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Yet Another True Story About Stupid Studies:

•  Oliver Twist Was Well Fed

•  Breathing Bus Exhaust is Stressful

•  Depressed People May Take Drugs To Feel Better

•  Smart healthy people choose foods more wisely than stupid drunks

•  Stressed Out Moms Think Their Babies Are Annoying

•  People Are Groggy When They Wake Up

•  Exercise is Good For You

•  Airport Screeners Probably Can't Stop Spread of SARS & Flu

•  Study on Studies Yields Disappointment!

•  Kids Imitate Their Parents!

•  Lengthy Study with No Findings! A perfect YATSASS!

•  Making Fun Of Fat Kids Depresses Them

•  Drinking Highly Sugared Beverages Can Make You Fat!

•  Americans Prefer Safe & Effective Drugs to Unproven and Dangerous Ones

•  Study Shows Poor & Homeless Drink More Malt Liquor

•  Study on People in Studies Yields Predictable Answers, But Also Raises New Questions

•  Women Don't Like Getting Up to Feed the Newborn While Their Husbands Sleep Like Babies

•  Sperm Levels Drop With Frequent Ejaculation

•  People Who Don't Screw Around Get Less Clap

•  Swimming Can Cause Fluid Build-Up in Lungs

•  People Who Eat A Proper Diet are Healthier and Thinner

•  People who don't wet their pants feel better than people who do

•  Maybe Left Handed Winter Babies have More Brain Cancer, Maybe Not...

•  People who had nose jobs and people who didn't both like the same kind of noses

•  People pass more gas when they are active

•  Kids who spend too much time reading will get headaches

•  People who get drunk think others are more attractive than they do when they're sober

In the old days, My thoughts were more coherent, and I could string together whole sequences of actual paragraphs! Those essays can be found here for those so interested.

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Wednesday, June 01, 2005

Posted 2:24 PM

YATSASS: Drinking Highly Sugared Beverages Can Make You Fat!

The more soda kids drink, the more likely they are to be obese, researchers conclude...

...In one 2003 study, researchers found that, among children ages 7 to 13, those who drank the most soda drank less milk, and got less protein, calcium, phosphorus, magnesium and vitamin A from their diets.

After that study appeared, representatives from the soft drink industry argued that soda cannot be blamed for childhood obesity, which is likely also due to more fast food meals, larger portion sizes, and declines in physical activity...

[we'll save those weasels for another day... but I gotta say, I love the idea that they can actually blame fast food & larger portion sizes ...like, uhm, who invented the Big Gulp, and changed the standard size for a bottle of soda first from 12 to 16 then to 20 ounces?]

...Additional research also suggests that too much soda can increase children's risk of obesity, and decrease their intake of important vitamins and minerals.



And all these years where I thought it was the fat fairy, or just being big boned! Congratulations to you, Dr. Robert Murray of Ohio State University; it had to have taken a lot of time and effort to figure out that if kids were filling up on sugared water that they might not be eating their spinach or drinking milk. As Papa Romano used to say, Holy Crap!; next thing they'll be telling us is that if you eat cheesburgers and french fries instead of fish and poultry you'll get even fatter!

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