[SALChamps03]

That's true, but exercise and weight reduction helps control non-insulin dependent diabetes. I just see an awful lot of bottled water being sold. In fact, it has a lot of space in the stores. I don't think Americans drink as much soda as they'd like us to think. We drink a shit load of it to be sure. I also see people drinking a lot of bottled water. Let's not also forget that diet drinks with zero sugar sell well too.

[Ditto]

I don't think Americans drink as much soda as they'd like us to think.

I don't know how much of it Americans drink, but it is sure as hell a lot more than we consumed 30 or 40 years ago.

I know as a kid, we didn't get it every day, and when we did get it, it was a 6 oz. bottle and considered a treat, not part of a meal. The didn't even sell it in the school cafeteria. Now you see kids sucking this crap down by the gallons, and then bouncing off the walls.

I'm not a neutrition zealot by any means, but a rule of thumb it that too much of anything is bad, and we (especially kids) drink way too much soda.

[Nov3]

I don't think Americans drink as much soda as they'd like us to think.

In the age of the big gulp and the supersize you would be very wrong.