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Sustainable weight loss is rarely a quick fix. Aside from getting proper nutrition and regular exercise, there is another important factor to consider that can make all the difference in the long term. Quitting soda will not only help you to lose weight but will also improve your health. When consumed on a regular basis, sugary soda and other high-calorie drinks can lead to obesity and even chronic disease. Calories in soda add up quickly, regardless of the brand you buy. The calories in Coke, for example, are fairly straightforward if you drink a single can. There are 140 calories...

The city wanted to bring in more money, in part for early childhood education. But such taxes are disproportionately paid by the poor.Want a soda? You'll pay more for one in Philadelphia, because five years ago, local politicians decided to tax it. They're "protecting" people, they said. The tax would "reduce obesity" and "lower diabetes rates." But their main goal was to bring in more money, which they said would "fund early childhood education" and "help a lot of families." I reported on this five years ago, right after the tax went into effect. My new video updates what happened....

Do you find yourself drinking a sweetened beverage every day? Be cautious, as this habit could increase the risk of chronic liver disease and even liver cancer. It is widely known that consuming sweetened drinks can contribute to obesity and insulin resistance. A recent prospective cohort study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) has further revealed detrimental health effects linked to sweetened drinks, particularly concerning liver disease. The study showed that individuals who regularly consume sweetened drinks face an astonishing 85 percent higher likelihood of developing liver cancer and a 68 percent higher risk of mortality...

Video Sharon Rosel told CBC she caught the bear in the act in the middle of the night outside her home in Earls Cove, British Columbia. "It was about three in the morning, and my dog actually alerted me to something was out there," she said. "So I took a look outside, and I saw the bear and then, later on, looked at my security cameras and saw him enter the yard and smashed the window really quickly." Rosel said she eventually began noticing the bear coming in and out of her car with different cans of soda. "He started...

From the beginning, Tab’s story has been one of perseverance. The brand survived initial low sales, the artificial sweetener scares of the 1960s and 1970s, lukewarm enthusiasm for the product at the corporate level and intermittent consumer availability to become—for a brief period—the most popular diet soda in America. Then, of course, Diet Coke came along. While it never regained its lofty status as the top diet soda, loyal Tab fans kept the brand alive.

It’s a concept that’s been circulating around TikTok as of late — users claim that using Diet Coke as a mixer can make you drunk faster than sipping on spiked regular cola. Taylor Swift had also famously cited vodka Diet Coke her favorite drink in a 2016 interview. But does the mixer truly make Tay feel tipsier? Turns out that the theory is indeed supported by science. Here’s why, according to a recent article by The Mirror. Tiktok creator Loryn Powell (@lorynpowell) tested out the rumor in a video, utilizing a breathalyzer to clock her blood alcohol content (BAC). She...

It may have a new name, but everything inside the bottle is remaining the same.Bottles of Snapple peach iced tea and Diet Snapple peach iced tea on a store shelf As a teenager, I remember traveling to Italy and seeing that, instead of Diet Coke, grocery stores sold Coca-Cola Light. It's the first time I really thought about this use of "diet" and how, yeah, it's a bit odd. According to CNN, "diet" drinks were born out of the success of Diet Rite which launched in 1958 as an option for people who needed to limit their sugar intake. But...

In 1767, the English chemist Joseph Priestley conducted an experiment in a brewery that involved hanging a bowl of distilled water above a beer vat. This unlikely set-up resulted in carbon dioxide infusing the water, resulting in carbonated water. Priestley tasted the water and found it to his liking. He continued his experiments and published the scientific paper “Impregnating Water with Fixed Air” in 1772. But Priestley would become distracted with other projects, such as discovering oxygen and introducing the Unitarian religion to England, and he allowed his experimental work with carbonated water to be expanded by others, resulting over...

PepsiCo’s ex-CEO privately called Vladimir Putin a “great leader” at a high-level meeting in Switzerland shortly after Russia annexed Crimea in 2014 — rankling fellow business leaders even as she cultivated unusually cozy ties with the Russian president, The Post has learned. Indra Nooyi — who ran the Purchase, NY-based soda-and-snacks giant from 2006 to 2018 — raised eyebrows more than once as she aggressively sought to build ties with Putin’s Russia. Her bold investments began to unravel on Tuesday as the company, along with archrival Coca-Cola, said it was suspending soda sales and advertising in Russia. Pepsi shares dipped...

Determined to reduce childhood obesity, Mayor Lori Lightfoot moved Wednesday to stop Chicago restaurants from automatically serving kids meals with sugary, high-calorie drinks. At a City Council meeting, Lightfoot joined City Clerk Anna Valencia in introducing an ordinance that would prohibit Chicago restaurants from serving or marketing pop and other sugary drinks as the “default beverage” with kids meals.

The liquid causing the most damage to your liver may not actually be booze, according to a new study. It’s soda. In the new paper (a collaboration between multiple Massachusetts universities), entitled “Sugar-Sweetened Beverage, Diet Soda, and Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Over 6 Years: The Framingham Heart Study,” researchers looked at the average sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) or diet soda consumption of participants from the long-running Framingham Heart Study, which began in 1948. The new research examined 1,636 descendants of the original study, both offspring and third generation. As the health site Eat This Not That! explains, researchers then weighed these...

I’ve been saying for ages that the sugar composition of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is no different from that of table sugar (sucrose). Oops. A new study in the journal, Obesity, actually measured the amounts and kinds of sugars in 23 kinds of HFCS-sweetened drinks. The findings are summarized in a fact sheet: • The sugar content varied widely from amounts stated on labels. • Some drinks had 15% less sugar than labeled, but others had as much as 30% more. • On average, the drinks had 18% more fructose than expected. • Several brands of sodas seemed to...

After I found Diet Coke in 1982, I drank at the very least three to 4 12-ounce cans almost each day for the following 4 a long time, regardless of the place on the planet I used to be. I used to be the one that prevented sure airways as a result of they solely served Pepsi. Who purchased out a complete retailer’s stock in New Delhi as a result of she feared she won’t encounter one other soda in the remainder of the nation. Who stashed cans in her room when she visited her dad and mom, like an...

I am tired of buying store-bought products that do more harm than good. I am curious if fellow FReepers were using baking soda and Epson Salt on a regular basis and if so what is your favorite tip. Perhaps you have another 'Secret' product that you use.

Replacing saturated fat with healthy fats is the main dietary step people take to improve cholesterol and triglyceride levels. But according to a study published in February in the Journal of the American Heart Association, avoiding soda may also have a positive effect. Researchers from Tufts and Boston universities wanted to explore how people’s intakes of different beverages might affect dyslipidemia, an unhealthy imbalance of cholesterol and triglycerides in the blood that increases the risk of heart disease. They looked at just over 12 years’ worth of data from about 6,000 adult participants in the Framingham Heart Study, a long-term,...

Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg said in 2018 that shifting too much money from the rich and giving it to the poor posed a bigger problem than income inequality. During a Q&A session at a forum with International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde, the former New York City mayor was asked about the future of job creation with the emergence of artificial intelligence. In a lengthy answer, Bloomberg said encouraging the movement of money away from the wealthiest people would slow economic growth. "I think income inequality is a very big problem. But the bigger problem is, you can...

There's more bad news for fans of sugary drinks such as soda and fruit juice. A new study has linked drinking just a small glass of a sugary drink per day -- 100 ml, about a third of a typical can of soda -- to an 18% increase in overall cancer risk and a 22% increase in risk for breast cancer. The research, which looked at more than 100,000 French adults, links consumption of sugary drinks to an increased risk of some cancers. This follows a recent study linking sugary beverage consumption to greater risk of premature death. "The results...

Added sugars should make up less than 10 percent of the total calories a person consumes per day, according to federal health guidelines. For a person consuming 2,000 calories per day, that equates to no more than 200 calories. The average can of soda contains 150 calories, or 75 percent of a person's daily allowance. Researchers found that for every additional sugary drink a person consumed, their risk of dying from heart disease increased by 10 percent. Malik said while the optimal amount of sweet drinks a person should drink is "zero," the risk of drinking one or two per...

Just two diet drinks a day increases the risk of stroke by a quarter, and heart disease by a third DRINKING Diet Coke everyday increases your risk of dying young, experts have warned. Two or more artificially-sweetened drinks a day ups the risk of stroke by a quarter and heart disease by a third, new findings show.

Philadelphia’s outlandish soda tax is what Democratic-party politics looks like when it lets its freak flag fly. So many classic elements are there: (failed) social engineering and “think of the children!” on one side, paid for with a punitive tax on poor people and destroyed businesses, which means destroyed jobs, which in turn means lives upended. What lives? Greedy capitalists with monocles, maybe? No, they’ll be fine. Think of ex-cons trying to regain their footing in society. To review this debacle, in 2017 Philadelphia, seeking to fund a universal pre-K program, slapped mammoth sin taxes on Coke and Pepsi (and...