{"id":883,"date":"2014-03-26T14:56:44","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T19:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=883"},"modified":"2014-04-06T15:17:06","modified_gmt":"2014-04-06T20:17:06","slug":"availability-of-sugar-sweetened-beverages-in-schools-increases-odds-of-teenage-obesity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/availability-of-sugar-sweetened-beverages-in-schools-increases-odds-of-teenage-obesity\/","title":{"rendered":"Availability of sugar-sweetened beverages in schools increases odds of teenage obesity <img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_882\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/softdrinks_mini.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-882\" class=\"size-full wp-image-882\" alt=\"A new study found that students who attended schools where sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) were available, and who reported consuming more than one SSB in the previous day, had a 60% greater chance of being obese. (Credit: Damian Ayers via flickr.com)\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/softdrinks_mini.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/softdrinks_mini.jpg 450w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/softdrinks_mini-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/softdrinks_mini-444x300.jpg 444w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-882\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A new study found that students who attended schools where sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) were available, and who reported consuming more than one SSB in the previous day, had a 60% greater chance of being obese. (Credit: Damian Ayers,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/omad\/4944642867\/sizes\/m\/in\/photostream\/\" target=\"_blank\">flickr.com<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Previous research has shown that students drink more sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) when they attend a school where they are available.<\/p>\n<p>A new study that surveyed 11,385 students from 174 secondary schools in British Columbia &#8211; 43% of which reported access to SSBs. \u00a0The researchers found that students who attend schools where SSBs were available have a greater chance of being obese. They also found those students who reported consuming more than one SSB in the previous day had a 60% greater chance of being obese.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ijbnpa.org\/content\/11\/1\/29\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in the\u00a0<em>International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity<\/em>\u00a0on\u00a0<strong>March 26, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Names and affiliations of selected<\/strong><strong>\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/spph.ubc.ca\/person\/louise-masse\/\" target=\"_blank\">Louise C. M\u00e2sse<\/a>, University of British Columbia<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previous research has shown that students drink more sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) when they attend a school where they are available. A new study that surveyed 11,385 students from 174 secondary schools in British Columbia &#8211; 43% of which reported access to SSBs. \u00a0The researchers found that students who attend schools where SSBs were available have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":882,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[51,53,650],"class_list":["post-883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-health","tag-medicine","tag-nutrition"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/softdrinks_mini.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-ef","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":885,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions\/885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}