Each year, people in America consume 13.8 billion gallons of sports drinks, soda, sweet tea, fruit punch as well
as other sweetened drinks, a mass intake of sugar that's fueling increasing diabetes and obesity rates in the U. S.
Soda and
other sweetened drinks.
Among these liquids are milk (including breast milk), formula, fruit juice, even watered down fruit juice, and
other sweetened drinks.
The soda tax: Paterson wanted a penny an ounce tax on sugared sodas and
other sweetened drinks.
But if a lot of sugar floods the body all at once, such as when downing a soda or
other sweetened drink, blood levels of insulin may spike.
This doesn't surprise me... consider how much soda or
other sweetened drinks (with loads of HFCS) that the average person drinks daily... this is a LOT of calories from just 1 sole corn derivative.