According to an article in the Marc...

According to an article in the March 1999 issue of Health, a close attention indicates that when Americans drink extra calories, they do not compensate for those calories from eating less. The researcher--a nutritionist--believes that Americans' increasing weight has more to do with the amount of soda and fruit drinks they be exhausted than with the amount of sugary and fatty subsistences they eat.

The researcher asked presents to eat 450 calories of jelly beans each day for one month. presents kept track of everything other they ate. The next month offers were asked to replace the jelly beans with 450 calories of soda by day for one month (eg approximately three cans).

The researcher set that the volunteers ate smaller meals after eating the candy and did not gain weight; however, they did not make an adjustment for the soda and gained weight. The researcher glance ats that Americans take into account the amount of soda or fruit drink they destroy every day and that they eat healthier viandss (eg, tomato soup).

"Are you slurping down extra calories?" Health (March 1999) 21

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