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Evaluation of Non-Alcoholic Beverages and the Risk Related to Consumer Health among the Romanian Population

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Magdalena Mititelu, Magdalena Mititelu, Magdalena Mititelu, Theodora Claudia Gheonea, Magdalena Mititelu, Gabriel Olteanu, Magdalena Mititelu, Theodora Claudia Gheonea, Magdalena Mititelu, Carmen-Nicoleta Oancea, Corina-Bianca Ioniță-Mîndrican, Carmen Elena Lupu Sorinel Marius Neacșu, Gabriel Olteanu, Carmen-Nicoleta Oancea, Sorinel Marius Neacșu, Carmen-Nicoleta Oancea, Sorinel Marius Neacșu, Sorinel Marius Neacșu, Sorinel Marius Neacșu, Sorinel Marius Neacșu, Magdalena Mititelu, Magdalena Mititelu, Magdalena Mititelu, Carmen Elena Lupu Sorinel Marius Neacșu, Sorinel Marius Neacșu, Sorinel Marius Neacșu, Sorinel Marius Neacșu, Sorinel Marius Neacșu, Sorinel Marius Neacșu, Gabriel Olteanu, Carmen Elena Lupu Sorinel Marius Neacșu, Sorinel Marius Neacșu, Sorinel Marius Neacșu, Gabriel Olteanu, Sorinel Marius Neacșu, Gabriel Olteanu, Theodora Claudia Gheonea, Carmen Elena Lupu Alexandru‐Tiberiu Cîrţu, Theodora Claudia Gheonea, Alexandru‐Tiberiu Cîrţu, Corina-Bianca Ioniță-Mîndrican, Gabriela Stanciu, Tiberius Iustinian Stanciu, Ion Rogoveanu, Corina-Bianca Ioniță-Mîndrican, Lucian Hîncu, Tiberius Iustinian Stanciu, Magdalena Mititelu, Ion Rogoveanu, Theodora Claudia Gheonea, Magdalena Mititelu, Theodora Claudia Gheonea, Tiberius Iustinian Stanciu, Tiberius Iustinian Stanciu, Fallah Hashemi, Magdalena Mititelu, Nicoleta Măru, Carmen-Nicoleta Oancea, Gabriela Stanciu, Corina-Bianca Ioniță-Mîndrican, Ion Rogoveanu, Corina-Bianca Ioniță-Mîndrican, Lucian Hîncu, Fallah Hashemi, Gabriela Stanciu, Sorinel Marius Neacșu, Sorinel Marius Neacșu, Corina-Bianca Ioniță-Mîndrican, Nicoleta Măru, Corina-Bianca Ioniță-Mîndrican, Sergiu Lupu, Gabriel Olteanu, Caunii Angelica, Carmen Elena Lupu Caunii Angelica, Nicoleta Măru, Carmen Elena Lupu Alexandru‐Tiberiu Cîrţu, Alexandru‐Tiberiu Cîrţu, Sergiu Lupu, Carmen Elena Lupu Carmen Elena Lupu

Summary

Researchers conducted a survey of non-alcoholic beverage consumption among the Romanian population and assessed associated health risk factors. They found high rates of coffee and sweetened drink consumption combined with widespread physical inactivity, creating potential long-term metabolic and psychological health risks. The study highlights the need for public health interventions addressing dietary habits and sedentary lifestyles in Romania.

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The range of non-alcoholic drinks is very varied both from a compositional point of view and from a caloric and nutritional point of view. The excessive consumption of sweetened non-alcoholic beverages represents an important risk factor for health, especially when it is accompanied by an unbalanced diet and a disordered lifestyle. In order to evaluate the consumption of non-alcoholic beverages correlated with the evaluation of the main lifestyle factors that can affect the state of health among Romanians, a cross-sectional observational study was carried out based on a questionnaire. The results of the study indicate that among the most consumed non-alcoholic drinks are coffee and sweetened carbonated and non-carbonated drinks, which are indicated as being responsible for the development of consumption addictions: 44% for coffee, 16.5% for sweetened or tonic carbonated drinks and 12% for sweetened non-carbonated drinks. Considering that the consumption of coffee is usually associated with sweeteners, there is a risk of excessive caffeine and caloric intake in a context where a lack of exercise predominates (59.98%) among respondents declaring that they do sports rarely or not at all, which can lead, in the long term, to the appearance of imbalances either of a psycho-emotional nature or of a metabolic nature. A significant link was found between sports activity and the environment in which they work (χ<sup>2</sup> = 51.33, <i>p</i> = 0.05). Respondents with a daily activity that involves movement (working outdoors, working on a construction site) are also those who usually do sports, while 60.67% of the respondents who work a lot in front of the computer declared that they do sports very rarely or not at all. Reducing the excessive consumption of sweetened drinks can be achieved through an appropriate consumption of water and fruits and by intensifying physical activity as a way of counterbalancing the excess caloric intake.

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