Easy Way to Lose Weight Lay Off Soda Pop

Research has found that people are now drinking almost 50 additional calories of sweetened beverages daily compared to two decades ago, for an average of about 300 calories per day coming from such drinks. At this rate it doesn’t take long before more pounds are packed on.

So, even if you have the exact same diet as you did 20 years ago and your activity level hasn’t changed, those seemingly harmless 50 extra daily calories could cause you to gain five pounds every year.

Super sizing is one contributor to this increase. One 12-ounce can of soda has about 10 teaspoons of sugar. However, today the old can of coke looks small, but the 20-ounce bottle looks normal.

And another problem is sugar-sweetened beverages which include soda, sport drinks, fruit drinks, punches, low-calorie drinks, sweetened tea and other sweetened drinks can be found anywhere.

Drinking something that tastes good and gives you an energy boost is hard to put down. But the fact that those drinks can contribute to you becoming overweight, obese, type 2 diabetes and heart disease. Soda pop has been shown to remove calcium from bones as well as weaken stomach acid making proper digestion difficult.

Say you are drinking 300 calories a day in sweetened beverages (which is quite easy) – if you stopped you could lose 2.5 pounds a month.

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2 Responses to “Easy Way to Lose Weight Lay Off Soda Pop”

Junk Silver Coins on June 3rd, 2010 at 1:17 am

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Joseph McElroy on June 3rd, 2010 at 1:21 am

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