Relationship between Soft Drink Consumption and Obesity in 9–11 Years Old Children in a Multi-National Study

Nutrients

Victor Matsudo¹  Jean-Philippe Chaput²  Mark S. Tremblay²  Martyn Standage³  Mikael Fogelholm⁴  Catrine Tudor-Locke⁵  Vincent Onywera⁶  Estelle V. Lambert⁷  Jose Maia⁸  Gang Hu⁹  Catherine M. Champagne⁹  Peter T. Katzmarzyk⁹  Stephanie T. Broyles⁹  Timothy Olds^1,10  Olga L. Sarmiento^1,11  Rebecca Kuriyan^1,12  Anura Kurpad^1,12  Pei Zhao^1,13 

[1] Centro de Estudos do Laboratório de Aptidão Física de São Caetano do Sul, Sao Paulo 09520-320, Brazil;Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Ottawa, ON K1H 8L1, Canada;Department for Health, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, UK;Department of Food and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki 00014, Finland;Department of Kinesiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA;Department of Recreation Management and Exercise Science, Kenyatta University, Nairobi 00100, Kenya;Division of Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Newlands, Cape Town 7700, South Africa;Faculdade de Desporto, University of Porto, Rua Dr. Plácido Costa, 91, Porto 4200-450, Portugal;Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70808, USA;School of Health Sciences, Sansom Institute, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia;School of Medicine, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota 11001000, Colombia;St. Johns Research Institute, Bangalore 560034, India;Tianjin Women’s and Children’s Health Center, Tianjin 300070, China;

关键词: pediatric;    overweight;    global;    sugar-sweetened beverages;   

DOI  :  10.3390/nu8120770

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The purpose of this study was to determine the association between regular (sugar containing) and diet (artificially sweetened) soft drink consumption and obesity in children from 12 countries ranging in levels of economic and human development. The sample included 6162 children aged 9–11 years. Information on soft drink consumption was obtained using a food frequency questionnaire. Percentage body fat (%BF) was estimated by bio-electrical impedance analysis, body mass index (BMI) z-scores were computed using World Health Organization reference data, and obesity was defined as a BMI > +2 standard deviations (SD). Multi-level models were used to investigate trends in BMI z-scores, %BF and obesity across categories of soft drink consumption. Age, sex, study site, parental education and physical activity were included as covariates. There was a significant linear trend in BMI z-scores across categories of consumption of regular soft drinks in boys (p = 0.049), but not in girls; there were no significant trends in %BF or obesity observed in either boys or girls. There was no significant linear trend across categories of diet soft drink consumption in boys, but there was a graded, positive association in girls for BMI z-score (p = 0.0002) and %BF (p = 0.0001). Further research is required to explore these associations using longitudinal research designs.

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