Most brands sell juice boxes and pouches in many different sizes. This handout explains how to pick the best size option for your child’s age.
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Most brands sell juice boxes and pouches in many different sizes. This handout, translated in Spanish, explains how to pick the best size option for your child’s age.
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Rudd Center researchers assessed the sales, nutrition, and marketing of children’s drinks, defined as drinks that companies market as intended for children to consume (in marketing to parents and/or directly to children). Utilizing the same methods as previous FACTS reports, researchers collected data on the nutrition content and on-package marketing of children’s drinks by category, company, and brand. We report advertising spending in all media (including TV, magazines, and digital) and exposure to TV advertising by preschoolers (2-5 years) and children (6-11 years) using syndicated market research data, and assess changes in the past five years when possible. We also identified children’s drinks that met expert recommendations for healthier beverage choices for children.
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Fruit drinks and flavored waters that contain added sugars and/or low-calorie (diet) sweeteners dominated sales of drinks intended for children in 2018, making up 62% of the $2.2 billion in total children’s drink sales, according to Children’s Drink FACTS 2019, a new report from the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity at the University of Connecticut.
Researchers assessed the top-selling brands of children’s drinks—including 34 sweetened drinks (fruit drinks, flavored waters, and drink mixes) and 33 drinks without added sweeteners (100% juice, juicewater blends, and one sparkling water)—analyzing sales, advertising spending, children’s exposure to TV advertising, nutritional content, and product packaging. Findings indicate one-third of all children’s fruit drinks contained 16 grams or more of sugar per serving— equivalent to 4 teaspoons, which is more than half of the maximum amount of added sugars experts recommend for children per day.
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Sugary Drinks
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CSCH Program Manager Helene Marcy interviews CSCH Co-Director Sandra Chafouleas and CSCH Steering Committee Member Marlene Schwartz about their work developing the WellSAT WSCC Tool
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This flyer, created in partnership with the Connecticut Department of Public Health, Connecticut Office of Child Health, and the Public Health Accreditation Board, explains in Spanish how to promote healthy eating and get children moving in early child care centers participating in CACFP.
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This flyer, created in partnership with the Connecticut Department of Public Health, Connecticut Office of Child Health, and the Public Health Accreditation Board, explains how to promote healthy eating and get children moving in early child care centers participating in CACFP.
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The Farmington Valley Podcast Network sits down with Sally Mancini, Marlene Schwartz, and Tatiana Andreyeva to discuss the regulations on food in school as well as the state of a sugar sweetened beverage tax in Connecticut.
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Sugary Drink Taxes
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Tatiana Andreyeva
Host Jenna Liut welcomes Dr. Marlene Schwartz, Director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity at the University of Connecticut, back on the show to discuss the article she co-authored with Dr. Kelly Brownell and Dr. Lee Miller that was recently published in the American Journal of Public Health. The article, “Primer on US Food and Nutrition Policy and Public Health,” explores the critical and inextricable link between agriculture and public health and demonstrates the need for policies that simultaneously address hunger, obesity and the effects of agricultural production on the environment.
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Full citation: Pearl RL, Himmelstein MS, Puhl RM, Wadden TA, Wojtanowski AC, Foster GD. Weight bias internalization in a commercial weight management sample: prevalence and correlates. Obes Sci Pract. 2019;5(4):342-353. Published 2019 Jul 11. https://doi.org/10.1002/osp4.354