A 2006 study by Harvard nutritionists found sugar-sweetened beverage consumption is linked to higher body weight among adolescents.

2006年，一项由哈佛大学营养学家研究发现，含糖饮料的消费直接导致青少年超体重。

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In a 2004 study, for example, rats that drank a lot of a saccharin-sweetened drink ended up eating much more other food than did rats that had drunk equal amounts of a beverage sweetened with sugar.

举个例子，在一份2004年的研究中发现，喝含有大量糖精饮料的老鼠最终吃下了比饮用等份含糖饮料的同类更多的食物。

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"The investigators examined changes in sugar-sweetened beverage consumption and then its association with change in body fatness or BMI (body mass index), and subsequent deaths from cardiovascular disease, diabetes and cancer, " says Rachel Johnson, professor of nutrition at the University of Vermont in Burlington and chair of the American Heart Assocation's Nutrition Committee, who was not involved in the study.

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As the authors, Bremer et al., note in Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Intake Trends in US Adolescents and Their Association with Insulin Resistance-Related Parameters, (J Nutr Metab. 2010), teens who are low and medium soda drinkers consume considerably less sugar sweetened beverages than high consumers (an overall mean consumption between .05 and 2.5 servings per day respectively, compared to an overall mean of 7.1 servings, or 57 ounces per day).

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