Beverage intake and obesity in Australian children

Nutrition & Metabolism

Table 2 Association between weight status and beverage consumption

	Healthy/underweight				Overweight/obese
	2-3 years	4-8 years	9-13 years	14-16 years	2-3 years	4-8 years	9-13 years	14-16 years
SSB
% consuming	31	42	55	52	40	45	56	52
Mean daily intake per consumer [g]	339 ± 308	379 ± 257	545 ± 387	649 ± 465	345 ± 277	422 ± 274	527 ± 351	646 ± 516
Non Nutritive SSB
% consuming	4	5	7	9	3	9	11	15
Mean daily intake per consumer [g]	214 ± 149	290 ± 207	418 ± 274	460 ± 294	230 ± 114	253 ± 140	388 ± 296	554 ± 261
Fruit Juices
% consuming	41	38	37	37	32	39	32	36
Mean daily intake per consumer [g]	215 ± 163	270 ± 199	322 ± 219	365 ± 240	206 ± 159	281 ± 182	323 ± 188	400 ± 276

1. One day food intake data collected via 24 hour recall at personal interview; population weights applied; n = 3477 for healthy/underweight; n = 1010 for overweight/obese; n = 1325 for healthy/underweight juice consumers; n = 357 for overweight/obese juice consumers; n = 1579 for healthy/underweight sugar sweetened beverage consumers; n = 492 for overweight/obese sugar sweetened beverage consumers; n = 210 for healthy/underweight non nutritive sweetened beverage consumers; n = 104 for overweight/obese non nutritive sweetened beverage consumers;
2 Weight status classified according to standard definitions published by the International Obesity Task Force [IOTF] [Cole et al. 2000; Cole et al.2007].
3 Includes sugar sweetened soft drinks, cordials, fruit drinks, flavoured waters, energy drinks, iced tea and sports drinks.
4 Includes non nutritive sweetened fruit drinks, soft drinks, cordials, flavoured waters and energy drinks.

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