Sports participation and alcohol use revisited: A longitudinal study of Norwegian postmillennial adolescents.

Introduction: Recent developments in health behavior among adolescents may have been accompanied by changes in risk factors for alcohol use. Focusing on postmillennial cohorts of adolescents, we revisit the question of whether sports participation is a risk factor for alcohol use.

Method: This study analyses data from four waves (2017-2020) of the MyLife longitudinal study.

The effects of an abrupt increase in taxes on candy and soda in Norway: an observational study of retail sales.

Background: Fiscal policies are used to promote a healthier diet; however, there is still a call for real-world evaluations of taxes on unhealthy foods and beverages. We aimed to evaluate the effect of an abrupt increase, of respectively 80 and 40%, in the excising Norwegian taxes on candy and beverages on volume sales of candy and soda. We expected sales to fall.