Older Teen Girls Drink More Soda, Less Milk
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From Times Wire Reports
Despite popular ads featuring milk-mustached athletes and rock stars, teenage girls drink less milk as they grow older and instead quench their thirst with sugar-concentrated soda, a study says.
A U.S. Agriculture Department study of girls ages 12 through 19 found that the youngest drink the most milk and the least soda.
In a survey of 732 girls, 78% of 12-year-olds drank milk, while consuming only nine ounces of soda per day. The 19-year-olds gulped down 14 ounces of soda per day and only 36% drank milk.
