Fixing Fat Tip #17 - Do not drink soda for a month.

ACTION: Make a pledge to drink water and learn to enjoy the flavors of food, without a highly sweetened beverage at your side. At the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), they found you don’t even have to drink soda every day, just have one “occasionally” and you’re 15% more likely to be overweight or obese. Drink at least one or more a day and you’re 27% more likely to be overweight or obese, than people who don’t drink soda.

REFERENCES:

Policy Brief UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. 2009 Sep;(PB2009-5):1-8. Bubbling over: soda consumption and its link to obesity in California. Babey SH, Jones M, Yu H, Goldstein H.

Obesity (Silver Spring). 2008 Aug;16(8):1894-900. Epub 2008 Jun 5. Fueling the obesity epidemic? Artificially sweetened beverage use and long-term weight gain. Fowler SP, Williams K, Resendez RG, Hunt KJ, Hazuda HP, Stern MP.
Department of Medicine, Division of Clinical Epidemiology, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, USA. fowlers@uthscsa.edu

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 2009 Sep;90(3):822S-825S. Epub 2009 Jul 1. Taste signaling elements expressed in gut enteroendocrine cells regulate nutrient-responsive secretion of gut hormones. Kokrashvili Z, Mosinger B, Margolskee RF.
Department of Neuroscience, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA.

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