More News About Weight Loss and Sodas
Want to know why sodas make it hard for weight loss? According to the National Soft Drink Association, the total amount of sodas consumed by Americans in one year is enough for every person in the U.
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to gain 30 pounds! That is over 600 - 12 ounce cans.
Since many of the cans are low or zero calorie, the number is somewhat of an exaggeration.
However after taking over 25 years of patient data, the San Antonio Heart Study states that there is a clear link between drinking diet sodas and obesity as well.
Surprisingly, according to the study, people who drank diet sodas were more likely to become overweight.
In addition, the more diet sodas they drank, the higher their risk of becoming obese.
Also, according to the statistics, for each diet soda consumed per day, drinkers are 65% more likely to become overweight.
Why is that? First those who drank diet sodas still tend to consume foods high in calories.
What's more, the insulin response caused by drinking diet sodas slows their metabolism.
This has the effect of promoting long term weigh gain.
More Bad News The high caffeine and sodium levels also raises the blood pressure enough in some people to increase their health risk to diseases such as hypertension and heart disease.
Additionally, the high fructose corn syrup found in regular soda, euphemistically referred to sometimes as liquid candy, has a direct correlation to the high obesity rates found here in the States.
These results are in line with what has been reported in previous studies as well.
What to Do Given this continuous flow of evidence on soft drinks it is obvious that a quick means to weight loss can be achieved by ditching sodas, even diet sodas, for water.
And just as importantly, there also needs to be a cutting back on foods high in calories.
It may not be easy at first, but persistence and a determination to eat healthy no matter what the cost is the kind of attitude that will help obesity become a thing of the past.
S.
to gain 30 pounds! That is over 600 - 12 ounce cans.
Since many of the cans are low or zero calorie, the number is somewhat of an exaggeration.
However after taking over 25 years of patient data, the San Antonio Heart Study states that there is a clear link between drinking diet sodas and obesity as well.
Surprisingly, according to the study, people who drank diet sodas were more likely to become overweight.
In addition, the more diet sodas they drank, the higher their risk of becoming obese.
Also, according to the statistics, for each diet soda consumed per day, drinkers are 65% more likely to become overweight.
Why is that? First those who drank diet sodas still tend to consume foods high in calories.
What's more, the insulin response caused by drinking diet sodas slows their metabolism.
This has the effect of promoting long term weigh gain.
More Bad News The high caffeine and sodium levels also raises the blood pressure enough in some people to increase their health risk to diseases such as hypertension and heart disease.
Additionally, the high fructose corn syrup found in regular soda, euphemistically referred to sometimes as liquid candy, has a direct correlation to the high obesity rates found here in the States.
These results are in line with what has been reported in previous studies as well.
What to Do Given this continuous flow of evidence on soft drinks it is obvious that a quick means to weight loss can be achieved by ditching sodas, even diet sodas, for water.
And just as importantly, there also needs to be a cutting back on foods high in calories.
It may not be easy at first, but persistence and a determination to eat healthy no matter what the cost is the kind of attitude that will help obesity become a thing of the past.
