News tagged with fruit drinks

Drinking sugar-sweetened beverages daily linked to diabetes

More Americans now drink sugar-sweetened sodas, sport drinks and fruit drinks daily, and this increase in consumption has led to more diabetes and heart disease over the past decade, researchers reported at the American Heart ...

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Drinking milk in the morning may help stave off lunchtime hunger

Now there's a new reason for the weight-conscious to drink fat free milk at breakfast time, suggests a new study published in the July issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Researchers in Australia found that d ...

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created Jun 22, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 3

Sugar-sweetened drinks associated with higher blood pressure

Soda and other sugar-sweetened beverages such as fruit drinks are associated with higher blood pressure levels in adults, researchers report in Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association.

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created Feb 28, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

The 'Ene Pocket' toy car runs on sugar (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Takara Tomy, the Japanese toy makers have unveiled their "Ene Pocket", a radio-controlled toy car with a Sony bio-battery that is fuelled by sugars like those in fruit drinks and sodas.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

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'Push! breathe! eat!' -- snacks OK while in labour: study

Eating while in the throes of childbirth should no longer be a medical taboo, according to a study released Wednesday.

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created Mar 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Fruit juices contain more vitamin C than their labels indicate

A team of pharmacists from the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) has established that the levels of vitamin C in many fruit juices and soft drinks are far higher than those indicated on their labels ...

Chemistry / Other

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researcher finds reason for weight gain

Liwei Chen, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Public Health, is the lead author of a research paper showing that weight gain and obesity are more linked to ...

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created Apr 22, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Wal-Mart gives boost to push for healthier food

(AP) -- Attention, Walmart shoppers: The food in your cart, from fruit drinks to salad dressing, may soon get healthier.

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created Jan 20, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Mexico to ban junk food from schools to fight fat

(AP) -- Mexico is looking to battle the bulging waistlines of its children by banning the sale of junk food in its schools, including many of the traditional treats generations of kids have grown up with.

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created May 27, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Research shows gender difference in energy compensation effect

The results of a new scientific study from Oxford Brookes University show that the consumption of caloric beverages has different affects on short-term total energy intake in men and women.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Aug 25, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Binge drinking youths find getting old a drag

Young men who believe that happiness declines with age are more likely to engage in risky health behaviors such as binge drinking. Their misguided negative view of the aging process may act as a disincentive to behave 'sensibly' ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

CDC: Fewer schools selling candy, soda to students (Update)

(AP) -- Fewer U.S. high schools and middle schools are selling candy and salty snacks to students, the federal government said in a report released Monday.

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