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Strategies to Limit Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption in Young Children: Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief
Strategies to Limit Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption in Young Children: Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief
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Tina Kauh of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) explained that the high levels of consumption among young children and the disparities in intake, especially among population groups at risk for poor health outcomes, are factors that are motivating RWJF to identify policy opportunities to decrease sugar-sweetened beverage intake and to increase safe water consumption among children 5 years of age and younger.
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She described studies in which improving water access and offering beverage selection education in the school setting increased water intake among students, but she added that little research has been done in the child care setting to date. Hecht outlined beverage standards 2
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In addition to evaluating dietary intake patterns, the 2015 DGAC also provided recommendations on evidence-based policies. Pérez-Escamilla highlighted a number of policies recommended by the 2015 DGAC relevant to limiting sugar-sweetened beverage intake, including implementing excise taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages, leveraging federal food assistance programs to encourage the purchase of healthier food options, developing and expanding programs within schools and early care and education (ECE)
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With more than half of children 5 years of age and younger spending a considerable portion of their time in non-parental care, opportunities exist to leverage child care policies to improve young children's access to nutritious food and active play, suggested Natasha Frost, senior staff attorney at the Public Health Law Center. She explained that ECE settings are primarily regulated at the state level, which has led to a highly decentralized and heterogeneous landscape across the United States.
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For example, she shared that in 2006, the Board of Health amended the health code to include requirements for child care centers that prohibit provision of sugar-sweetened beverages, require appropriate juice portion sizes (which were further modified in 2015) , and increase the availability of drinking water.
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Evidence from the first year of a penny-per-ounce excise tax on sugar-sweetened beverages in Berkeley, California, suggests "taxes may be effective in shifting consumers to healthier beverages without undue economic hardship and while raising revenue," she said. As for warning labels, Silver described two models that have been proposed as local laws in the United States -- labeling on the product and labeling on print advertisements.
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One of the challenges the panel addressed was the terminology used to describe fruit drinks that are not 100 percent juice. Schwartz indicated that using the term fruit drinks to describe such products can lead to confusion because it contains the word fruit, a sentiment also shared by Story.
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not drink 100 percent fruit juice up until age five," and acknowledged that there are concerns about the dietary substitutions that would occur. Black questioned whether it was necessary to collect data on children birth to 6 months of age, as it would be assumed that this age group would not be consuming sugar-sweetened beverages.
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SPONSORS: This workshop was partially supported by The California Endowment, the Chobani Foundation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. For additional information regarding the workshop, visit http://nationalacademies.org/hmd/Activities/Nutrition/ StategiesToLimitSSBConsumptioninYoungChildren/2017-JUN-21.aspx.
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