Sugar Sweetened Beverage Consumption, TV Viewing Hours, and Bmi of Adolescent Boys and Girls

Bardhar Pallavi

Abstract

Sugar Sweetened Beverage Consumption, TV Viewing Hours, and Bmi of Adolescent Boys and Girls

Objectives

To identify an association between Sugar Sweetened Beverage consumption, TV viewing hours and BMI status of adolescents.

Methods

A cross sectional study was conducted including (600) adolescent aged 13-15 years. Sugar Sweetened beverages (categorized on NHANES III and NHANES 1999-2004 basis), dietary and milk intake, TV viewing hours, socio-demographic profile was assessed through 24-hour dietary recall and questionnaire method. Computed BMI was compared with WHO (2007) classification.

Results

With age adolescents (600) consumed more SSB (>600-1000 ml/day i.e. 3-4 times /week) spending 2-3 hours /day watching TV, belonged to joint family (60%) and (54%) vegetarians. With increase in TV viewing hours (2-5 hours /day), prevalence of daily soft drink consumption was reported among all the (300) adolescent girls (100%). Similarly, Sugar Sweetened Beverages consumption was double than (300) boys (312±123.33 k.cal/day; p≤0.05 for boys and 613±116.37 k.cal /day for girls; p≤0.05) and lesser milk intake. Highly qualified parent’s (i.e.30.16% post graduate mothers and 16.66% fathers) adolescent boys and girls consumed more Sugar Sweetened Beverages (657.42±98.65 ml/ day,p≤0.05 for boys and 579.76± 226.17 ml/day ; p≤0.05 for girls). While 50% of working mother’s adolescents spent 2-3 hours in watching TV (p≤0.05) and consumed more SSB (649.03 ± 176.22 ml / day ; p≤0.05 for boys and 597.68 ±221.41 ml/day ; p≤ 0.05 for girls).TV viewing hours were more among obese girls (3.15 hours /day; p≤0.05).