SOFT DRINKS & OBESITY.Obesity rates in children and teens doubled between 1980 and 1994. A new study of more than 500 6th-grade and 7th-grade students may help explain why. Over the two years of the study, those who most increased their consumption of sweetened sweet·en v. sweet·ened, sweet·en·ing, sweet·ens v.tr. 1. To make sweet or sweeter by adding sugar, honey, saccharin, or another sweet substance. 2. To make more pleasant or agreeable. soft drinks, iced tea, and fruit drinks (like KoolAid, lemonade, and Hawaiian Punch Hawaiian Punch is the name of a brand of fruit punch drinks (containing 5% fruit juice) owned by Dr Pepper/Seven Up, Inc. (DPSU). It was created in 1934 by A.W. Leo, Tom Yates, and Ralph Harrison as an ice cream topping; customers later discovered that it made an appealing drink ) were most likely to become obese. "Sugar-sweetened drinks could lead to obesity because people may not compensate well for calories consumed in liquid form" by eating fewer calories later, says co-author David Ludwig
In 2000, Dr. David Ludwig, the Director of the Obesity Program at the Children's Hospital Boston, studied the effects of consuming soft of the Harvard School of Public Health The Harvard School of Public Health is (colloquially, HSPH) is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. Located in Longwood Area of the Boston, Massachusetts neighborhood of Mission Hill, next to Harvard Medical School and Cambridge, Massachusetts, . What to do: To help prevent obesity or to lose weight, limit your intake of sweetened soft drinks and fruit drinks. Lancet 357: 490, 505, 2001. |
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