Sugar-sweetened Beverage Consumption Among U.S. Adults, 2011-2014

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• Personal Author:
  Rosinger, Asher ; Herrick, Kirsten ; Gahche, Jaime ; Park, Sohyun
• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)
• Description:
  Sugar-sweetened beverages are a major contributor of calories and added sugars to diets of U.S. adults (1). Studies have found that sugar-sweetened beverage consumption has been linked to weight gain, metabolic syndrome, dental caries, and type 2 diabetes in adults (2-4). The 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend reducing added sugars consumption to less than 10% of total calories per day and, specifically, to choose beverages with no added sugars (1). This report presents results for consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages among U.S. adults aged 20 and over for 2011-2014 by sex, age, and race and Hispanic origin.
  
  Key findings
  
  Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
  
  Approximately one-half of U.S. adults consumed at least one sugar-sweetened beverage on a given day.
  
  Men consumed an average 179 kilocalories (kcal) from sugar-sweetened beverages, which contributed 6.9% of total daily caloric intake. Women consumed an average 113 kcal from sugar-sweetened beverages, which contributed 6.1% of total caloric intake.
  
  Young adults had the highest mean intake and percentage of daily calories from sugar- sweetened beverages relative to older adults.
  
  Non-Hispanic Asian men and women consumed the least calories and the lowest percentage of total calories from sugar-sweetened beverages compared with non-Hispanic white, non-Hispanic black, and Hispanic men and women.
  
  Suggested citation: Rosinger A, Herrick K, Gahche J, Park S. Sugar-sweetened beverage consumption among U.S. adults, 2011-2014. NCHS data brief, no 270. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. 2017.
  
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• Subjects:
  Adults Beverages Dietary Sucrose Nutrition Surveys Sweetening Agents
• Keywords:
  National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, NHANES, calories, kcal
• Source:
  National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
• Series:
  NCHS Data Briefs
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report ; Statistics
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• CIO:
  National Center for Health Statistics
• Topic:
  Health Statistics
• Pages in Document:
  8 pdf pages
• Issue:
  270
• Collection(s):
  National Center for Health Statistics
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