Consuming more sugar-sweetened beverages

  • Drinking just one regular soda a day is the equivalent of consuming over 221,000 sugar cubes over an average lifetime.
  • Evidence shows that SSBs are major contributors to childhood obesity [19][20], as well as to long-term weight-gain, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease [21][22].
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