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Soda Pop

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I was reading in my science today and they were talking about some of the things that can be dissolved in different types of liquids and pop was one of them.

Here is a really interesting article on “Liquid Candy” (aka Soda Pop)

Here is some of what the article said

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Americans consume gargantuan quantities of carbonated soft drinks and suffer untoward health consequences. Companies annually produce enough soda pop to provide 557 12-ounce cans - 52.4 gallons - to every man, woman, and child.

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That is a big amount of pop, and i don’t even drink pop that much…it makes you some what grossed out!

Here are two more

“Carbonated soft drinks are the single biggest source of calories in the American diet, providing about 7 percent of calories; adding in noncarbonated drinks brings the figure to 9 percent. Teenagers get 13 percent of their calories from carbonated and non carbonated soft drinks.”

“Consumption of carbonated soft drinks peaked in 1998, when consumption was 56.1 gallons per person. In a historic turnaround, consumption was 7 percent lower in 2004. And because some people have switched to diet sodas, the consumption of caloric soft drinks declined by 12 percent.”

I mean come on here 56.1 Gallons per person!!!

Tell me what you think.

Katie