Taxing soft drinks is just another government money grab, to which I am totally opposed. As for the issue of sugar-laden soft drinks causing obesity—obviously, that is just one of many factors. But, some simple mathematics might be instructive.
Ingesting 3500 calories more than a person burns up will cause one pound of weight gain. Let’s compare two individuals who have the same metabolism and who do the same amount of exercise and have identical diets, except that one drinks a Regular Coke per day (155 calories)and the other drinks Diet Coke (0 calories.) At the end of one year, the Regular Coke drinker will have consumed 155*365=56,575 more calories than his Diet Coke drinking clone. If the latter has no weight gain after a year, the former will have gained 56,575/3500 = 16 lbs. And that’s just in one year, assuming one 12 oz. Regular Coke per day.
Thank God for Coke Zero.
Very true and very good post. I dropped 30 lbs, by dropping carbs (sweets, BEER (ugh), fries and bread) and by doing 30 of cardio in the MORNING.
People, if you do the cardio IN THE MORNING the following happens:
1) you are energized at the office all day.
2) you dont drink as much caffeine and can handle what you do drink.
3) you are tired at night and can sleep
4) you burn fat stores, since you have not eaten yet.
Wife now has hdl of 97 with very good weight (cant say) after having twins and I have gone from 205+ to 174.