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I agree with someone's comment about incessant "weight-lossers/diet whores" always going on and on about some fad diet while sipping on a soft drink and never once mentioning <gasp> exercise. I'll leave exercise for a whole other discussion on another day, but as for soda... they just aren't good for us.
I, like many american children through the 80s grew up and became addicted to the colas (mostly a coke household). Well, after college and marriage, and 40 pounds later.. I had to make some changes, and I looked at my diet. When I realized that I was putting away over 100 ounces of soft drinks a day (talk about excess), that was the first thing to go. I went soft-drink free, cold turkey style, in the summer of 99. It made a HUGE difference. When you look at the carbohydrates and calories in one can of coke or mountain dew alone, not to mention the caffeine that your body really doesn't need either, it's sickening. As in my case, most people get plenty o' plenty of their calories and carbs through their day through their generous diets of americana favorites and don't need the extra sugar those colas pump into our system.
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I think that's what they mean by "nickels a day can feed a child." I thought, "How could food be so cheap over there?" It's not, they just eat nickels. - (supposedly) Peter Nguyen, internet hero
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