http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. It's about to get difficult finding a can of regular Sprite in the United Kingdom. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-coca-cola-sweetener-uk-sprite.html Health Wed, 06 Mar 2013 11:34:34 EST news281792068 Coca-Cola became one of the world's most powerful brands by equating its soft drinks with happiness. Now, for the first time, it's addressing a growing cloud over the industry: obesity. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-coca-cola-obesity-ads.html Overweight and Obesity Mon, 14 Jan 2013 08:26:57 EST news277374409 New research suggests that drinking sweetened beverages, especially diet drinks, is associated with an increased risk of depression in adults while drinking coffee was tied to a slightly lower risk. The study was released today and will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology's 65th Annual Meeting in San Diego, March 16 to 23, 2013. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-diet-soda-sweetened-linked-depression.html Health Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:00:04 EST news276874682 In Laura West's household, a 24-pack of Diet Coke lasts about a week. She drinks two or three a day, her 15-year-old-son Michael at least that many. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-no-calorie-no-worry-sodas-necessarily.html Health Thu, 13 Dec 2012 11:50:01 EST news274619117 Children and adolescents consume more calories and soda and have poorer nutrient-intake on days they eat at either fast-food or full-service restaurants, as compared to days they eat meals at—or from—home. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-kids-consume-soda-calories.html Health Mon, 05 Nov 2012 16:00:02 EST news271335253 Soda consumption, TV and video/computer games, and the frequency of meals heavily influenced students' weight in an Indiana University study that examined the impact of a school-based obesity intervention program over an 18-month period. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-soda-consumption-screen-team-sports.html Health Tue, 30 Oct 2012 07:40:02 EST news270798334 (AP)—Soft drink makers, restaurateurs and other businesses are suing to block New York City's move to end the sale of super-sized, sugary drinks in many eateries. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-industry-sues-nyc-crackdown-sugary.html Health Fri, 12 Oct 2012 16:52:14 EST news269279526 (AP)—New York City cracked down on the sale of supersized sodas and other sugary drinks Thursday in what was celebrated by some as a groundbreaking attempt to curb obesity but condemned by others as a blatant intrusion into people's lives by a busybody mayor. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-nyc-big-sugary-eateries-theaters.html Health Thu, 13 Sep 2012 12:22:20 EST news266757726 (AP)—One of New York City's most ambitious efforts to prod residents to live healthier appears poised to pass as a health panel takes up a plan to cut down sales of big-sized sodas and other sugary drinks. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-nyc-big-soda-crackdown-vote-thursday.html Health Thu, 13 Sep 2012 07:57:25 EST news266741839 (AP)—On death row, last meals tend to be high in calories and heavy on meat. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-condemned-inmates-comfort-foods.html Other Wed, 29 Aug 2012 03:47:41 EST news265430852 Preschoolers from low-income neighbourhoods and kids who spend more than two hours a day in front of a TV or video-game console have at least one thing in common: a thirst for sugary soda and juice, according to research from the University of Alberta. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-income-screen-affect-soda-junk.html Health Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:17:40 EST news264856610 It sounds like a no-brainer: To cut your sugar intake, just switch to foods and drinks with no-calorie, artificial sweeteners. That way, you’ll still satisfy your sweet tooth without packing on the extra pounds, right? Unfortunately, there’s little scientific evidence supporting the theory. On July 9, the American Heart Association and the American Diabetes Association issued a scientific statement that, while encouraging Americans to reduce the added sugar in their diets, notes that the data are inconclusive about the effectiveness of using non-nutritive sweeteners to lose excess weight. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-christopher-gardner-non-nutritive-sweeteners.html Health Tue, 10 Jul 2012 07:58:54 EST news261125925 (HealthDay) -- Non-nutritive sweeteners like Splenda, Equal and Sweet'N Low may have a role to play in maintaining or even losing weight, as long as people don't use them as an excuse to treat themselves later with high-calorie goodies. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-major-medical-groups-sweeteners-diet.html Health Mon, 09 Jul 2012 19:50:02 EST news261074811 The human airway is a pretty inhospitable place for microbes. There are numerous immune defense mechanisms poised to kill or remove inhaled bacteria before they can cause problems. But cystic fibrosis (CF) disrupts these defenses, leaving patients particularly susceptible to airway infection, which is the major cause of disease and death in CF. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-cystic-fibrosis-airways-acidic-bacterial.html Medical research Wed, 04 Jul 2012 13:06:34 EST news260625979 The food and beverages available to youth when they participate in organized sports can often be unhealthy, according to a new study released in the July/August 2012 issue of the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior. The findings were based on interviews with parents of players participating in youth basketball programs. Common food in youth sport settings were sweets (eg, candy, ice cream, doughnuts), pizza, hot dogs, ''taco-in-a-bag,'' salty snacks (eg, chips, cheese puffs, nachos), as well as soda pop and sports drinks. Parents also reported frequent visits to a fast-food restaurant (eg, McDonald's, Dairy Queen) when their children were playing sports. Parents told researchers they considered these to be unhealthy. Parents said their busy schedules getting to practices and games made them rely more on convenient, but less healthy, foods and beverages. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-parents-healthy-youth-sports.html Health Tue, 19 Jun 2012 15:54:01 EST news259340034 Attention, college students cramming between midterms and finals: Binging on soda and sweets for as little as six weeks may make you stupid. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-sugar-stupid-high-fructose-diet-sabotages.html Health Tue, 15 May 2012 14:56:14 EST news256312547 Water could change the way we eat. That's the conclusion of new research by T. Bettina Cornwell of the University of Oregon and Anna R. McAlister of Michigan State University. Their findings appear online this week ahead of regular publication by the journal Appetite. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-early-meals-wiser-choices.html Health Mon, 14 May 2012 13:54:51 EST news256222384 Researchers from Cleveland Clinic's Wellness Institute and Harvard University have found that greater consumption of sugar-sweetened and low-calorie sodas is associated with a higher risk of stroke. Conversely, consumption of caffeinated or decaffeinated coffee was associated with a lower risk. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-soda-consumption.html Cardiology Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:59:12 EST news254138339 A $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health will enable University of Arizona biomedical engineering researchers to improve the way doctors measure the effectiveness of drinking baking soda to fight breast cancer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-grant-fuel-soda-cancer-therapy.html Cancer Mon, 02 Apr 2012 09:17:41 EST news252577047 (HealthDay) -- Drinking a diet soda before a glucose load is associated with increased glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) secretion in individuals with type 1 diabetes and healthy controls, but not in those with type 2 diabetes, according to research published online March 12 in Diabetes Care. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-diet-soda-linked-glucagon-like-peptide.html Diabetes Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:20:02 EST news251650831 France's top constitutional body on Wednesday approved a new tax on sugary drinks that aims to fight obesity while giving a boost to state coffers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-france-soda-tax.html Health Wed, 28 Dec 2011 10:54:14 EST news244292048 About 14 percent of Philadelphia's high school students are considered overweight, and while a myriad of research has been published on what schools, communities and parents can do to help curb these rates, very little information exists on what the teens themselves are doing to lose weight. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-overweight-teens-weight-wrong.html Overweight and Obesity Tue, 01 Nov 2011 04:27:50 EST news239340425 Half of Americans drink a soda or sugary beverage each day - and some are downing a lot. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-americans-daily-soda-sweet-beverage.html Health Thu, 01 Sep 2011 03:25:12 EST news234066254 Got lots of fast food restaurants and other outlets that sell junk food in your neighborhood? Then your teen is more likely to nosh regularly on burgers and fries and wash them down with a soda. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-unhealthy-food-outlets-teens-junk.html Health Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:20:05 EST news230994219 Research to be presented at the upcoming annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior (SSIB), the foremost society for research into all aspects of eating and drinking behavior, indicates that caffeine added to sugar-sweetened, carbonated beverages teaches adolescents to prefer those beverages. Researchers found that the amount of caffeine added to an unfamiliar beverage was correlated with how much teenagers liked that beverage. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-caffeine-flavor-adolescents.html Health Tue, 12 Jul 2011 02:49:56 EST news229657772 You are making a healthier choice when opting for a diet soda instead of a calorie-laden drink, but beware that you don’t sabotage your good behavior by indulging in extra-calorie foods, said an obesity specialist at Loyola University Health System. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-diet-soda-doesnt-fat-.html Health Mon, 04 Jul 2011 06:23:42 EST news228979408 (Medical Xpress) -- To many, a tax on soda is a no-brainer in advancing the nation’s war on obesity. Advocates point to a number of studies in recent years that conclude that sugary drinks have a lot to do with why Americans are getting fatter. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-soda-tax-curb-obesity.html Health Tue, 28 Jun 2011 04:54:23 EST news228455636 In the constant battle to lose inches or at least stay the same, we reach for the diet soda. Two studies presented June 25 and 27 at the American Diabetes Association's Scientific Sessions in San Diego suggest this might be self-defeating behavior. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-illusion-artificial-sweeteners.html Health Mon, 27 Jun 2011 16:41:33 EST news228411592 It works every time? The marketing and rebranding efforts for the fruity flavored malt beverage "Blast by Colt 45," referred to as "binge in a can" by its critics, are "irresponsible" from a health perspective but admittedly effective, says Antonio Williams, a fitness and marketing expert in Indiana University's School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-04-expert-sources-potent-alcoholic-beverages.html Health Thu, 28 Apr 2011 07:16:40 EST news223193630