Sugar-sweetened juices causing kids to go plump
Two to 4 year olds who regularly drink sugar-sweetened beverages between meals are more than twice as likely to be overweight, compared to other children.
Canadian researchers examined the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages among more than 1,900 children living in Quebec, Canada, who were born in 1998. They found that almost 7 percent of the children who didn't drink sugar-sweetened beverages between meals were overweight at 4 1/2 years of age, compared to just over 15 percent of children who drank them regularly (four to six times or more per week). The study was published inside the Journal of the American Dietetic Association.
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