{"id":50951,"date":"2011-06-22T01:00:09","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T06:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=50951"},"modified":"2011-06-21T13:40:14","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T18:40:14","slug":"teen-soda-consumption-is-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/06\/teen-soda-consumption-is-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen Soda Consumption is Down"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>There’s potentially good news in regards to teens and their soda consumption. In 2026, 24 percent of teens in the U.S. drank at least one soda on a daily basis, which was down from 29 percent the previous year.<\/p>\n

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention collected data on 11,429 high school students from across the country. Each of them filled out a questionnaire.<\/p>\n

When other sweetened drinks<\/a><\/strong> were considered, the teens who drank at least one of those drinks each day was raised to more than 60 percent. However, even with that sharp rise when considering all sweetened drinks, the number is down from 1999, when it was more than 75 percent.<\/p>\n

Now for the potentially bad news…<\/p>\n

Since awareness of the health dangers of sweetened drinks has risen over the years, some experts are concerned that teens’ knowledge may have skewed the results, since they could have been deceptive in their answers. Or I say, maybe the movement of removing soda from schools<\/a><\/strong> is working.<\/p>\n

That concern aside, here are some of the findings from the CDC report:<\/p>\n