How bad is soda for your teeth?
08/17/11 10:13 Filed in: Patient Info | Consumer News
Did you know?
• Soft drink companies pay school districts large royalties in exchange for the right to market their product exclusively in the schools, which in turn boosts pop sales among kids.
• American consumption of soft drinks, including carbonated beverages, fruit juice and sports drinks increased by 500 percent in the past 50 years.
• Americans drank more than 53 gallons of soft drinks per person in 2000. This amount surpassed all other beverages. One of every four beverages consumed today is a soft drink, which means other, more nutritious beverages are being displaced from the diet.
• Today, one fifth of all 1- to 2-year-old children drink soda pop and teens drink twice as much pop as milk compared to 20 years ago when they drank twice as much milk as soda.
• A bottle of pop in the ‘50s was 6.5 ounces. Today, a 12-ounce can is standard and a 20-ounce bottle is common. Larger container sizes mean more calories, more sugar and more acid in a single serving.
• In regular pop, all the calories come from sugar. Soda pop is Americans’ single biggest source of refined sugar.
• In addition to cavities, heavy pop consumption has been linked to diabetes, obesity, kidney stones, heart disease and osteoporosis.
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