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When it comes to losing weight cutting down on liquid calories is equally important said Dr. K.K. Aggarwal, Padma Shri and Dr B C Roy National Awardee and President, Heart Care Foundation of India.
“Weight loss from liquid calories is greater than loss of calorie intakefrom solid food, as per Dr. Liwei Chen, an assistant professor of epidemiology at the School of Public Health at the LSU Health Science Center in New Orleans, in American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
Body is able to self-regulate its intake of solid food. If you eat too much solid food at lunch, you’ll tend to eat less at dinner. But the same self-regulation is not there for what you drink. The body does not adjust to liquid calories, so over time, you gain more weight.
Cutting back on calories from sugary drinks – by only one serving per day –can account for nearly two-and-a-half pounds of lost weight over 18 months.
Beverages are categorized into eight categories
1. Sugar-sweetened beverages (including soft drinks, fruit drinks, fruit punch, or high-calorie beverages sweetened with sugar)
2. Diet drinks such as diet soda and other diet drinks that are artificially sweetened
3. Milk (including whole milk, 2 percent milk, 1 percent and skim)
4. 100 percent fruit and vegetable juice
5. Coffee and tea with sugar
6. Coffee and tea without sugar
7. Alcoholic beverages.
8. Water with no calories.
The best drinks are water, plain soda and tea coffer with no sugar.
