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Soft drinks: Public enemy No.1 in obesity fight?
Source(CNN) -- Pushing her meal cart into the hospital room, a research assistant hands out tall glasses of reddish-pink liquid, along with a gentle warning: "Remember, you guys have to finish all your Kool-Aid."
One by one, young volunteers chug down their drinks, each carefully calibrated to contain a mix of water, flavoring and a precisely calibrated solution of high fructose corn syrup: 55% fructose, 45% glucose.
The participants are part of an ongoing study run by Kimber Stanhope, a nutritional biologist at the University of California, Davis. Volunteers agree to spend several weeks as lab rats: their food carefully measured, their bodies subjected to a steady dose of scans and blood tests. At first, each volunteer receives meals with no added sugars. But then, the sweetened drinks start showing up.
For the final two weeks of the study, volunteers drank three of the sweet concoctions daily -- about 500 calories of added sugar, or 25% of all calories for the adult women in the study. Within just two weeks, their blood chemistry was out of whack. In one striking change, the volunteers had elevated levels of LDL cholesterol, a risk factor for heart disease.
While force-feeding junk food may sound extreme, this controlled diet is not so far from the real world. A 20-ounce regular soda contains 227 calories, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). That single drink is more than 10% of the total calories an adult woman needs to maintain a healthy weight, according to USDA diet guidelines. Meanwhile, about 1 in 4 Americans gets at least 200 calories a day from sugary drinks. These numbers, along with work like Stanhope's, gives ammunition to doctors and public health officials who say soda should be treated as public health enemy No. 1.
Why haven't they started a war on sugary drinks? It needs to happen.
I hate to say it but I personally coincide with those who believe this is also a National Security issue, i think the govt. should step in.
Too much sugar is not good for me? My eyes have been opened....
Explain that to.Originally Posted by Yeti2424
Funny how the government demonize cigarettes and put all kinds of graphic photos on the pack as well graphic ads on tv. However, all the kids get to see during Christmas is giant white pandas and Santas drinking coke and having a happy time. It must good for the body...no?
I'm with you on this one.
It is also a life style change from back in the day. You used to have to go out and find something to keep you occupied now it is all on a little screen.
sorry but softs drinks simply don't make people go overweight alone it's a cummulation of things such as lack of regular exercise .. etc
poor life style
While i agree that there are alot of factors involved. I think Corn Syrup is quite the factor probably worse than Sugar. The only thing Corn Syrup people have is "its no different in your body than Sugar".
Most if not all soft drinks in the States have corn syrup in them.
I would rather drink/eat something loaded with sugar than corn syrup.
Explanation:
Either (VERY)wide angle lens, or just possibly Photoshop........
I mean you know its not real??
I don't drink Coke's with corn syrup, only Mexican Coke's with sugar.
Only 1 in 4? To me that seems kind of low since a single can of soda has almost 200 calories in it. Not to mention energy drinks like Monster or Power Aid.
I know quite a bunch of people who have a lifestlye that'd be considered "unhealthy" and who're slim and fit nonetheless. Their magic secret: They actually move their bodies. And not only to get from the kitchen to the living room and back. You don't even need to go the gym for that.
Coke does do damage, Hard to get rid of it in 45 to 55 degrees celsius.
Last edited by Kunal Biswas; 04-27-2012 at 07:07 PM. Reason: Terrain
Get rid of corn subsidies.
Get rid of the nanny state. If someone wants to be a fat ****, chain smoking their way to a heart attack, not wearing a seatbelt as they motor on down the freeway then thats on them...because I don't think I should have to pay that retards health insurance either.
Fat **** dies, harvest some skin, and whatever can be organ donated and move out.
As a side note, I find it ironic that many of those that profess a deep seated belief in evolution don't really want to see it in action. They want govermomma to tell them it's all going to be ok, and even fat ****s are special.
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