Poll: What’s the Best Way to Get Youths to Drink More Water?

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Water Promo FBWhat is the best way to get young people to drink more water?

That’s the question of a new poll on PreventObesity.net.

Answers range from removing local and state taxes on water to banning marketing of sugary drinks to kids to installing free water taps and water bottle-filling stations nationwide.

Among Latino youths, consumption of sugary drinks—soft drinks, sports drinks, fruit-flavored drinks, and other caloric but non-nutritious beverages—is higher than the overall average, which contributes to increased rates of obesity, diabetes, and other health issues that disproportionately affect Latinos, according to a research review by Salud America!, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation research network on Latino childhood obesity that is based at the Institute for Health Promotion Research at the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, the team behind SaludToday.

Pricing interventions, including sugary drink taxes, exclusion of sugary drinks from food assistance programs, and subsidization of healthier beverages have been proposed to reduce sugary drink consumption.

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By The Numbers By The Numbers

20.7

percent

of Latino kids have obesity (compared to 11.7% of white kids)

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