and 100% fruit juice (FJ), and identify factors that may reduce excessive consumption. Design. A total of 830 parents of young children completed a 36-item questionnaire at the pediatricians' office. Results. Children consumed soda (62.2%), other SSBs (61.6%), and FJ (88.2%): 26.9% exceeded the American Academy of Pediatrics' recommended daily FJ intake. 157 (18.9%) children consumed excessive calories (>200 kcal/d) from beverages (median = 292.2 kcal/d, range 203.8-2177.0 kcal/d). Risk factors for excessive calorie consumption from beverages were exceeding recommendations for FJ (odds ratio [OR] = 119.7, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 52.2-274.7), being 7 to 12 years old (OR = 4.3, 95%CI = 1.9-9.9), and having Medicaid insurance (OR = 2.6, 95%CI = 1.1-6.0). Parents would likely reduce beverage consumption if recommended by the physician (65.6%). Conclusions. About 1 in 5 children consumes excessive calories from soda, other SSBs and FJ, with FJ the major contributor.
KW - Fruit juice
KW - Intervention strategies
KW - Obesity
KW - Practice-based research network
KW - Sugar-sweetened beverages
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U2 - 10.1177/0009922814540989
DO - 10.1177/0009922814540989
M3 - Article
C2 - 24990366
AN - SCOPUS:84923823058
VL - 53
SP - 1047
EP - 1054
JO - Clinical Pediatrics
JF - Clinical Pediatrics
SN - 0009-9228
IS - 11
ER -