Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption: Data, Research Findings, and Implications for Practice

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Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption: Data, Research findings and implications for
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Q1 (a). The selection criteria for the samples in the study was the private dwellers in urban and
rural areas whereas non-dwellers and those in very remote areas were excluded from the study.
Q1 (b). An elder member from the householder was nominated for interviewing for the
collection of data on behalf of children under 15 years.
Q1 (c). The potential limitation for data collection in (b) is the biases towards positive habit on
the intake of sugar-sweetened beverage consumption that could make the findings inaccurate.
Q1 (d). The Sugar-sweetened drinks are referred to sugar drinks, artificially added sugar that
includes the soft drinks, caffeinated energy drinks, cordials, and the sports drinks. (Australian
Bureau of Statistics, 2018).
Q1 (e). The definition for sugar-sweetened drinks excluded favored milk, fruit juices, hot tea or
coffee and those that are sugar-free which upon when taken reduces the chances of overweight
and obesity in children as opposed to sugar-sweetened drinks (World Health Organization,
2014).
Q2 (a). The daily consumption of sugar-sweetened drinks is slightly higher in male accounting
for 12.4% than late female adolescents (14-17 years) accounting for 11.9% (Australian Bureau of
Statistics, 2018).
Q2 (b). The rate of daily consumption of sugar-sweetened drinks was noted to increase with an
increase in age for both genders. Example, the age of 2-3 years had 4.1% while at 14-17 years
the consumption rate was 12.4%.
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Q2(c). The change in consumption rate is primarily accounted for in males where progressive
percentages in consumption are given at different age categories, in essence, 2-3 years is 4.1%,
4-8 years is 4.7%, 9-11 years is 5.3%, 12-13 years is 8%, while 14-17 years is 12.4%.
Q2 (d). The rate of daily consumption of sugar-sweetened products is higher among males than
females probably because males engage in more physical activities than females. For instance,
boys are involved in activities that require more energy; thus, their intake of sugar-sweetened
drinks is higher to compensate for the energy.
Q3 (a). The Journal article of Nutrition Education and behavior by Bartram and his colleagues is
a qualitative article because the central phenomenon is the children’s views and the inductive
content analysis used which maps symbolic data into a matrix (Battram et al., 2016). These
aspects are qualitative.
Q3 (b). From the results, l think lack of awareness of the health impacts is not the main factor of
over-consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages since the author claims there is a high level of
awareness (Battram et al., 2016).
Q3(c). Factors influencing over-consumption are parental control practices, advertisements,
accessibility, and children’s consumption patterns.
Q3 (d). The conflict of interest is that the author undertook an invited research talk, which was
sponsored by PepsiCo at the Dietitians of the Canada conference. The travel and accommodation
funds were given for the development and delivery of the talk although other authors have not
reported the conflict of interest. This section is significant to be added since it gives insights for
future research as well as encouraging ethical behavior in research.
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Q4 (a). The article done by Lundeen et al. (2018) is a quantitative study since the multinomial
logistic regression models used for analysis are only applicable to quantitative studies that
majorly compare the ratios in numeric data.
Q4 (b). The article does not support that the main reason for over-consumption is lack of
knowledge since the findings indicated that adolescent and parental health conditions knowledge
that SSB intake ranged from 60.7 to 80.4 % respectively.
Q4(c). The common theme concerning the main factor influencing the consumption of SSB in
children and adolescents was parental control practices.
Q4 (d). Since the parents take double amounts of SSB compared to children, in essence, nearly
31% of adolescents consumed SSBs ≥1 time/day, and 43.2% of parents consumed SSBs ≥2
times/day, l recommend that government should overtax the SSB products to discourage
consumption (Le Bodo, Y., Paquette, M. C., & De Wals, P. (2016). The government should also
regulate the production of SSB products as well as encourage diet drinks that are free from large
quantities of sugar.
Q5 (a). Quantitative research hypothesis
H0: A higher rate of consumption of SSB is among the adults compared to adolescents.
H1: A lower rate of consumption of SSB is among the adults compared to adolescents.
The variables would rate consumption of SSB in adults and adolescents measured as
percentages.
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