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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.

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You cracked the case Sherlock. Was this a Canadian investigation?

BTW, before you look it up, Cars go faster now too.

I wish I could get fat.
One time, I didn't have a job, so I sat
on my ass all day long and drank ten
or twelve of those weight gainer shakes
a day, mixing them with chocolate milk
and dunking oreos in them, just trying
to get fat, just to see if I could do it.

After a month, I had gained one pound.
I think i have a parasite.

Who cares. Beer can make you fat too. If you have one Coke or Pepsi a day you are not going to get fat. If I want to drink a 12 pack of Pepsi a day that is my business not yours or anyone else's. Damn, people need to worry about themselves and their own diet instead of worrying what what other people are eating and drinking.

Is this a song ??

Post pics of your tits, we'll talk later :1orglaugh

I saw a report recently that said soda was number 2, milk was number 1, and cereal was number 3.

I like making money... If people are too stupid to realize they are cattle then so be it.