What You Drink May Affect You More Than What You Eat
When it comes to weight loss, cutting down on sugary drinks may work better than eating less, say researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Weight loss efforts were more successful in their recent study of people who cut down on sugary beverages versus those who eliminated the same amount of calories from solid food.
One explanation for these findings is that the body tends to self-regulate its intake of solid food. In other words, a person who eats a large breakfast and lunch will naturally be less hungry at dinner. This self-regulation does not occur with sugary liquids. In fact, sodas and other sugary beverages, including alcohol, simply don’t satisfy and account in large part for the growing obesity epidemic. By 2015, experts contend that 75 percent of U.S. adults could be overweight or obese.
SOURCES: Liwei Chen, M.D., Ph.D., M.H.S., assistant professor of epidemiology, School of Public Health, LSU Health Science Center, New Orleans; Connie Diekman, M.Ed, R.D., director, University Nutrition, Washington University, St Louis; April 1, 2009, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
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