Reduce liquids to reduce weight

GREATER KAILASH, India - March 30, 2013 - PRLog -- When it comes to losing weight, cut down on liquid calories rather than food, said Padam Shri & Dr. BC Roy National Awardee, Dr. KK Aggarwal, President Heart Care Foundation of India & National Vice President Elect IMA.

"Weight loss from liquid calories is greater than loss of calorie intake from solid food, as per Dr. Liwei Chen, an assistant professor of epidemiology at the School of Public Health at the LSU Health Science Center in New Orleans, in American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

Body is able to self-regulate its intake of solid food. If you eat too much solid food at lunch, you'll tend to eat less at dinner. But the same self-regulation is not there for what you drink. The body does not adjust to liquid calories, so over time, you gain more weight.

Cutting back on calories from sugary drinks - by only one serving per day –can account for nearly two-and-a-half pounds of lost weight over 18 months.

Beverages are categorized into eight categories

·         Sugar-sweetened beverages (including soft drinks, fruit drinks, fruit punch, or high-calorie beverages sweetened with sugar)

·         Diet drinks such as diet soda and other diet drinks that were artificially sweetened

·         Milk (including whole milk, 2 percent milk, and 1 percent skim)

·         100 percent fruit and vegetable juice

·         Coffee and tea with sugar

·         Coffee and tea without sugar

·         Alcoholic beverages.

·         Water with no calories.

The best drinks are water, plain soda and tea coffer with no sugar

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About the author: Padmashri & Dr. B.C. Roy National Awardee, Dr. KK Aggarwal is a Senior Consultant, Physician, Cardiologist at Delhi based Moolchand Medcity; President Heart Care Foundation of India; Chairman Ethical Committee Delhi Medical Council and Has served as the Research and Academic Wing Heads of National Indian Medical Association.