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“Avoid all sugary drinks, as they provide ’empty calories’ that don’t fill you up. The sugar may uniquely act on the liver to produce belly fat.”
—Dr. Dean Schillinger, chief of the University of California, San Francisco Division of General Internal Medicine
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