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Association of beverage consumption with obesity in Mexican American children

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Beck, Amy L, Tschann, Jeanne, Butte, Nancy F, Penilla, Carlos, Greenspan, Louise C·2014·Public Health Nutrition
DOI 10.1017/s1368980012005514PMC PMC4430195
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Objective: To determine the association of beverage consumption with obesity in Mexican American school-aged children. Design: Cross-sectional study using the baseline data from a cohort study. Mothers and children answered questions about the frequency and quantity of the child's consumption of soda, diet soda, other sugar-sweetened beverages, 100 % fruit juice, milk and water. The questions were adapted from the Youth/Adolescent FFQ. Children were weighed and measured. Data were collected on the following potential confounders: maternal BMI, household income, maternal education, maternal occupational status, maternal acculturation, child physical activity, child screen time and child fast-food consumption. Logistic regression was used to examine the association between servings (240 ml) of each beverage per week and obesity (BMI ≥ 95th percentile). Setting: Participants were recruited from among enrolees of the Kaiser Permanente Health Plan of Northern California. Data were collected via an in-home assessment. Subjects: Mexican American children (n 319) aged 8–10 years. Results: Among participants, 20 % were overweight and 31 % were obese. After controlling for potential confounders, consuming more servings of soda was associated with increased odds of obesity (OR = 1·29; P < 0·001). Consuming more servings of flavoured milk per week was associated with lower odds of obesity (OR = 0·88; P = 0·004). Consumption of other beverages was not associated with obesity in the multivariate model. Conclusions: Discouraging soda consumption among Mexican American children may help reduce the high obesity rates in this population.

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Authors
Beck, A. L., Tschann, J., Butte, N. F., Penilla, C., & Greenspan, L. C.
Affiliations
  • University of California, San Francisco (US)
  • Baylor College of Medicine (US)
  • Kaiser Permanente (US)
Corresponding author
Beck, Amy L
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Venue
Public Health Nutrition
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Published
2013-01-11
Volume
17
Issue
2
Pages
338-344
ISSN
  • 1368-9800 (ISSN-L)
  • 1475-2727
DOI
10.1017/s1368980012005514
PMC
PMC4430195
OpenAlex
W2111390731
Cited by
51
References
40
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FWCI
4.42
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
www.cambridge.org/core/terms (unspecified)
Locations
  • Public Health Nutrition (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
Funders
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (R01HL084404)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Nutrition, Health and Food Behavior
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism › Diet, Metabolism, and Disease
Keywords
beverage consumption, childhood obesity, Mexican American children, soft drink consumption, diet soda, sugar-sweetened beverages, flavoured milk, fruit juice, body mass index
MeSH terms
Beverages, California, Energy Intake, Child, Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena, Cross-Sectional Studies, Feeding Behavior, Female, Humans, Male, Socioeconomic Factors, Body Mass Index, Mexican Americans, Pediatric Obesity

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