It is known that soft drink consumption has increased markedly in recent decades. These are included in the diet of children becoming more frequent and early.
This type of drinks, could be a key factor in childhood obesity by virtue of its high content of added sugar and low capacity of fullness, which makes this consumption is not compensated by reducing the intake at the next meal.
The severity of the data on the rising rate of childhood obesity requires health professionals to analyze in detail all the dietary habits of the old own, besides the learned borne by parents or grandparents, to ascertain their involvement in the development of obesity. It is known and recognized evidence of an association between a low or no breakfast and obesity, while altering the hormonal regulation and the natural mechanisms of satiety.
It is suspected that sugary drinks such as soda or juice, contributing in part to obesity.
It stands to reason that excess fat products, sweet and savory, all very energetic, coupled with the lack of fruits and vegetables, typical behavior in childhood, play for childhood obesity. It is also suspected that soft drinks sweetened drinks or juices type contribute in part to obesity, but only in recent years, large epidemiological studies have begun to investigate this association.
Adding calories
A bottle of 20-ounce cola contains: carbonated water, natural and artificial flavors, a little caffeine and about 17 teaspoons of sugar, which together have 250 calories.
Today, with the numbers of overweight in children and adolescents, soft drinks do not seem so harmless. Nobody believes that soft drinks are the only cause of obesity among young people, but sugary drinks can definitely help pile on the pounds, says Melinda Sothern, an exercise physiologist and childhood obesity specialist from Louisiana State University. (Dr. Sothern is the co-author of Trim Kids (Children in shape), weight loss guide aimed at overweight children and their parents).
