Consuming A Sugar-Sweetened Drink With A High Protein Meal May Prime The Body To Store More Fat,

Drinking a sugar-sweetened drink with a high protein meal primes your body to store more fat,” researchers found. Investigators discovered that “sugary drinks decrease fat oxidation, the process that begins the breakdown of fat molecules.” Fat oxidation decreases proportionately to the amount of protein in the meal, the study found. https://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddisalvo/2017/07/21/this-is-why-drinking-a-coke-with-your-big-juicy-hamburger-is-a-really-bad-idea/#61ee951e36c9 To put this in context, a decent-size hamburger may weigh around 130 grams, about 30 of which are protein. If you slam it down with a glass of sugar-sweetened soda, this study predicts that your fat metabolism will decrease somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 grams. And that’s not all that happens, report the researchers. “This combination [of a sugar-sweetened drink with a high protein meal] also increased study subjects' desire to eat savory and salty foods for four hours after eating." So in addition to burning less fat, your body is also on the hunt for something salty, which is probably going to be found in a less-than-healthy snack.