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Calories from food have the potential to increase the risk of obesity and cardiometabolic diseases, researchers agree that sugar-sweetened beverages are responsible for chronic health problems. The disease risk increases even when the beverages are consumed within diets that do not result in weight gain.
Soda and other sweetened beverages are uniquely harmful to human healthh sugar-sweetened beverages increase cardiometabolic risk factors compared to equal amounts of starch,” said lead author Kimber Stanhope, a research nutritional biologist with the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of California, Davis.
Consumption of polyunsaturated (n-6) fats, such as those found in some vegetable oils, seeds and nuts, lowers disease risk when compared with equal amounts of saturated fats. Dairy foods such as cheese and yogurts, which can be high in saturated fats, have been associated with reduced cardiometabolic risk. A healthy diet pattern consisting of minimally processed whole grains, fruit, vegetables, and healthy fats promotes health compared with the refined and palatable typical Western diet pattern.
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