What's up American Fatties?
The Truth About Soda
Modern Facts that Support Soda as an Unhealthy Beverage
Consumption
With obesity reaching near epidemic proportions and life expectancy decreasing, solutions are being desperately sought to improve an alarming trend. While the lack of exercise and heredity is easily blamed, one item is consistently overlooked ? America's carbonated beverage consumption.
The Average American consumes over 53 gallons per year of carbonated beverages. With a 32 oz soda (the 'large' size in most restaurants) being 320 calories, this means each year an American will guzzle approximately 67,840 calories per year in carbonated beverages. Based on a 2000 calorie diet, this would mean that the number of recommended calories for an entire month would be filled by just carbonated beverages, and provide near nil nutritional value.
With current nutritional information suggesting each person drink 8 glasses of water a day, it becomes increasingly concerning when, according to a Beverage Marketing Press Release, one in every four beverages consumed in America today is a soft drink. In fact Americans drink more soda than they do water on a daily basis.
Soft Drinks are a Modern Threat
Even more concerning, soft drinks are the best-selling product today in our grocery stores. Soda outsells basic food items including fruits and vegetables, taking in over $11.7 billion in sales annually. With these sales figures, Soda ranks as the #3 leading beverage and offers absolutely no benefit to its drinkers over other beverages (including water) besides containing excess sugar.
Portions are too Large
Additionally, beverage sizes at restaurants are steadily increasing. In the late 1950s, if one ordered a soft drink at a restaurant they'd receive an eight ounce soda. In our society today, even the smallest 'child' size is 12 oz's. With soda becoming increasingly cheaper in increasingly large quantities, Americans are being given more opportunities to consume large amounts of sugar increasingly often.
The soda industry itself shows little or no interest in the health of a nation either or the health of the products they're serving and are solely driven by profit. Coca Cola even brags that an average person "enjoys at least one serving of our [Coca-Cola] products every day," a product that continues to increase the risk factor for a multitude of diseases and contribute to the decline of the health of a nation.
Modern Facts that Support Soda as an Unhealthy Beverage
Consumption
With obesity reaching near epidemic proportions and life expectancy decreasing, solutions are being desperately sought to improve an alarming trend. While the lack of exercise and heredity is easily blamed, one item is consistently overlooked ? America's carbonated beverage consumption.
The Average American consumes over 53 gallons per year of carbonated beverages. With a 32 oz soda (the 'large' size in most restaurants) being 320 calories, this means each year an American will guzzle approximately 67,840 calories per year in carbonated beverages. Based on a 2000 calorie diet, this would mean that the number of recommended calories for an entire month would be filled by just carbonated beverages, and provide near nil nutritional value.
With current nutritional information suggesting each person drink 8 glasses of water a day, it becomes increasingly concerning when, according to a Beverage Marketing Press Release, one in every four beverages consumed in America today is a soft drink. In fact Americans drink more soda than they do water on a daily basis.
Soft Drinks are a Modern Threat
Even more concerning, soft drinks are the best-selling product today in our grocery stores. Soda outsells basic food items including fruits and vegetables, taking in over $11.7 billion in sales annually. With these sales figures, Soda ranks as the #3 leading beverage and offers absolutely no benefit to its drinkers over other beverages (including water) besides containing excess sugar.
Portions are too Large
Additionally, beverage sizes at restaurants are steadily increasing. In the late 1950s, if one ordered a soft drink at a restaurant they'd receive an eight ounce soda. In our society today, even the smallest 'child' size is 12 oz's. With soda becoming increasingly cheaper in increasingly large quantities, Americans are being given more opportunities to consume large amounts of sugar increasingly often.
The soda industry itself shows little or no interest in the health of a nation either or the health of the products they're serving and are solely driven by profit. Coca Cola even brags that an average person "enjoys at least one serving of our [Coca-Cola] products every day," a product that continues to increase the risk factor for a multitude of diseases and contribute to the decline of the health of a nation.
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