Drinking Soda Could Have a Bigger Health Impact Than Smoking

Recently, on the Care2.com website, Dr. Mercola makes the compelling argument that drinking soda potentially has a greater impact on individual and collective health in our society than smoking and that the big soda companies employ many of the same manipulative marketing tactics as Big Tobacco.

Soda consumption of soft drinks, which are loaded with sugar primarily in the form of high fructose corn syrup, is a leading contributor to the rising rates of obesity, diabetes, heart disease and other chronic diseases facing Americans. Despite the growing evidence of the devastating effect that soda can have on our health, massive marketing campaigns from the industry steer the most vulnerable members of society – our kids – away from healthy beverages and toward these sugary drinks.

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