The number of U.S. adults consuming sugar-sweetened beverages such as soft drinks, fruit drinks and punches has increased dramatically, UPI quoted researchers as saying. Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore examined changes over the past two decades in sugar-sweetened beverage consumption based on nationally representative survey data. The study, published in the January issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, found that sugar-sweetened beverages comprise a significant source of total daily beverage intake and are the largest source of beverage calories consumed daily. The percentage of sugar-sweetened beverage drinkers and per capita consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages was highest among African-Americans followed by Mexican-Americans, the study said.
