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Monday, November 19, 2012

Americans Consume Nearly As Many Calories From Alcohol As They Do From Soda

A new government study claims that U.S. consumers intake nearly as many empty calories from alcohol as they do from soda.

"We've been focusing on sugar-sweetened beverages. This is something new," Cynthia Ogden, one of the study's authors and an epidemiologist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told the Associated Press.

The study results, which were published on Thursday, claim that Americans get about 6 percent of all their calories from soda and other sweetened drinks, with about 5 percent coming from alcoholic beverages.

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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Well.... DUH!

Anonymous said...

Someone needs to invent a vitamin fortified beer.It can be called "Vitabeer".If people are going to drink beer why not be as healthy as possible about it?

Anonymous said...

313-Because vitamins(fortified) are not tasty. I'm sure it'd fly in crap beer like Coors or Bud, the folks that drink that don't have any regards to taste.

But there is a sound reason why vitamins usually don't come in chewable forms, not very palatable.

Anonymous said...

I'll drink to that!