Rethink your Drink

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Rethink your Drink

• A Soda Free Summer Starts Now!

Suzanne Bogert, MS, RD, Project Director
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Obesity Rates are Climbing in America

• Adult obesity has doubled since 1980
• Since 1990 rates have increased in every state
• 1990 2006

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Trend Sweetened Drink Consumption
ml/day
(Jacobson, 2001)
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• 1993 Energy from beverages added to, and did
  not displace, energy consumed in other forms
• De Castro, 1993

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• 1996 Daily calories higher on days when an
  energy-containing beverage was consumed at lunch.
  

Mattes, 1996
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1999 Daily Calories increase with amount of
soda consumed
CSFII 1994 Harnack L., 1999
Soda consumption
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2000 Soda is largest source of added sweeteners
for children
Soft Drinks
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2001 For each additional serving of sweetened
beverage consumed, the risk of overweight
increased by 60
Ludwig, 2001
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Health at What Cost?
McDonalds Food/Drink Options
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Health at What Cost?

• 1 teaspoon of sugar 4 grams
• A 20 ounce Coca-cola has 68 grams of sugar
• How many teaspoons is that?
• 17 teaspoons!
• (See Calculating How much Sugar is in a
  Container)

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Health at What Cost?

• The average person consumes 175 pounds of sugar
  per year carbonated soft drinks are the single
  biggest source
• (See Sugar Shockers)
• Soda drinkers consume more calories overall than
  those who do not
• Soda drinkers have poorer bone density which may
  lead to osteoporosis
• Soda drinkers have more cavities
• High Calories versus Low Nutrition

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Health at What Cost?

• To burn off the calories in a 20 oz soda
• - Walk 3 miles in 45 minutes
• - Play 40 minutes of vigorous basketball
• - Bicycle vigorously for 22 minutes\
• Subtracting one 20 oz soda a day from your diet
  for a year, all else being equal, can result in
  losing 25 extra pounds!

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Healthier Options

• Tap water
• Bottled waters
• Seltzer waters
• Fat-free or low-fat milk (plain and flavored)
• 100 fruit juices in limited amounts
• Unsweetened tea and coffee
• (See LADWP handout)

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FAQS about Beverages

• Is bottled water better than tap water?
• Is diet soda better than regular soda?
• Are energy drinks healthy beverage options?
• Does sugar cause diabetes?
• How does juice compare to soda?
• Does soda make people fat?
• Does soda harm teeth?
• (See Frequently Asked Questions About
  Sugar)

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Take a Vacation! Go Soda Free!

• Soda Free Summer Commitment card
• A SMART Goal
• Three months 5 or more pounds
• Currently Soda Free Go Added Sugar Free
• (See Show me the Sugar!)

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Questions? Comments?THANK YOU!

• Contact Information
• Suzanne Bogert, MS, RD
• Project Director
• Network for a Healthy California, Los Angeles
  Region
• 213.351.7875
• sbogert_at_ph.lacounty.gov

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