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Teens reduction expected to buy sweetened drinks with warning labels
- Updated: September 9, 2016
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Washington: Teenagers are reduction expected to squeeze soothing drinks and other sweetened beverages that embody health warning labels, according to a new study.
The investigate led by researchers during University of Pennsylvania in a US is among a initial to inspect how warning labels on sweetened drinks change teens.
The investigate builds on progressing investigate that showed that relatives were reduction expected to name sweetened beverages for their kids when labels warning about a dangers of combined sugarine – that can minister to obesity, diabetes and tooth spoil – were present.
Researchers used an online consult to sign a libation selections of some-more than 2,000 participants aged 12-18 and from different backgrounds.
The beverages enclosed possibly no tag during all, or one of 5 warning labels – one featuring calorie content, and 4 displaying a movement of warning text.
Overall, 77 per cent of participants who saw no tag pronounced they would name a sweetened splash in a suppositious choice task.
Warning labels indicated that expenditure of sweetened drinks contributes to obesity, diabetes, and tooth decay, with slight variations in diction – such as emphasising that these conditions are “preventable diseases” or clarifying that immoderate sweetened drinks contributes to “type 2 diabetes.”
Depending on a specific phrasing of a warning labels, participants were 8 to 16 per cent reduction expected to name sweetened beverages when health warning labels were benefaction compared to no label.
The researchers note that a warning labels also contributed to teenagers’ bargain of a potentially disastrous effects on health of frequently immoderate sweetened beverages, with participants observation a labels indicating they were some-more expected to know that these drinks do not minister to a healthy lifestyle.
Additionally, a infancy of participants (62 per cent) pronounced they would support a warning tag process for sweetened drinks.
“The change of warning labels on a purchasing intentions of teenagers in this investigate highlights a need for nourishment information during a indicate of squeeze to assistance people make healthier choices,” pronounced Eric M VanEpps, a postdoctoral researcher during a University of Pennsylvania.
The investigate was published in a American Journal of Preventive Medicine.