{"id":2035,"date":"2014-02-19T12:08:05","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T15:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=2035"},"modified":"2014-02-19T12:08:05","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T15:08:05","slug":"study-3-out-of-4-youth-consume-caffeinated-beverages-each-day-but-tastes-are-shifting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2014\/02\/19\/2035\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: 3 out of 4 Youth Consume Caffeinated Beverages Each Day – But Tastes Are Shifting"},"content":{"rendered":"

There appears to have been a significant shift over the past decade\u00a0in what young people are choosing as their “drink of choice”\u00a0when it comes to caffeinated beverages.\u00a0While it’s safe to say that soda\u00a0 (or “Pop,” for those of us from\u00a0the Upper Midwest) won’t become extinct on grocery shelves any time soon, there clearly appears to be a trend among young people towards energy drinks and\u00a0the\u00a0flavored coffees offered by Starbucks and any number of smaller coffee houses.<\/p>\n

It doesn’t appear, however, that this apparent shift in\u00a0what young people are drinking\u00a0is resulting in any widespread increase (or decrease, for that matter) in caffeine intake.<\/p>\n

That’s the bottom line of an article in the March edition of\u00a0Pediatrics<\/em>, “Trends in Caffeine Intake Among US Children and Adolescents<\/a>,” authored by Amy M. Branum, Lauren M. Rossen, and Kenneth\u00a0Schoendorf of the National Center for Health Statistics.<\/p>\n

Branum et al set out to\u00a0describe trends in caffeine intake over the past decade among US children, adolescents and young adults, using 24-hour dietary recall data from the 1999-2010 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey<\/a> (NHANES).\u00a0 The authors also looked at\u00a0the proportion of caffeine consumption attributable to different beverages, including soda, energy drinks, and tea.<\/p>\n

What they discovered was that approximately 73% of children and adolescents consumed caffeine on a given day. From 1999 to 2010, there were no significant trends in\u00a0average caffeine intake overall; however, caffeine intake did decrease among 2- to 11-year-olds and among Mexican-American Children.\u00a0 Soda accounted for the majority of caffeine intake, but this contribution declined sharply from 62% to 38% over this period.\u00a0\u00a0Coffee accounted for 10% of\u00a0\u00a0caffeine intake in 1999-2000 but more than doubled to nearly 24% of intake in 2009-2010.<\/p>\n

Though energy drinks did not exist in 1999-2000, they accounted for nearly\u00a06% of caffeine intake in 2009-2010.<\/p>\n

As new data roll in,\u00a0nutritionists and public health experts will be watching closely to see if these new trends have any impact on\u00a0overall caffeine intake among American youth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There appears to have been a significant shift over the past decade\u00a0in what young people are choosing as their “drink of choice”\u00a0when it comes to caffeinated beverages.\u00a0While it’s safe to say that soda\u00a0 (or “Pop,” for those of us from\u00a0the Upper Midwest) won’t become extinct on grocery shelves any time soon, there clearly appears to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}