People consume 43 percent more of a food when it is in liquid form compared to when it is in semi-solid form according to a study from researchers at the Top Institute Food and Nutrition in Wageningen, The Netherlands.

Note: The paper made a couple errors in their calculations. The said the increase was 30 percent, but this is not correct. The correct number is 43 percent. Read the entire article | Email this article

A given amount of apples was consumed 10 times faster when in liquid form (apple juice) compare to eating whole apples, and 3 times faster than when consumed in semi-solid form (apple sauce) according to a 1977 study. Read the entire article | Email this article

People consumed 12-19 percent more calories when the food was in liquid form versus solid form according to research from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, USA. Read the entire article | Email this article

Women consumed an average of 104 more calories at a meal when they were given a caloric beverage containing 156 calories to drink with the meal of either cola, orange juice or low-fat milk containing 1 percent fat than when they were given a non-caloric beverage of either a diet soda, water or no beverage according to a study by Barbara Rolls and colleagues at Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Pennsylvania, USA.

In other words, liquid calories tend not to reduce calorie intake the way that solid food does. This has been shown in numerous other studies as well.

Comment: The best weight loss doctor I know tells his patients, "No liquid calories." Read the entire article | Email this article

Black college students consume twice as many calories from sugar-sweetened beverages as white students according to a study from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA. Black students consumed an average of 796 calories per day from sugar-sweetened beverages compared to 396 calories per day for white students. Read the entire article | Email this article

Children who consume sugar-sweetened beverages four to six times per week are more than twice as likely ( 15.4 percent versus 6.9 percent ) to be overweight at the age of 4.5-years-old as children who do not consume sugar-sweetened beverages according to a study by researchers from University of Ottawa in Ontario, Canada. Read the entire article | Email this article

Each additional serving of sugar-sweetened beverages increased the risk of obesity in 12-year-old children by 60 percent according to a recent study by researchers from Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Read the entire article | Email this article

Children who consume at least one 9 ounce soda per day consume, on average, 10 percent more calories than children who not drink soda according to a 1999 study.

For example, the average calorie intake for school-aged children who drank an average of 9 ounce or more of soda per day was 2018 calories compared to 1,830 calories for children who did not consume sodas. Read the entire article | Email this article

In 1999–2004, the average calorie intake from sugar-sweetened beverages was:

• 124 calories or 7 percent of calories for children 2-5 years-old, an increase of 17 calories from 1988-1994


• 184 calories or 9 percent of calories for children 6-11 years-old, an increase of 31 calories from 1988-1994


• 301 calories or 13 percent of calories for children 12-19 years-old, an increase of 24 calories from 1988-1994.

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From 1977–1978 to 1999–2001, the percentage of total calorie intake from sugar-sweetened beverages among children 2- to 18-years-old more than doubled, from 4.8% to 10.3% according to a recent study.
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Preschool children in who consumed one or more sweet drinks, which included soda, juices and fruit drinks, were twice as likely to be overweight as children who consumed less than one of these drinks per day according to a recent study of low-income preschool children in Missouri, USA.

Those who consumed 3 or more sweet drinks per day were not more likely to be overweight than those consuming 1-2 sweet drinks per day. Read the entire article | Email this article