Child Beverage Consumption
The Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living is developing a series of reports, Healthy Children, Healthy State, to raise awareness of child health risk factors in order to develop new programs and actions, and to build on current initiatives in Texas. The Child Sugar-Sweetened Beverage one-pager showcases the current state of sugar-sweetened beverage consumption for children in Texas.
This report was released on May 19, 2021 and updated on November 4, 2021 and utilizes 2019 - 2020 SPAN data.
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Every day 80.6% of 11th graders drink a sugary beverage. We must improve child sugar-sweetened beverage consumption in Texas. Learn more at go.uth.edu/TexasChildHealth #HealthyChildrenHealthyState
Kids who drink one sugar-sweetened beverage per day can gain up to 14.5 pounds of unnecessary weight in one year. We must improve child sugar-sweetened beverage consumption in Texas. Learn more at go.uth.edu/TexasChildHealth #HealthyChildrenHealthyState
Every day 31.6% of 2nd graders drink 1 or more regular sodas while 68.9% of 2nd graders have 1 or more sugar-sweetened beverages. We must improve child sugar-sweetened beverage consumption in Texas. Learn more at go.uth.edu/TexasChildHealth
Sugar sweetened beverages have negative health associations including tooth decay, overweight and obesity, type 2 diabetes, and heart disease. We must improve child sugar-sweetened beverage consumption in Texas. Learn more at go.uth.edu/TexasChildHealth
See the previous report utilizing 2015-2016 SPAN data here.
This report was released on May 21, 2020.
