Posted on 03/11/2013 8:44:45 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
NEW YORK — It wasn't too long ago that America had a love affair with soda. Now, an old flame has the country's heart.
As New York City grapples with the legality of a ban on the sale of large cups of soda and other sugary drinks at some businesses, one thing is clear: soda's run as the nation's beverage of choice has fizzled.
In its place? A favorite for much of history: Plain old H2O.
For more than two decades, soda was the No. 1 drink in the U.S. with per capita consumption peaking in 1998 at 54 gallons a year, according industry tracker Beverage Digest. Americans drank just 42 gallons a year of water at the time.
But over the years, as soda increasingly came under fire for fueling the nation's rising obesity rates, water quietly rose to knock it off the top spot.
Americans now drink an average of 44 gallons of soda a year, a 17 percent drop from the peak in 1998. Over the same time, the average amount of water people drink has increased 38 percent to about 58 gallons a year. Bottled water has led that growth, with consumption nearly doubling to 21 gallons a year.
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Doesn’t this prove how stupid the soda bans are?
Seems to me like people are realizing how drinking too much soda is a bad thing. All without Bloomberg holding their hands.
As a guy who takes tap water with him when out and about and on jobs, to save the money and/or calories spent on fluids when away from home, or for lunch, I never understood the bottled water thing, I don’t get people spending 10 or 20 dollars a week for water, which is free.
Think of it as carrying a canteen, except with ice, in a cooler.
Yuppies and liberals love their bottled water, I think it looks silly to see some International world leader holding a bottle of water on TV, as though he is outdoors doing hard labor in July.
Bloomberg to the alert!
I run tap water though one of these:
It is a four stage filter, is bacteriostatic, lasts for 4,000 gallons, requires no special housing or adapters, and costs ten bucks at Walmart. It makes great tasting water and ice.
When I packed a lunch all day in the Arizona sun, I re-used about a dozen bottled water bottles. I would fill them up 90% with filtered tap water and freeze them. They kept my lunch cold and provided me with cold water all day (I carried an medium size igloo cooler.)
I don’t filter my water but at $10.00 for 4,000, that is doable, good suggestion.
As a 6 yr old, if you had said to your Grandmother “Grandma, I’m going to make a million dollars! I’m gonna put tap water in a bottle and sell it for more than gasoline!” she would have smacked you in the back of the head and said “Do your homework or you’ll never amount to anything”.
Hahahaha...so true!! Who knew.
Bottle addiction. Oral fixation. Whatever you want to call it.
They open the bottle, take a tiny sip, screw the cap back on. A couple minutes, later, they open the bottle, take a tiny sip, screw the cap back on. A couple minutes, later, they open the bottle, take a tiny sip, screw the cap back on. A couple minutes, later, they open the bottle, take a tiny sip, screw the cap back on. A couple minutes, later, they open the bottle, take a tiny sip, screw the cap back on. A couple minutes, later, they open the bottle, take a tiny sip, screw the cap back on. A couple minutes, later, they open the bottle, take a tiny sip, screw the cap back on. Etc.
Bottled water is really a stupid buy, unless someone lives in a region with horrible well water.
Noticed that the article didn’t mention beer consumption.
If I drank 11 beers a day that is more than a gallon and would equal 376 gallons a year.
You nailed it, once a person notices it he starts seeing how that nervous routine shows up in situations where it looks rather bizarre and out of place, even in elegant situations where a cheap plastic bottle looks absurd.
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