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Volume 7, Issue 3 (Suppl) J Obes Weight Loss Ther, an open access journal
ISSN: 2165-7904 Childhood Obesity & Bariatric Surgery 2017
June 12-13, 2017
June 12-13, 2017 Rome, Italy
& Childhood Obesity and Nutrition
10th International Conference on
Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery
2nd International Conference on
JOINT EVENT
Empowering youth to reduce sugar-sweetened beverage consumption through a place-based initiative
Vanessa Salcedo1, Paulo R Pina2 and Roberts Calpurnyia3
1Union Community Health Center, USA
2SBH Health System, USA
3NYC Department of Health, USA
Background: Residents of underserved communities, especially Blacks and Latinos, are disproportionately targeted by big soda
companies. Youth participation in placed-based initiatives at worksites could prove useful in countering such marketing.
Methods: In 2015, 33 youth were participated a six-week summer employment program at an urban federally qualified health
center (FQHC) assisted in the launch of the “Sugar Sweetened Beverage (SSB) Free Zone” at the FQHC. Through a train-the-trainer
approach, youth received a formal education on SSBs; the youth created and implemented activities to educate and encourage staff
along with patients to drink water and reduce their consumption of SSBs; in addition, the youth modeled positive SSB behavior
throughout the health center.
Results: The youth were 16.5+/-2.0 years, 80.7% were female, 51.5% were Black, and 61.3% were Latino (n=31) showed that a greater
proportion of youth correctly identified the sugar content of soda (57.6% to 87.1%; p-value=0.0087) and that SSBs were related to liver
disease (57.6% to 90.3%; p-value 0.0030). The frequency of drinking Iced-T (54.5% to 29.0%; p-value=0.0389) decreased significantly.
The proportion of youth motivated to consume water several times per day nearly tripled from 12.1% to 35.5% (p-value=0.0275) and
nearly all youth considered drinking less SSBs next year (66.7% vs. 96.7%; p-value=0.0025).
Conclusion: Involvement in a healthy beverage worksite environment may improve youth knowledge of SSBs, decrease consumption
of some SSBs, and increase consumption of water. A relatively short worksite placed-based initiative may result in favorable healthy
behavioral changes and intentions among youth.
Biography
Vanessa Salcedo completed her Medical Degree and Master’s Degree in Public Health at George Washington University. After medical school, she became
a Fulbright Scholar where she conducted research on the growing prevalence of childhood obesity in Spain. Subsequently, she completed her Residency in
Pediatrics at Columbia University Medical Center. During Residency, she was selected as a New Century Scholar from the Academic Pediatric Association
while also serving as Chair of the Council of Residents and Board Member of the National Hispanic Medical Association (NHMA). She is a community-academic
Pediatrician at Union Community Health Center, a Federally Health Qualified Center in Bronx. She is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at City University of
New York (CUNY) School of Medicine. Her research interest includes “Leading the development and implementation of childhood obesity prevention strategies
specifically through healthy beverage initiatives”.
Vanessa Salcedo et al., J Obes Weight Loss Ther 2017, 7:3 (Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2165-7904-C1-046