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It could be what you drink.</div> <bR> <div> Even healthy drinks, such as 100 percent fruit juice and milk, can make us fat if we drink too much of them, especially since most American adults consume a whopping 21 percent of their daily calories from beverages, twice as much as the 10 percent recommended by the World Health Organization.</div> <bR> <div> That led a blue-ribbon panel of six leading nutrition experts to devise healthy beverage guidelines that list what we can drink and what we should avoid.</div> <bR> <div> The idea is to help you realize how many extra calories you consume just by what you drink.</div> <bR> <div> The group recommends that people should drink more water and limit or eliminate high-calorie beverages with little or no nutritional value. In addition, unsweetened tea and coffee, skim or low-fat milk and artificially-sweetened beverages are fine in moderation. Anything with sugar--soft drinks, sports drinks, fruit drinks and sweetened tea and coffee--should be avoided.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Healthy Beverage Guidelines: What You Can Drink</B></div> <div> Water: Women should drink at least four servings of water and men should drink at least six servings a day. As much as possible, your beverage needs should come from water.</div> <bR> <div> Unsweetened coffee and tea, iced and hot: Up to eight servings a day of tea and up to four servings of coffee. Do limit caffeine intake to no more than 400 milligrams a day, which is about 32 ounces of coffee and 64 ounces of tea.</div> <bR> <div> Nonfat milk or 1 percent fat milk and fortified soy beverages: Up to two servings. Children and adolescents should drink this much every day.</div> <bR> <div> Diet beverages with sugar substitutes: Up to four servings.</div> <bR> <div> 100 percent fruit and vegetable juices, whole milk, sports drinks: No more than one serving.</div> <bR> <div> Sweetened soft drinks and fruit drinks without nutrients: No more than one serving and less if you're trying to lose weight.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Healthy Beverage Guidelines: What You Should Avoid</B></div> <div> Sugar-sweetened coffee and tea.</div> <div> Whole milk, a source of saturated fat.</div> <div> Sweetened soft drinks and fruit drinks.</div> <div> The study findings were reported in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.</div> <bR> <div> <B>One Drink Is Better for You Than Water . . . Tea?</B></div> <div> If you want to be healthy, stay hydrated during the day by drinking lots of water.</div> <bR> <div> <B>But don't stop there!</B></div> <div> You should also drink three or more cups of tea every day, according to researchers from King's College London, who have dispelled the urban myth that tea dehydrates the body.</div> <bR> <div> In fact, tea may be even better for us than water since it offers extra health benefits, such as protecting against heart disease and possibly some kinds of cancer, reports the BBC News.</div> <bR> <div> Flavonoids, a mixture of polyphenol antioxidants that are found in many foods and plants, are the protective ingredient in tea that promotes good health.</div> <bR> <div> Flavonoids have also been shown to help prevent cell damage.</div> <div> "Drinking tea is actually better for you than drinking water.</div> <bR> <div> Water is essentially replacing fluid," lead study author and public health nutritionist Dr. Carrie Ruxton told the BBC. "Tea replaces fluids and contains antioxidants so its got two things going for it."</div> <bR> <div> In this study, the King's College team examined published research on the health effects of tea consumption and found clear evidence that three to four cups of tea a day will slash the risk of a heart attack.</div> <bR> <div> Tea will also protect against tooth plaque and potentially tooth decay, thanks to fluoridated water.</div> <bR> <div> The effect on cancer prevention is less clear, but there seems to be some protection for certain types of cancer.</div> <bR> <div> The conventional wisdom has long held that tea dehydrates the body. Ruxton says it's just not true. "Studies on caffeine have found very high doses dehydrate, and everyone assumes that caffeine-containing beverages dehydrate," she explained to the BBC.</div> <bR> <div> "But even if you had a really, really strong cup of tea or coffee, which is quite hard to make, you would still have a net gain of fluid. Also, a cup of tea contains fluoride, which is good for the teeth."</div> <bR> <div> The only word of caution: If you're at risk for anemia, you should avoid drinking tea since it can impair the body's ability to absorb iron from food.</div> <bR> <div> The study findings were published in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition.</div> <div> --From the Editors at Netscape</div> <bR> <div> <B>The Surprising One Best Drink For Kids</B></div> <div> If you want your children to be healthy and strong, give them water to drink. Skip juice and milk, both of which can make them fat.</div> <bR> <div> A study from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard University in Boston warns parents that kids who drink the most milk--especially skim milk--are the fattest.</div> <bR> <div> Reuters reports that the three-year survey of 12,829 children aged 9 to 14 showed that those who drank more milk weighed more than those who drank less milk. "Children who drank the most milk gained more weight, but the added calories appeared responsible," the Harvard team wrote in the journal Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine in which the study findings were published.</div> <div> "Children who drank more than three servings a day of milk gained more in BMI than those who drank smaller amounts." BMI is a reference to body mass index, a ratio of height and weight to determine if one is of normal weight.</div> <bR> <div> Surprisingly, the real culprits when it comes to weight gain are skim milk and 1 percent milk.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Why?</B></div> <div> Study leader and biostatistician Catherine Berkey suspects that kids are allowed to drink these two more freely than they are whole milk, which is known to have more calories. "The take-home message is that children should not be drinking milk as a means of losing weight or trying to control weight," Berkey told Reuters.</div> <bR> <div> <B>So what can you give your kids to drink?</B></div> <div> Water.</div> <div> "The basic beverage should be water," Dr. Walter Willett, who worked on the study, told Reuters. "We know that in many parts of the world, kids don't drink any milk at all, and they end up with healthy bones." He said kids can get needed calcium from green, leafy vegetables, such as broccoli.</div> <bR> <div> New Study: Drink THIS Much Water Daily</div> <div> 05-06-2007</div> <div> <B>How much water should you drink every day?</B></div> <div> The latest study from researchers at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City concludes that the old standby of eight glasses a day still holds.</div> <bR> <div> Here's the surprising gotcha: If you don't drink enough water, the greatest effect may not be physical--it's mental and emotional.</div> <bR> <div> Drink just half the recommended amount of water, and you'll likely suffer from mild dehydration.</div> <bR> <div> You'll also have less energy, and you won't be able to concentrate and focus as you normally would.</div> <bR> <div> "For people who aren't exercising a lot or living in a very warm climate, eight glasses of water a day may be a good rule of thumb," lead researcher Dr. Wayne Askew told Reuters. If you do exercise and sweat a lot, then you need more than eight glasses to properly hydrate your body.</div> <bR> <div> Our bodies need water, primarily because water makes up more than 70 percent of solid body tissue. It helps regulate body temperature, carries nutrients and oxygen to cells, removes waste, cushions joints, and protects organs and tissues, explains Reuters.</div> <bR> <div> Too little water can cause headaches, grogginess, and dry, itchy skin. When we become severely dehydrated, it can affect our blood pressure, circulation, digestion, kidney function, and nearly all body processes.</div> <bR> <div> The experiment: For 12 weeks, 10 thirsty college students each drank four, eight, or 12 eight-ounce glasses of water per day in four-day test cycles. Between the test cycles the students consumed the amount of water they normally would, as well as during one other week during the study period.</div> <div> The students' hydration status was measured at the end of each four-day water consumption cycle. They also answered questions about their general well being.</div> <bR> <div> The results: Drinking four glasses of water caused the students' blood plasma volume to fall five percent below those who drank eight glasses of water. Four glasses of water also produced more highly concentrated urine.</div> <bR> <div> Still, these physical symptoms of dehydration are considered mild--a suboptimal hydration level. What surprised the researchers was the effect this mild dehydration had on the students' well being. Reuters reports that when students drank the least amount of water, they reported feeling less energetic and less focused than when they drank more water.</div> <bR> <div> If eight glasses of water a day is good, is more than that even better? Probably not, although it won't hurt you. Those who drank 12 glasses had blood plasma volumes that were 10 percent higher, but their well being was not impacted positively or negatively.</div> <bR> <div> The findings were presented at the annual Experimental Biology meeting in San Diego, California.</div> <bR> <div> <B>10 Tips For People Who Hate Exercise</B></div> <div> Everybody has heard about the health value and importance of exercise. And yet, most of us continue to avoid working out. Just three in 10 American adults get the recommended amount of physical activity, according to the National Institutes of Health.</div> <bR> <div> Exercise is an important investment in your long-term well-being. Yet, many people cannot stand the thought of working up a sweat on a regular, or even occasional, basis. 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