Soda Pop Fat?
According to a recent AP article, there is a movement afoot to scientifically link the high consumption of soda in the U.S. with the alarming obesity rate, to identify this liquid intake as a cause of this health concern.
Why, you may wonder? Why “prove” soda intake helps make you fat?
Well, apparently doing so opens the door for sales restrictions, and governmental oversight such as additional taxes (to discourage consumption) and maybe even label warnings.
As you might imagine, there are leading players on both sides of this “discussion.”
I do find it alarming that, according to the article, soda is the nation’s single biggest “food”!! Aye-yi-yi! It seems quite obvious to me that it’s a sweet “treat” food, like a dessert, only in liquid form.
Someone has done an incredible marketing job, I’d say. We, as a nation, bought into it, and now we’re paying.
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