Beverage consumption patterns of Canadian adults aged 19 to 65 years.

Objective: To investigate the beverage intake patterns of Canadian adults and explore characteristics of participants in different beverage clusters.

Design: Analyses of nationally representative data with cross-sectional complex stratified design.

Setting: Canadian Community Health Survey, Cycle 2.

Fruit drink consumption is associated with overweight and obesity in Canadian women.

Objective: Overweight and obesity in Canada have significantly increased during the last three decades, paralleled by increased intake of fat and sugar, particularly sugary beverages. The Canadian Community Health Survey, Cycle 2.2, conducted in 2004 (CCHS 2.

Beverage patterns among Canadian children and relationship to overweight and obesity.

Sweetened beverage intake has risen in past decades, along with a rise in prevalence of overweight and obesity among children. Our objective was to examine the relationship between beverage intake patterns and overweight and obesity among Canadian children. Beverage intake patterns were identified by cluster analysis of data from the cross-sectional Canadian Community Health Survey 2.

Beverage intake patterns of Canadian children and adolescents.

Objective: Little is known of the beverage intake patterns of Canadian children or of characteristics within these patterns. The objective was to determine beverage intake patterns among Canadian children and compare intakes of fourteen types of beverages, along with intakes of vitamin C and Ca, and sociodemographic factors across clusters.

Design: Dietary information was collected using one 24 h recall.