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Trends in sugar intake: do these parallel changes in caries prevalence among S. African preschoolchildren?
Author(s) -
Richardson Barbara D.,
CleatonJones Peter E.,
Sinwel Ruth E.,
Rantsho Johanna M.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
community dentistry and oral epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.061
H-Index - 101
eISSN - 1600-0528
pISSN - 0301-5661
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0528.1984.tb01427.x
Subject(s) - medicine , sugar consumption , sugar , dentistry , environmental health , consumption (sociology) , demography , food science , social science , chemistry , sociology
Mean sugar intake in South Africa has fallen in Black rural groups and remained more or less constant for their urban counterparts; for Indian groups it has risen, but fallen in White groups. The amounts of sugar in mean snack/sweet intakes have not shown the same degree of fall and have remained relatively constant in all but Indian groups where there has been a definite fall in consumption. Caries prevalences (percentages of children with caries) have risen in all but White groups. It can be concluded that quantitative changes in sugar consumption and caries prevalences do not parallel each other.