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Avoiding Sodas May Be Good for Your Heart, New Research Suggests
Washington Post ^

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 people’s 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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TOPICS: Food; Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: cholesterol; dyslipidemia; heartdisease; soda; study; triglycerides
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To: NonValueAdded

And bean eaters are really smart.

21 posted on 04/06/2020 6:27:16 PM PDT by Songcraft
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To: willk
RC was the best cola. So hard to find now.

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.


22 posted on 04/06/2020 6:27:16 PM PDT by amorphous
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To: Songcraft

The more you eat the more you fart.


23 posted on 04/06/2020 6:28:56 PM PDT by CJ Wolf ( #wwg1wga #gin&tonic #godwins)
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To: centurion316

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.


24 posted on 04/06/2020 6:30:51 PM PDT by irishjuggler
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To: NonValueAdded
Beans are good for the heart, I’ve heard

Mommy told me not to put them in my ears.

25 posted on 04/06/2020 6:32:38 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: CJ Wolf

And so much better, you will feel.

26 posted on 04/06/2020 6:34:26 PM PDT by Songcraft
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To: nickcarraway

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.


27 posted on 04/06/2020 6:41:30 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
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To: nickcarraway

Ummmm.....does this mean sugar isn’t good for you? Who ever would have guessed!


28 posted on 04/06/2020 6:41:42 PM PDT by Mr Rogers (Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: nickcarraway

Oh oh, I think soda is flowing thru my arteries.


29 posted on 04/06/2020 7:25:35 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (homeless guy. He just has more money....He the master will plant more cotton for the democrat party)
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To: BipolarBob

if its a dark caramel colored soda phosphoric acid is an issue along with either the sugar, or the fake sweetener.


30 posted on 04/06/2020 7:30:47 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: EvilCapitalist

Deftly played


31 posted on 04/06/2020 7:48:48 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("Sorry, your race card has been declined. Can you present any other form of argument?")
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To: willk

DG carries it


32 posted on 04/06/2020 7:49:28 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("Sorry, your race card has been declined. Can you present any other form of argument?")
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To: nickcarraway

Sounds like a sugar problem, not a soda problem.


33 posted on 04/06/2020 8:13:42 PM PDT by tiki
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To: nickcarraway

Wow - maybe Bloomberg really did save a lot of lives......did he approve that message?


34 posted on 04/07/2020 3:56:05 AM PDT by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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