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The American producer of health content HealthDay reports on the research on risk of obesity led by Ujue Fresan, a PhD student in the Chromatin Structure and Function Lab at IRB Barcelona.
Published in the journal Nutrients, the study found that "drinking a glass of water instead of a beer every day reduced the risk of obesity by 20 percent” and that “Switching one sugar-sweetened soft drink for water every day was associated with a 15 percent lower risk of developing obesity".
The study was presented at the European Congress on Obesity, held on May in Porto, Portugal.
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The Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) pursues a society free of disease. To this end, it conducts multidisciplinary research of excellence to cure cancer and other diseases linked to ageing. It establishes technology transfer agreements with the pharmaceutical industry and major hospitals to bring research results closer to society, and organises a range of science outreach activities to engage the public in an open dialogue. IRB Barcelona is an international centre that hosts 400 researchers and more than 30 nationalities. Recognised as a Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence since 2011, IRB Barcelona is a CERCA centre and member of the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST).
