Beverage Basics: For Healthy Families
Copyright 2006
Approx. Running Time: 8:00


From toddlers to teens, many of today's children now consume too many sugary soft drinks, juice drinks, and sports drinks and not enough water, milk and other calcium-rich beverages.

Drinking too many high-calorie beverages may be a contributing factor in the rising rates of obese and overweight children and adults.

This video offers some practical tips for weaning babies from the bottle, outlines the latest portion size guidelines for juice and milk, and illustrates the amount of sugar in common beverages.