Association of a Workplace Sales Ban on Sugar-Sweetened Beverages With Employee Consumption of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages and Health.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Reductions in sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) intake can improve health, but are difficult for individuals to achieve on their own.

Objectives

To evaluate whether a workplace SSB sales ban was associated with SSB intake and cardiometabolic health among employees and whether a brief motivational intervention provides added benefits to the sales ban.

Design, setting, and participants

This before-after study and additional randomized trial conducted from July 28, 2015, to October 16, 2016, at a Northern California university and hospital assessed SSB intake, anthropometrics, and cardiometabolic biomarkers among 214 full-time English-speaking employees who were frequent SSB consumers (≥360 mL [≥12 fl oz] per day) before and 10 months after implementation of an S

SUBMITTER: Epel ES 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6820289 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature