Reducing sugar-sweetened beverage consumption by providing caloric information: How black adolescents alter their purchases and whether the effects persist

S.N. Bleich, C.L. Barry, T.L. Gary-Webb and Bradley Herring

American Journal of Public Health, 2014, vol. 104, issue 12, 2417-2424

Abstract: Objectives. We examined the ways in which adolescents altered the type and size of their purchases of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs), together with whether the effects persisted after removing caloric information signs in stores.

Keywords: sugar intake, administration and dosage; adolescent; African American; beverage; consumer health information; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2; economics; ethnology; female; health promotion; human; male; obesity; procedures; statistics and numerical data; sugar intake; tax, Adolescent; African Americans; Beverages; Consumer Health Information; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2; Dietary Sucrose; Female; Health Promotion; Humans; Male; Obesity; Taxes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2014.302150

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