sugary beverages. In about half of cases (47%), these drinks were bought for consumption at home.
On average, households consumed more than 2,000 calories’ worth of sugary drinks each week — about 1,200 calories while at home and nearly 760 calories outside the home, the CDC team said. Sodas were by far the leading calorie source, with 678 calories’ worth consumed at home and another 472 calories taken in outside the home.
And as the number of people living in a home increased, so did the uptake of high-calorie, sugary drinks, the report found.
Healthy warnings
What can and should be done to help lower these numbers? Two innovations — bold health warnings on