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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"SSB Consumption"”.
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Water and Life. A Cross-Sectional Study on Determinants of Beverage Consumption and Water Access in One Tribal Community
… two decades has consistently linked increased consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) to the obesity epidemic contributing to a public health crisis all over the United States. Native Americans, among other minority groups, suffer obesity disproportionately from the rest of the US …
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Trends and Outcomes of a School-Based Campaign to Reduce Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption Among Racially and Ethnically Diverse Students in Middle School
Reducing sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) consumption has been identified as a chronic disease prevention strategy in children and adolescents (Muth et al., 2019; USDA & HSS, 2015) and promoting healthier alternative beverage options has become an important focus for public health policy and …
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Understanding Adolescents' Sugary Beverage Consumption: A Review and Application of the Theory of Planned Behavior
… as well. Excessive sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) consumption is suggested to be a contributor to youth overweight and obesity and other cardiometabolic risk factors. Parents, although probably not readily admitted by adolescents, are known to influence youth's dietary beliefs and practices. …
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Impact of Physical Activity and Sugar Sweetened Beverage Consumption on Arterial Stiffness
… link between sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) and poor cardiovascular health has been identified. The majority of previous research relating to arterial stiffness has involved studying older populations. However, few studies have examined college students. The purpose of this study is to …
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A Brief Intervention to Reduce Sugar Consumption on College Campuses
Background: Research suggests that high sugar consumption is linked to a variety of health complications, including cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Previous research also suggests that adolescents and young adults (ages 16-19) are the highest consumers of sugar and SSB's. Previous …
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Evaluating the Barbados SSB tax: a mixed-method natural experimental study
Consuming sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) has been associated with increased rates of obesity and type 2 diabetes, making SSBs an increasingly popular target for policy interventions such as taxation. SSB taxes are intended to reduce SSB consumption, and several national evaluations have suggested …
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Pilot Findings from a Randomized Controlled Trial Targeting Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Behaviors
… literacy and increased sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) consumption are two broad public health concerns facing the United States. For example, it is estimated that 90 million Americans have insufficient literacy skills (IOMC, 2004) and low health literacy is associated with poorer health outcomes …
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Measuring Healthy Beverage Intake and Exploring Opportunities to Improve Beverage Consumption
Background: Poor beverage consumption habits pose significant health concerns. Delivering health behavior change interventions via social media is an emerging area of health research and may provide a promising way to minimize barriers such as cost, intervention delivery time, and access. However, …
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Three essays on nutrition and health: sugar-sweetened beverages, postpartum military wellness, and online grocery shopping
… affect children's sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) consumption. Using this framework, the study evaluates the Kids SIPsmartER (KSS) program, a school-based intervention designed to reduce SSB consumption among middle-school students. KSS directly targeted students (KSS-S) through health …
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A qualitative study of adolescent views of sugar sweetened beverage taxes
… purpose was to explore the role of habit in SSB consumption. Three focus groups were conducted at a suburban Detroit middle school with 22 students. Findings suggest that students understand short-and long-term advantages and disadvantages of sugarsweetened beverages and personal and economic …
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Dietary Intake Changes in Response to a Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Reduction Trial for SNAP Participants and Nonparticipants
… a reduction in sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) consumption. Adult participants (n=146) from Southwest Virginia were enrolled in a 6-month, community-based trial, SIPsmartER. Participants provided SNAP enrollment status and 3 24-hour dietary recalls at baseline and 6-months. Dietary …
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The Role of Health Literacy in Intervention Engagement, Teach Back Performance, and Perceptions of Intervention Components
… on reducing sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) consumption in Southwest Virginians. The primary aims of this study were to examine the associations between health literacy status and 1) number of rounds of teach back needed to reinforce key concepts, 2) proportion of correct answers on the …
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Implicit and explicit attitudes: an examination of the efficacy of anti-sugar public health campaigns
… with increases in sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) consumption necessitating SSB-related taxation. The purpose of this study is to examine whether social-marketing efforts, in the form of an anti-sugar public health campaign (PHC), influence consumer attitudes toward SSBs. In this context, …
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Development and feasibility testing of a theory-based intervention to reduce sugar-sweetened beverage consumption among Central Appalachian adolescents
… adolescents consume sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) excessively, which is associated with childhood obesity, dental caries, and increased risk for cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. Interventions spanning the socio-ecological model (i.e., intrapersonal, interpersonal, environmental, …
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The Influence of Child and Parent Health Literacy Status on Health Outcomes from a Childhood Obesity Treatment Program
… and vegetable intake, sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB), minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity, and screen time did not differ by health literacy levels at baseline. Among children, improvements in the NVS was significantly correlated with decreases in SSB consumption (r = -.275, p < …
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Validity and Reliability of the BEVQ-15 in Children and Adolescents
… (AS), in the form of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB), may contribute to weight gain and obesity development in children and adolescents. Due to the negative health implications of SSB consumption, a valid and reliable brief beverage intake assessment tool is needed for children and adolescents to …
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Using the Theory of Planned Behavior to Understand Drink Choices in Southwest Virginians
… respectively, from sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) (Brownell et al., 2009). Also, a high intake of SSB has been related to many adverse health outcomes including type 2 diabetes, obesity, dental carries and heart disease (Malik, Schulze, & Hu, 2006; Vartanian, Schwartz, & Brownell, 2007; …
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Exploring the Reach and Representativeness of Participants Enrolled in a Behavioral Intervention Targeting Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption
… aimed at decreasing sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) consumption (SIPsmartER) as compared to matched contact control targeting improving physical activity (MoveMore). This community-based trial targets an 8-county region in SWVA. OBJECTIVES: Guided by the reach dimension of the RE-AIM framework, …
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Exploring Cross-Sectional Relationships between Health Literacy, Dietary Intake, Physical Activity, and Anthropometric/Biological Variables among Residents in Southwest Virginia
… Virginia with sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) consumption as the primary outcome. The primary aims of this cross-sectional study, using baseline Talking Health data, are to 1) examine correlations among health literacy and numeracy measures, namely the Newest Vital Sign (NVS), separated by …
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Application of The Theory of Planned Behavior in a Randomized Control Trial Targeting Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Intake and Physical Activity in Southwest Virginia
… behaviors, including sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) intake and physical activity (PA). The TPB assumes that behavioral intentions are the most important determinant of behavior. Intentions are the function of individual's attitudes toward the behavior (these evaluations can be positive or …
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