Hydration Expert Corner

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  "Calories from beverages: an underestimated dietary target for the prevention/management of obesity/type 2 diabetes?" - 3rd International Congress on pre-diabetes and the metabolic syndrome. Nice

  International experts from the ICCR (International Chair on Cardiometabolic Risk), reunited in April 2009 in Nice (France) at the International Congress on pre-diabetes and the metabolic syndrome, highlighted the underestimated effect of sugar sweetened beverages, which, consumed in excess, bring an important quantity of sugar to the body. This added sugar has consequences not only on weight-gain, but also on increased risks of diabetes and cardio-vascular diseases.
  One simple means of reducing the daily intake of added-sugar is based on a change of eating habits, among them substituting sugar sweetened beverages by water, which enables to control your energy intake.

  More:

  Cardio Metabolic Risk e-Journal issue on « Sugar-sweetened beverages: A missing piece of the obesity puzzle? »

  http://www.cardiometabolic-risk.org/cmrejournal/v2i2.php
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  Water as an essential nutrient: the physiological basis of hydration – EJCN

  Article published in European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, a high quality, peer-reviewed journal that covers all aspects of human nutrition.
  How much water we really need depends on water functions and the mechanisms of daily water balance regulation. The aim of this review is to describe the physiology of water balance and consequently to highlight the new recommendations with regard to water requirements.

  E Jéquier ¹ and F Constant ²
  ¹Department of Physiology, University of Lausanne, Pully, Switzerland
  ²Nestlé Waters, Paris, France

  European Journal of Clinical Nutrition advance online publication 2 September 2009; doi: 10.1038/ejcn.2009.111
  

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