A study published today in AJPM Focus found supermarket sales of soda, fruit drinks and 100% fruit juice dropped significantly during a sweeping six-year multi-prong campaign designed to discourage consumption of sugary drinks in Howard County, Md., but the campaign does not appear to have had the same impact on sales of sports drinks.
In the first six years of the Howard County Unsweetened campaign, which was launched in 2012 by the health advocacy organization The Horizon Foundation and several community partners, sales of soda dropped 29.7% while fruit drink sales fell 7.5% and sales of 100% fruit juice plummeted 33.5%.
Researchers measured the drop by gathering retail sales data from IRI for top selling brands in select supermarkets in Howard County, which was matched to a control sample of select stores in a neighboring south-eastern Pennsylvanian community. The researchers then compared weekly beverage sales of these brands through 2018 to reveal the notable purchase declines.
The sales decline came as Howard County Unsweetened partners restricted access to sugary drinks and increased access to water through policy changes, including eliminating sugary drinks in student-accessible vending machines, prohibiting licensed childcare centers from serving sugary drinks to children in their care and requiring healthier options to be more widely available on local government property. More than 50 community organizations, including businesses, faith communities, health groups and others, also joined the effort to offer healthier options at meetings and in vending machines.
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