Low-fat, low-cal, low-carb. Atkins, South Beach, The Zone. Food fads may be distracting attention from something more insidiously piling on pounds: beverages.
One of every five calories in the American diet is liquid. The nation's single biggest "food" is soda, and nutrition experts have long demonized it. This article discusses the matter in great detail: Soft drinks=Obesity!
What I have been preaching for YEARS is that no one need ever consume a soft drink, sugar filled or "diet"! They are the WORST and most unnecessary things that we put in our bodies and now, we know they are 1/5 of our caloric intake. Think about that, if you simply made WATER your beverage of choice you would cut 1/5 of your caloric intake out effortlessly!
A reader of mine years ago doubted that her daily soft drink fix would lead to great weight loss, I encouraged her to give it up, especially after I found out that she was consuming 3 LITERS of Dr. Pepper a day! She did it, she busted her soft drink vice and 75 pounds of weight loss later, she is very thankful that she did so!
Soft drink consumption rose more than 60 percent among adults and more than doubled in kids from 1977-97. The prevalence of obesity roughly doubled in that time. Scientists say these parallel trends are one criterion for proving cause-and-effect.
Biologically, the calories from sugar-sweetened beverages are fundamentally different in the body than those from food.
The main sweetener in soda - high-fructose corn syrup - can increase fats in the blood called triglycerides, which raises the risk of heart problems, diabetes and other health woes.
Sugar-sweetened beverages affect the intake of other foods, such as lowering milk consumption. Such beverages also may be psychological triggers of poor eating habits and cravings for fast food.
Despite the fact that reasearch clearly shows that sugar-filled drinks are a big factor in the obesity crisis, diet gurus and the beverage lobby continue to espouse the ridiculous and damaging notion of "moderation". Book shelves are stacked with titles proclaiming "eat the foods you LOVE and still lose weight", many diet plans encourage a day off to consume whatever you want while diet pills lead the overweight consumer to think they don't need to change anything they are doing but only need to pop a pill to realize the body of their dreams.
To the best of my knowledge, I am the ONLY one saying give up Sugar-Filled soft drinks, Fast "food" and your other worst "vices" FOREVER---for the rest of and BEST of your life!
A movement is underway and it is changing the diet of America--it is called Vice Busting and it works, and will work for YOU!
Learn why Dr. David L. Katz (Yale University, O' Magazine, Oprah Show, The Flavor Point Diet, The Way to Eat) and Dr. Mehmet Oz (You, the Owner's Manual, Discovery Health) and Mark Victor Hansen (Chicken Soup for the Soul, Motivational guru) ALL agree that The Vice Busting Diet IS the solution to the Obesity epidemic.
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