U.S. High School Kids Abandoning Sweetened Sodas

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U.S. High School Kids Abandoning Sweetened Sodas
CDC study finds daily intake of these and other sugary drinks fell to just 20 percent by 2015
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By E.J. Mundell
Thursday, February 2, 2017
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THURSDAY, Feb. 2, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- There's good news when it comes to American teens' diets, with more high school kids saying no to sodas and other sweetened beverages, researchers say.

A new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that while just over a third of kids in grades 9 through 12 drank a sweetened beverage each day in 2007, that number had fallen to 20.5 percent by 2015.

Still, more can be done to help kids avoid the empty calories of sweetened sodas and drinks, the CDC team said.

https://medlineplus.gov/news/fullstory_163383.html

[GtHawk]

What I have seen is that a boatload of high school kids race right over to star*ucks to buy their sweetened, calorie ladened, over priced crap drinks, and damned if I understand why mommy and daddy pay for it.

[Idaho_Cowboy]

Did they factor in energy drinks? That's all I see youngsters drinking anymore.