A new report from Yale University's Rudd Center for Food
Policy and Obesity states that many fruit drinks heavily marketed to children contain
dangerously high levels of sugar. A
significant number of parents mistakenly consider such drinks to be healthy
alternatives to soft drinks.
The report notes that such drinks increase the risk for
obesity and diabetes, and that drinking just one 8-ounce sugary drink each day
increases a child's odds of becoming obese by 60 percent.
CBS News lists the seven brands singled out by the Yale
researchers as the worst offenders, which include:
“An 8-ounce serving of Hawaiian Punch ... [which has] 29
grams of added sugar -- 193 percent of the sugar a child needs for an entire
day -- in addition to artificial sweeteners.”