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Health: Food News.(diet soda's health implications)(tea helps prevent cancer, research )
Food News
Diet-Soda Surprise
it's well-known that calorie- and sugar-laden sodas are linked with weight gain. But diet soda may be as well, based on a study of 1,550 people at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio. The more diet soda people drank, the higher the risk of excess pounds. Among healthy-weight subjects who drank one to two diet sodas daily, nearly 55 percent became overweight within eight years, versus 33 percent who drank this number of regular sodas, and less than 25 percent who drank neither. It may be that as people gained weight, they drank more diet soda. Still, research on rats suggests that artificial sweeteners can boost appetite, researcher Sharon P. Fowler says. Also, since diet soda is calorie-free, drinkers might rationalize eating more.
46% of women say they consume diet or sugar-free soft drinks.
A Better Breast Implant?
Tea and Immunity
Green tea's active ingredient, EGCG, may help prevent cancer, research suggests. A team led by Thomas Gasiewicz of the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester, New York, found that EGCG binds to and inhibits a protein in the body related to abnormal cellular activity that can lead to cancer. More research is needed to see how EGCG compares with cancer drugs in averting tumor formation and which types of the disease it affects. Another study indicated that ...
- In Coming Issues.(detox diets; nutrition quiz; sugar; black cohosh; juice...
- Magazine article from: Environmental Nutrition February 1, 2000 700+ words
Are "detox" diets and products safe, effective?....Find out your nutrition I.Q. with EN's Nutrition Month quiz ....The many ways sugar is disguised on labels ....Black cohosh for menopause....How do 100% juices compare to drinks, punches, blends?
- Football: Still green on detox diets.(Sport)
- Newspaper article from: Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland) February 19, 2006 700+ words
Byline: John Hillcoat I'VE spent a fortune since the turn of the year on one of those silly detox diets - the amount of green tea I've drunk recently has left me looking like the Incredible Hulk. But I was gutted when I heard the...
- Detox Diets: The Pros And Cons Of "Cleansing" Fasts And Products.
- Magazine article from: Environmental Nutrition Havala, Suzanne March 1, 2000 700+ words
Herbal teas, potent laxatives, juice fasts, saunas and the granddaddy of them all--colonic irrigation. What do these remedies have in common? They are riding a wave of public interest in "detoxification," that is, purging the body of accumulated contaminants, believed by many to be the scourge of
- Detox diets can cause the body to break down.
- News wire article from: Asian News International October 21, 2009 700+ words
Byline: ANI Melbourne, Oct 12 (ANI): Any diet or detox program involving fasting could cause the body to break down, experts have warned. Some companies have launched aggressive marketing campaigns aimed at young women who want to lose weight. But doctors insist that such programs are of no
- The truth about diet soda: if you guzzle lots of diet soda, here is important...
- Magazine article from: Scholastic Choices Burling, Alexis September 1, 2009 700+ words
...Below are five facts you need to know about diet soda. The first one will make diet-soda fans smile, but the next four won't...calorie-free. If your main reason for drinking diet soda is to consume fewer calories, you are meeting...
- ABC's THE VIEW to Profile All-Natural Diet Soda Alternative.
- Press release article from: Business Wire January 10, 2008 700+ words
...the first all-natural calorie-free diet soda alternative, will be featured tomorrow...R] is "an excellent alternative to diet soda with a great opportunity to attract soda...wife, Jessica, who is a recovering diet soda addict and mother of three seeking a...
- Is diet soda making you fat? The latest research reveals that your favorite...
- Magazine article from: Harper's Bazaar Pepper, Leslie July 1, 2006 700+ words
If you drink diet soda to stay slim, you may be doing yourself...that, on average, those who drank diet soda--even as little as one can or bottle...soft drinks or none at all. The more diet soda they drank, the more likely they were...
- Diet soda may harm your teeth
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Lisa Messinger July 26, 1987 700+ words
...often drinks four to six cans of diet soda a day. She reports that an office...six-pack-a-day man. Like many diet-soda drinkers, Banks and her friend think...is consumption of excessive amounts of diet soda. "Many dentists have observed in their...
