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You are what you … drink?
Muscle & Fitness/Hers, April, 2004 by Dana Sullivan
It may not be what we eat that's making many Americans overweight, but rather what we drink.
When researchers at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health looked at dietary trends around the world, they discovered an increase in the consumption of caloric sweeteners--e.g., sugar--particularly in beverages and particularly in the United States. In the last 10 years the number of calories the average American consumes in the form of sweetened drinks--primarily soft drinks and fruit drinks--has increased from 70 calories per day to 136, notes Barry Popkin, a professor of nutrition and lead author of the study. And those calories add up: an extra 66 calories per day translates to more than six pounds per year. "Drinking more water and, to a lesser extent, milk instead of sugary drinks is the solution for most Americans," says Popkin.
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