embedded into the wall of a building in the Mission Bay neighborhood of San Francisco, California, July 11, 2018. Imagine that you are at work and thirsty. How easy is it to get a soda or some other sugary drink? Not too easy? Easy? Very easy? Open-your-eyes-and-it-will-be-in front-of-you-easy?
Therefore, before this sales ban went into effect, a research team at UCSF thought that this would be a great opportunity to measure the impact of such a workplace ban. As Epel, first author of the study, a health psychologist, andsaid, “Many hospitals have recently been implementing bans on selling sugar-sweetened beverages, but no one had really evaluated the effects on consumption and health.”
The team also asked each participant how many sugar-sweetened beverages he or she consumed each day and did blood tests to assess each participant’s level of insulin sensitivity. Insulin is the hormone normally secreted by your pancreas that helps regulate sugar in your body and sugar move from your bloodstream into the your cells.
How sweet then were the results of the study? Well, just ten months after the ban had started, the average daily consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages had gone down from 1050 mL to 540 mL per participant. That was a 510-mL drop, which amounted to a 48.6% decrease. The participants who had received the “motivational intervention” experienced on average a greater drop than those who had not .
Epel explained that “the study period was too short to see significant changes in weight but abdominal fat is sensitive to sugar intake, and we saw significantly reduced waist lines.” Of course, 12 months is not 15 months, which is not two years, which is not a decade. So, yes, the study did have its limitations and could not tell you if the changes were sustainable over several years. The study also did not track what concurrently happened with other habits such as eating and exercise. Moreover, different workplaces can be quite different, so the question remains: would such a ban have the same effects elsewhere.
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This is a loooooooong article to tell you cutting sugar out of your diet helps you lose weight and is healthy. Stop drinking sugary nasty soda
But what about sugar in Coffee? How often is coffee consumed at the school?