Posted on 04/06/2020 5:51:01 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Replacing saturated fat with healthy fats is the main dietary step people take to improve cholesterol and triglyceride levels. But according to a study published in February in the Journal of the American Heart Association, avoiding soda may also have a positive effect.
Researchers from Tufts and Boston universities wanted to explore how peoples intakes of different beverages might affect dyslipidemia, an unhealthy imbalance of cholesterol and triglycerides in the blood that increases the risk of heart disease. They looked at just over 12 years worth of data from about 6,000 adult participants in the Framingham Heart Study, a long-term, ongoing research project focused on cardiovascular health.
People who had more than one serving of sugar-sweetened beverages such as soda, sports drinks or presweetened teas each day over the past four years had levels of HDL (good) cholesterol and triglycerides that may signify an increased risk of heart disease. (A serving was defined as 12 ounces, the amount in a can of soda. But many single-serving soft drinks come in 20-ounce bottles, so you could be drinking more than one serving even if you only have one bottle per day.)
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It became my fishing partner's secret weapon. He offered me a ice cold RC and a moon pie when the fish started really biting - I don't believe I ever did catch more fish than he did. I still keep a couple of cases in the pantry.
The more you eat the more you fart.
Buffett directly runs Berkshire Hathaway. The top managers of its 100% owned subsidiaries (See’s Candies, Benjamin Moore, Duracell, GEICO etc.) answer directly to him.
Mommy told me not to put them in my ears.
With my sugar-free ice cream in a bath of ice cold diet coke, by heart is happy to give me another day of fun.
Ummmm.....does this mean sugar isn’t good for you? Who ever would have guessed!
Oh oh, I think soda is flowing thru my arteries.
if its a dark caramel colored soda phosphoric acid is an issue along with either the sugar, or the fake sweetener.
Deftly played
DG carries it
Sounds like a sugar problem, not a soda problem.
Wow - maybe Bloomberg really did save a lot of lives......did he approve that message?
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