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Children and adolescents who drink soda may be depriving
themselves of several important vitamins and minerals, results of a new
survey suggest.
The researchers note that soda consumption
among children and adolescents rose 41%
between 1989-1991 and 1994-1995, mostly displacing milk and juice, the
leading sources of many vitamins and minerals in the American diet.
The results are based on data from more than 4,000
children aged 2 to 17 years.
Among children aged 2 to 5:
In those aged 12 to 17:
- 63%
of boy and 49% of
girls drank milk
- 68% of
boys and 63% of girls drank soda
Soda drinkers were less likely to get the recommended
levels of:
Archives of Pediatric
and Adolescent Medicine November, 2000; 154: 1148-1152
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