News tagged with soft drinks

Cola and unhealthy lifestyle lower sperm count

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Danish study suggests drinking a lot of cola regularly could men’s lower sperm count by almost 30 percent. The culprit does not appear to be caffeine, since coffee did not have the same ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 31, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (15) | comments 6 | with audio podcast report

Fight obesity? Add sales tax to soda tab

Presenting a united front in the war on obesity, diabetes and other nutrition-related disorders, seven of America’s leading public health and economics experts are urging passage of taxes on sugar-sweetened ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (10) | comments 32

Got a decision to make? Get some sugar in your system: study

If you're about to try to negotiate a pay rise, it might be a good idea to have a sugary drink beforehand, according to a study published this week in Psychological Science.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 30, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Fructose sugar makes maturing human fat cells fatter, less insulin-sensitive

Fructose, the sugar widely used as high-fructose corn syrup in soft drinks and processed foods, often gets some of the blame for the widespread rise in obesity. Now a laboratory study has found that when fructose is present ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jun 21, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

'Diet' drinks linked to risk of premature birth

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study of pregnant women in Denmark has found an association between daily consumption of soft drinks containing artificial sweeteners and the risk of premature delivery.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 28, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 3 | with audio podcast report

Heat forms potentially harmful substance in high-fructose corn syrup

Researchers have established the conditions that foster formation of potentially dangerous levels of a toxic substance in the high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) often fed to honey bees. Their study, which appears ...

Chemistry / Other

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 2

FDA questions safety of alcoholic energy drinks

(AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration is challenging makers of alcohol-infused energy drinks to prove their beverages are safe, citing complaints that the products can cause risky behavior and injury.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 6

Research shows sugary drinks do not cause weight gain

New research from Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, shows that sugary drinks, consumed in moderate quantities, do not promote weight gain, carbohydrate craving or adverse mood effects in overweight women ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 11, 2010 | popularity 1.9 / 5 (11) | comments 29 | with audio podcast

Israeli scientists develop date-rape drug detector

The days of having to cart your cocktail to the ladies room may be over: two Israeli scientists say they have developed a sensor that can accurately detect date-rape drugs in drinks 100 percent of the time.

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Aug 02, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Metal shortages alert from leading geologists

Geologists are warning of shortages and bottlenecks of some metals due to an insatiable demand for consumer products.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 12, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 3

Can we fix it -- yes we can

Scientists at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), the UK's National Measurement Institute are working on a project to develop a new, lighter weight beverage can punch with improved wear resistance. The ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 06, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | 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

Soft drink consumption may increase risk of pancreatic cancer

Consuming two or more soft drinks per week increased the risk of developing pancreatic cancer by nearly twofold compared to individuals who did not consume soft drinks, according to a report in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 08, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

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 ...

Medicine & Health / Health

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

Coffee and soft drinks have little or no association with colon cancer risk, study says

Drinking even large amounts of coffee and sugar-sweetened, carbonated soft drinks is not associated with the risk of colon cancer according to a large study published online May 7 in the Journal of the National Cancer In ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created May 07, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Soft drink

A soft drink is a beverage that does not contain alcohol; generally it is also implied that the drink does not contain milk or other dairy products and that it is consumed while cold. Carbonated soft drinks are commonly known as soda, soda pop, pop, coke, cola or tonic in various parts of the United States, pop in Canada, cooldrink, colddrink, fizzy drink or soft drink(formal) in South Africa, fizzy drinks, pop or soft drinks in the United Kingdom and Australia and sometimes minerals in Ireland. The adjective soft specifies a lack of alcohol by way of contrast to the term "hard drink". The word drink, while nominally neutral, sometimes carries connotations of alcoholic content. Beverages like colas, flavored water, sparkling water, iced tea, sweet tea, lemonade, squash, and fruit punch are among the most common types of soft drinks, while hot chocolate, hot tea, coffee, milk, tap water, juice and milkshakes do not fall into this classification. Many carbonated soft drinks are optionally available in versions sweetened with sugars or with non-caloric sweeteners.

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