Skip to main page content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Dot gov

The .gov means it’s official.
Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site.

Https

The site is secure.
The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely.

Access keys NCBI Homepage MyNCBI Homepage Main Content Main Navigation
. 2018 Dec;108(12):1659-1665.
doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2018.304691. Epub 2018 Oct 25.

Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Attitudes and Consumption During the First 1000 Days of Life

Jennifer A Woo Baidal  1 , Kayla Morel  1 , Kelsey Nichols  1 , Erin Elbel  1 , Nalini Charles  1 , Jeff Goldsmith  1 , Ling Chen  1 , Elsie Taveras  1
Affiliations

Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Attitudes and Consumption During the First 1000 Days of Life

Jennifer A Woo Baidal et al. Am J Public Health. 2018 Dec.

Abstract

Objectives: To examine the relationship of parental sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) attitudes with SSB consumption during the first 1000 days of life-gestation to age 2 years.

Methods: We studied 394 Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)-enrolled families during the first 1000 days of life in northern Manhattan, New York, in 2017. In regression models, we assessed cross-sectional relationships of parental SSB attitude scores with habitual daily parent SSB calories and infant SSB consumption, adjusting for demographic and socioeconomic characteristics.

Results: Each point higher parental SSB attitude score was associated with lower parental SSB consumption (-14.5 median kcals; 95% confidence interval [CI] = -22.6, -6.4). For infants, higher parental SSB attitude score was linked with lower odds of infant SSB consumption (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] = 0.84; 95% CI = 0.71, 0.99), and adjustment for socioeconomic factors slightly attenuated results (AOR = 0.85; 95% CI = 0.71, 1.02).

Conclusions: During the first 1000 days of life, greater negativity in parental attitudes toward SSB consumption was associated with fewer parental calories consumed from SSBs and lower likelihood of infant SSB consumption. Public Health Implications. Parental attitudes toward SSBs should be targeted in future childhood obesity interventions during pregnancy and infancy.

PubMed Disclaimer

Figures

FIGURE 1—
FIGURE 1—
Parental Attitudes Toward Sugar-Sweetened Beverage (SSB) Consumption During Pregnancy and Infancy: New York City First 1,000 Days Study, 2017 Note. Data are from 394 families enrolled in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children during the first 1000 days of life.
FIGURE 2—
FIGURE 2—
Habitual Parental and Infant Daily Sugar-Sweetened Beverage (SSB) and Other Beverage Caloric Consumption: New York City First 1,000 Days Study, 2017 Note. Data are from 394 parents and 281 infants during the first 1000 days of life.
See this image and copyright information in PMC

Comment in

Similar articles

See all similar articles

Cited by

See all "Cited by" articles

References

    1. Non-communicable Disease Risk Factor Collaboration. Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128.9 million children, adolescents, and adults. Lancet. 2017;390(10113):2627–2642. - PMC - PubMed
    1. Ogden CL, Carroll MD, Lawman HG et al. Trends in obesity prevalence among children and adolescents in the United States, 1988–1994 through 2013–2014. JAMA. 2016;315(21):2292–2299. - PMC - PubMed
    1. Hales CM, Carroll MD, Fryar CD, CL Ogden. Prevalence of Obesity Among Adults and Youth: United States, 2015–2016. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics; 2017. NCHS Data Brief no. 288. - PubMed
    1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Vital signs: obesity among low-income, preschool-aged children—United States, 2008–2011. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2013;62(31):629–634. - PMC - PubMed
    1. Black RE, Victora CG, Walker SP et al. Maternal and child undernutrition and overweight in low-income and middle-income countries. Lancet. 2013;382(9890):427–451. - PubMed

Publication types

MeSH terms

LinkOut - more resources