Soft Drink Consumption Not The Major Contributor To Childhood Obesity
Most children and youth who consume soft drinks and other sweetened beverages, such as fruit punch and lemonade, are not at any higher risk for obesity than their peers who drink healthy beverages, says a new study published in the October issue of Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism…
June 18, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: applied, new-study, nutrition, on call diets, oncalldietitian.com, other-sweetened, risk, such-as-fruit
Weight Loss Benefit Of Soda Taxes Linked To Household Income
Imposing higher taxes on sodas and other sweetened drinks may generate a lot of money – but would lead to only minimal weight loss among most people and would have no effect on weight among consumers in the highest and lowest income groups, according to new research from Duke-National University of Singapore (NUS) Graduate Medical School…
December 15, 2010 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: drinks-may, graduate, highest, income-groups, nutrition, on call diets, other-sweetened, sweetened, taxes, taxes-on-sodas, weight-loss
