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Each year Americans drink, on average, nearly 600 cans of soda apiece. What does that do to their teeth? Professor J. Anthony von Fraunhofer of the University of Maryland Dental School decided to find out. Fraunhofer and dental student Matthew Rogers took 20 healthy teeth extracted for orthodontic or periodontal reasons, cut them into tiny blocks of tooth enamel and exposed the blocks to a variety of popular soft drinks, including Coke, Pepsi, Mountain Dew, Dr Pepper, Sprite, Canada Dry ginger ale and canned Arizona iced tea. All the drinks weakened or permanently destroyed the enamel. Diet sodas were just...
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Think diet soda helps you lose weight? Think again. According to a study in the International Journal of Obesity, artificially sweetened, low-calorie foods can thwart your ability to regulate how much you eat--if you are a rat, that is. Researchers found that lab animals sometimes fed saccharin-sweetened liquid consumed more food than did rats given an equally sweet but always high-calorie liquid. (Rats given a high-cal supplement the consistency of milk also gained more weight than did rats fed a thicker, pudding-like substance.) The study's authors think the same phenomenon may hold true...
...about soda options? In search of a $1 billion cut in operating costs, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer wrote to employees warning of cuts in perks. The most famous of these, free beverages, he later cautioned, could involve a shift from cooler-based supplies to soda dispensers...
...senior, all of whom stayed until police arrived minutes later. Leong first demanded a cell-phone to call the police, but when none of those present had one to offer, he walked back into the middle of the auditorium and began sipping a departed student’s soda, declaring his intention to wait until police arrived...