One Fourth of American’s Calories Come From Soda
Posted in Food - Diet Health Advice, General, Health Conditions, Health Controversies on Jan 16th, 2007
One Fourth of American’s Calories Come From Soda:An interesting study funded by the Milk Processor Education Program (MilkPEP), intended to identify opportunities for milk producers to develop more “value-added beverages,” speaks volumes about how addicted people really are to sugary soft drinks, long considered the leading source of calories among Americans.By the numbers:Almost half of all Americans (upward from age 4) drink a sugary sweet drink — a presweetened iced tea, fruit drink or carbonated beverage — on a given day.Americans drink nearly a quarter of their total caloric intake every day.More than a third of all the added sugars Americans consume come from soft drinks.A look at these numbers on their own demonstrate, without a doubt, why sugary substances like high fructose corn syrup have been targeted as a major culprit in the obesity epidemic.
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