2023-07-29 15:00:00
“Soft drink consumption is associated with weight gain in children and adolescents, but little is known regarding the link between soft drink consumption and the prevalence of overweight and obesity in young people,” said Japanese and English scientists. That is why they decided to carry out a study, the results of which were published in the journal JAMA Network Open.
Overweight, obesity: prevalence among young people ranged from 3.3% to 64%
For the purposes of the work, they used data from three cohorts of 405,528 adolescents attending school in 107 countries, of which 65 were low- and middle-income countries and 42 were high-income countries. The searches covered a global study of student health in schools (2009-2017), one of the European studies on health behaviors in school-aged children (2017-2018) as well as a US behavioral survey. at-risk young people (2019).
The authors found that the prevalence of daily soda consumption was associated with the prevalence of overweight and obesity. In detail, the prevalence of overweight and obesity among students ranged from 3.3% in Cambodia to 64% in Niue (an island in the South Pacific). “The prevalence of adolescents consuming soft drinks at least once a day ranged from 3.3% in Iceland to 79.6% in Niue,” can we read in the searches.
Reducing soda consumption to “curb the overweight and obesity pandemic”
“Consistent with evidence from prospective cohort studies and randomized trials, our results confirm that reducing soft drink consumption should be a priority approach to stem the pandemic of overweight and obesity among adolescents” , concluded the team.
As a reminder, obese or overweight people are more at risk of developing cardiovascular pathologies (hypertension, cholesterol, myocardial infarction, stroke, phlebitis), chronic diseases (type 2 diabetes, osteoarthritis, sleep apnea, gout) and cancers (breast, esophagus, colon, prostate, pancreas). “In addition to physical complications, obesity can be a source of psychological problems. Indeed, curves are not always easy to assume. Overweight people therefore sometimes have impaired self-esteem and suffer from discrimination”, specified health insurance.
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