Ireland has seen the sharpest decline in teenagers choosing sugary drinks, among 21 European countries, according to a new study.
A research team from NUI Galway's Health Promotion Research Centre monitored consumption ever 4 years since 2002.
From the first survey 20 years ago until the most recent one in 2018 - daily intake of sugary drinks fell by almost 85 percent.
Research Centre Director Professor Colette Kelly is one of the co-authors, she explains why habits are changing:
Whether it's interventions in schools, public health interventions, across the whole you know community or public, and that might be about promoting healthier diet, but also it's about access to certain foods, so interventions that have taken place that have been kind of looking at the behaviour but also looking at structural things so access to certain types of food, cost of foods, so there's lots of different reasons I think this is falling over time."
