Kids and sweetness
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From the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, I'm Ira Dreyfuss with HHS HealthBeat.
Keeping a kid away from sugar-sweetened drinks is not so easy. A study finds kids seem to find ways around it.
Researcher Daniel Taber of the University of Illinois at Chicago looked at survey data on about 6,900 fifth- and eighth graders in 40 states. Some states banned all sweetened drinks in schools; others banned only sweetened sodas.
"We were seeing positive results within school. We were seeing less access, we were seeing less purchasing, if the states banned all sweetened beverages. But it just wasn't translating into lower consumption overall." (11 seconds)
Taber says parents will need to help kids understand that added sugar doesn't help them.
The study in Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine was supported by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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HHS HealthBeat is a production of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. I'm Ira Dreyfuss.