Category Archives: Soft Drinks

Caffeine: Consumption Across the Pond

Posted on January 6, 2017 by Robert Barrington

Caffeine is an alkaloid chemical derived from plants, but also produced synthetically by man. Caffeine belongs to the methylxanthine group of alkaloids, which also includes theobromine found in chocolate and theophylline found in tea. The most common dietary sources of … Continue reading →

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Childhood Feeding Habits Die Hard

Posted on December 9, 2016 by Robert Barrington

Evidence suggests that what we eat as children determines what we eat as adults. Anecdotally, this is probably well known, but scientific evidence supports this contention. For example, researchers investigated the feeding habits of infants over a number of years … Continue reading →

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Predicting Soft Drink Intake

Posted on October 21, 2016 by Robert Barrington

Soft drinks are associated with weight gain. This is particularly true for sugar sweetened soft drinks. Sugar is problematic to body weight regulation when refined and in liquid sources such as sugar sweetened soft drinks because it overloads the liver … Continue reading →

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Soft Drink Consumption Makes You Fat: More Evidence

Posted on October 10, 2016 by Robert Barrington

Epidemiology is the study of disease in populations. In this regard, epidemiology deals with associations. Associations are connections between two variables that may not necessarily be cause and effect. For example, fire engines are found at the scenes of accidents, … Continue reading →

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Sugary Energy Drinks: killing You Softly

Posted on October 9, 2016 by Robert Barrington
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The Problems With Sugar

Posted on August 31, 2016 by Robert Barrington

Evidence Suggests that sugar is partly responsible for the obesity epidemic in Western countries. Sugar, chemically sucrose, and its synthetic cousin high fructose corn syrup, have nutritional properties that may allow them to contribute to obesity. In particular, both sugar … Continue reading →

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Foods Associated With Fractures

Posted on August 27, 2016 by Robert Barrington
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Fructose and Fatty Liver

Posted on April 29, 2016 by Robert Barrington

Refined crystalline fructose has been compared to alcohol in terms of the metabolism it undergoes in the liver. In particular, both fructose and alcohol increase the synthesis and storage of fatty acids in the liver (steatosis). Excess alcohol can cause … Continue reading →

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Which Foods Make Us Fat?

Posted on March 1, 2016 by Robert Barrington

Increasingly it is being evidenced that low quality foods are the cause of weight gain. High quality foods can be eaten ad libitum without changes in body weight, but lower quality foods do not share this property. When low quality … Continue reading →

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Is Industry Sponsored Soft Drink Research Biased?

Posted on September 22, 2015 by Robert Barrington

Funding for scientific research tends to come mainly from governmental bodies, charities or industry. In nutritional research, the food industry provides large numbers of grants to researchers for the investigation of all manner of food related matters. Obviously the food … Continue reading →

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