More On Soda!
by
Leanne Ely, C.N.C.
You’ve
heard me harp on the water drinking before and yes,
I’m
going to do
it again. Every time I turn around, there is a new study, new article or
new
information about how rotten these soft drinks are and
how detrimental
they
are to your health. (I guess the people at Pepsi won’t
be
calling me
to be their spokesperson anytime soon, LOL).
Did
you know that soda consumption among American
children
has increased
by 500% in the last 50 years? It’s the biggest single source of sugar in
the diet today. And after the age of 10, sodas are the most consumed
beverage drunk daily—over water, milk or juice.
One 12 ounce can of soda contains 9 teaspoons of sugar. That is equal to
about 1/4 cup of sugar and the average American drinks about2 cans a day,
equally
1/2 cup of sugar and 300 calories of negative nutrition. Get out
your measuring cups and put 1/2 cup of sugar in it. Would you give this to
anyone you love to eat??
The
soda habit could push you a little closer to tooth decay (with all
that sugar, you bet!), diabetes (ditto again on the sugar), osteoporosis
(the phosphorus in soda leeches calcium from the bones), obesity (an extra
300 calories a day—2 sodas-- will result in as much as a 30 pound a year
weight
gain!).
So there you have it, a quick education on sodas. Diet sodas aren’t any
better, btw. Here’s a paragraph from another Food for Thought so we
don’t
have
to rerun it:
“The University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio ran an
eight
year study to study the effects of soft drink use. Sharon P. Fowler, MPH,
who
ran the study, had this shocking statement to say,
“What
didn’t
surprise us was that total soft drink use was linked to overweight and
obesity. What was surprising was when we looked at people only drinking
diet soft drinks, their risk of obesity was even higher.”
For each can of diet soda consumed, a person’s risk of obesity went up
41%!!!”
Listen, Americans drink over 13 BILLION gallons of soda each year. Don’t
you think it’s time we quit the soda habit and help take a million or so
gallons of this stuff off the market so we can get healthier, leaner,
stronger, have better teeth and prettier skin? Those are just some of the
benefits by quitting the soda habit.
It’s
time to drink up—make mine a water!
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