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Ten Reasons to Avoid Soda
The average American drinks approximately 56 GALLONS of soda a year. Some people even admit to drinking more soda than water each day, or no water at all. Soft drinks are a multi-billion dollar product, and they account for a quarter of all drinks consumed in the United States.
With Americans consuming this large amount of soft drinks each year, it becomes important to evaluate how soft drinks can influence a person’s health. With a little research, it becomes clear that even moderate consumption of soda can be dangerous.
10 Reasons to Avoid Drinking Soda
- The Sugar! - A single can of soda contains the equivalent of 10…
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Can American Craft Sodas Save the Soft Drink Industry?
Soda has a bad rap: It’s blamed for obesity, diabetes and tooth decay. Yet, in an era of keto diets and intermittent fasting, the maligned “junk” food is being resurrected as an artisanal treat. Craft soda, usually defined as small-batch soda made with natural sweeteners, has managed to skirt the unhealthy reputation: It’s viewed as part of the local-food movement.
Fool Me Twice
Multinational food, soda and alcohol giants are employing the same tactics that made tobacco a pariah in the global public health conversation nearly two decades ago.
Are Americans replacing soda with something worse?
As public health officials and experts work to solve America's obesity and diabetes epidemics, they're increasingly turning to one ingredient as the culprit: added sugar. Despite signs that more Americans are quitting sugar-loaded soda, researchers worry the general public is still consuming too much added sugar through other means.
Coca-Coca Shuts Down Anti-Obesity Network But Still Teaches
Public health experts have long criticized the soda industry’s focus on energy balance as a tactic to deflect attention from its unhealthy portfolio of sugary drinks.
Did America Get Fat by Drinking Diet Soda?
A high-profile study points the finger at artificial sweeteners.
Does Drinking Soda Really Age Your Cells?
How the science of telomeres turned into a spurious health trend.
Here’s Another Reason You Might Want to Quit Diet Soda
Evidence about just how terrible diet soda is for your health is mounting. The latest? People who consumed at least one diet drink a day were nearly three times as likely to have a stroke or develop Alzheimer's disease compared to people who had them less than once a week, per new research in the journal Stroke. And you thought saving the calories and sugar would be worth it.
How Bad Is Soda, Really?
It’s a well-known adage: Drinking too much soda is bad for you. But just how bad is excessive soda consumption for your body?
People Explain How Soda Addiction Is Ruining Their Life
"A slight headache signals my need for a soda. It doesn't matter to me if it's warm or cold. And I like all brands. The cheap kinds contain aspartame. I think I'm addicted to that too."
Phony Big Soda-Funded Coalitions Continue To Spring Up Wherever A Soda Tax Is Proposed
Many of these coalition website domain names used to be registered to Goddard Claussen/Goddard Gunster. Their registration is now more secretive through companies like Domains By Proxy, Inc., which allows registrants to remain anonymous.
Soda Loses Its U.S. Crown: Americans Now Drink More Bottled Water
Americans now officially drink more bottled water than soda. It’s a shift that decades ago might have seemed unthinkable—that consumers would buy a packaged version of something they could get free from a tap. But bottled-water sales have been growing in the U.S. ever since the arrival of Perrier in the 1970s. The gains accelerated in recent years amid concerns about the health effects of sugary drinks and the safety of public-water supplies.
Study: diet soda can really mess with your metabolism
New research helps explain why artificial sweeteners are linked to obesity and metabolic disease.
Taxing drinks gives pols a sugar rush
There have been studies coming to various conclusions about soda taxes, but the bottom line is that they aren’t fair and, for the most part, they don’t work.
The Average Mexican Now Drinks 371 Bottles of Soda a Year
Free trade is making other countries fat and sick.
The End of Soda?
Are we truly witnessing the first stages of soda's demise, the early signs of decay in America's 200-year love affair with soft-drinks? And if so, does that mean trouble for drink makers?
The Science of Shamelessness: Corporations, Scientists, and Spinning the Facts
Coca-Cola wants you to believe that, contrary to conventional wisdom, empty-calorie beverages like Coke don't contribute to obesity. And they're willing to pay scientists to peddle their message.
The science of why you might want to kick your diet soda habit
Diet sodas have long been marketed as weight loss tools. The idea is that they allow people to enjoy the sweetness of regular soda, but without all the calories and weight gain. Some scientists, however, are highly skeptical that diet soft drinks, which contain artificial sweeteners, actually deliver on those marketing claims. And evidence seems is mounting that diet sodas and artificial sweeteners may actually promote weight gain.
Why diet soda is (probably) bad for you, according to science
Why researchers who study artificial sweeteners avoid diet drinks.
Ten Reasons to Avoid Soda
Soda may taste good and it certainly seem to have some addictive properties (ask any self-proclaimed Diet Coke addict!) but the bottom line is that soda isn’t healthy in any amount and there is absolutely no reason or justification for consuming it.
13 Ways That Sugary Soda is Bad For Your Health
When consumed in excess, added sugar can have disastrous effects on your health. However, some sources of sugar are worse than others… and sugary drinks are the worst, by far.
5 serious health risks of drinking diet soda
According to several different studies, even though diet drinks supposedly consist of zero net calories, they can have a lot of negative effects -- including weight gain, kidney problems, increased risk of diabetes and increased risk of depression. So if you love diet soda but want to cut your risk of disease, it might be a good idea to kick it to the curb!
8 Reasons Why People Drink Soda & 16 Reasons To Give Up Soda Drinking
Most of us drink soda. Some drink more than others. And probably many regular soda drinkers are aware that soft drinks are bad for the health. At the same time, United States ranks first among countries in soft drink consumption.
Rethink Sugary Drink
By highlighting the amount of sugar in sweetened beverages such as soft drink, energy drinks and sports drinks, we're hoping to encourage Australians to rethink their sugary drink consumption and switch to water, reduced-fat milk or unsweetened options.
KillerCoke.org
The Campaign to Stop Killer Coke originated to stop the gruesome cycle of violence against union leaders and organizers in Colombia in efforts to crush their union, SINALTRAINAL. Since then, violence, abuse and exploitation leveled against Coke workers and communities have been uncovered in other countries as well, notably China, El Salvador, Guatemala, India, Mexico and Turkey.

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