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Experts say skip the soda.(Brief Article)

Better Nutrition

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The statistics are disheartening: the prevalence of obesity among children in the United States has increased by 100 percent between 1980 and 1994. We have to ask what caused this.

A team of researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health suspected a link between childhood obesity and the consumption of sugar-sweetened drinks. They conducted a study in which over 500 school children had their dietary intakes examined over a two-year period. As reported in The Lancet, the results showed that those children who increased their intake of sugar-overloaded ...

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