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Soft Drinks The Fast Road to Obesity, Diabetes

If you read my twice-weekly newsletter, you know the average can of soda has about 10 teaspoons of sugar, 150 calories, 30 to 55 mg of caffeine, and is loaded with artificial food colors and sulphites. In other words, the easy street to diabetes and obesity. During the course of an eight-year study of some 90,000 nurses, the average weight gain over two four-year periods (1991-1995 and 1995-1999) turned out to be highest among those who increased the number of sugar-sweetened soft...