I was watching a recent television ad depicting a Coca-Cola delivery man attempting to quietly buy a bottle of Pepsi-Cola in a food store. Store employees kept looking at him which raised his anxiety higher as he sheepishly stepped up to the cashier. Lo and behold, he's the big winner in a drink Pepsi contest. The confetti drops, the music plays, horns blow, and everyone gathers around him taking pictures as his prize, multiple cartons of Pepsi-Cola, are stacked up behind him.
As it turns out, our mythical Coca-Cola employee may not be much different than the average American. The Beverage Marketing Corporation reports that on average we drink nearly 45 gallons of soft drinks every year.
What does 45 gallons look like? If your car has a 12-gallon gas tank, you would need to fill it up three times from empty plus a fourth fill of nine gallons. That's about 12 ounces every day.
How Do Sodas Make Me Fat? Let Me Count the Ways
Just how many calories and how much sugar do soft drinks have? According to the website http://SugarStacks.com, a 12-ounce bottle of Coke has 39g of sugar for 140 calories.
How about a 32-ounce (28-ounces of soda + 4-ounces of ice) 7-11 Big Gulp? You'll have an added 91g of sugar with 364 more calories in your body.
Considering the average adult male will maintain his current weight by consuming about 2,500 calories a day and females will do the same with 2,000 calories, that one Big Gulp accounts for about 15% - 18% of daily weight maintenance intake. If you're attempting to lose weight by reducing calories, that one Big Gulp represents an even largeer percentage of daily calorie consumption. Do you really want to spend your calories on soft drinks?
Soft Drink Challenges
The challenges with soft drinks don't stop with high sugar, to include high fructose corn syrup in many beverages. "Men's Health" writers David Zinczenko with Matt Goulding posted a blog article on January 24, 2012 titled, "3 Surprising Reasons to Give Up Sodas". Those three reasons are:
- Sodas fatten up your organs
- Sodas contain flame retardants
- Drinking soda makes you a lab rat
In an odd defense to a lawsuit filed by a man who claimed he found a mouse carcass in a can of Mountain Dew, Pepsi Cola Company asserts that's impossible. Why? Because a mouse carcass would have dissolved in the Mountain Dew before the man could have found it. It would, they claim, have become a "jelly-like substance". One might wonder what it's doing to the stomach and other organs.
If you're serious about achieving a healthy weight and you drink sodas, diet or regular, now is a great time to make a different choice.
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