{"id":412,"date":"2009-05-14T09:30:29","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T09:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/ourladyofweightloss\/2009\/05\/liquid-calories-evil-alluring.html"},"modified":"2009-05-14T09:30:29","modified_gmt":"2009-05-14T09:30:29","slug":"liquid-calories-evil-alluring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/ourladyofweightloss\/2009\/05\/liquid-calories-evil-alluring.html","title":{"rendered":"Liquid Calories: Evil, Alluring and Dangerous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you head off into the summer sun and begin to thirst for a nice, tall, cool drink, sporting an umbrella or not &#8230; consider this!!!<br \/>\nResearchers recently found that &#8216;liquid calories&#8217; pose more of a threat to dieters than real food!   According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/30070941\/\">MSNBC report<\/a>:<br \/>\n<em>&#8220;Among beverages, sugar-sweetened beverages was the only beverage type significantly associated with weight change at both the 6- and 18-month follow up periods,&#8221; said Dr. Liwei Chen, lead author of the study and an epidemiologist at Louisiana State University&#8217;s School of Public Health.<br \/>\n&#8220;Our study supports policy recommendations and public health efforts to reduce intakes of liquid calories, particularly from sugar-sweetened beverages, in the general population,&#8221; she said.<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>What does <em>that<\/em> mean?<\/strong>  It means that if you want to permanently remove your excess weight, you need to steer clear of soft drinks and soda, as well as fruit drinks, fruit punch &#8211; any and all beverages that are sweetened with sugar &#8211; and limit your intake of diet drinks, milk (whole or otherwise), 100% fruit and\/or vegetable juice, coffee, tea with sugar or without and certainly alcoholic beverages.<br \/>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KITT approved.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/100\/import\/KITT%20approved.jpg\" width=\"161\" height=\"160\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: right;margin: 0 20px 20px 0\" \/><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Think about it!<\/strong>  If you were to ingest even one sugary drink, i.e. a 20-ounce bottle of cola at 250 calories, daily for two weeks, you would gain 1 pound. In addition, to excess layers of unwanted adipose tissue (a.k.a. fat), you are increasing your chances of developing diabetes, damaging your kidneys and goodness knows what else!<br \/>\n<strong>Do &#8220;It&#8221; for Your Body!<\/strong>  If you can&#8217;t give up sugary drinks for yourself, do it for your body.  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