Adolescents Drink More Sugar-Sweetened Beverages When They're Available at Home

Sugar-sweetened beverages represent the largest source of sugar in a U.S. adolescent's diet. The 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, endorsed by the American Academy of Pediatrics, recommend reducing added sugars to <10% of total daily caloric intake and limiting consumption of beverages with added sugars.

Researchers studied the association between availability of sugar-sweetened beverages at home and consumption of such beverages and whether this association varied with availability of sugar-sweetened beverages in or near school. The study was a secondary analysis of data from a cross-sectional, Internet-based survey of parent-adolescent (age, 12–17 years) dyads. Analyses were adjusted for a variety of characteristics (e.g., age, body-m…