soft drinks

While eating at home allows for the most control over your caloric intake and is therefore the best way to ensure steady weight loss, there are nevertheless times when eating out is inevitable.  Perhaps you are on a road trip or travelling and can’t access a kitchen to make your favourite diet meal.  Perhaps you are staying with family and they are all headed to the local drive-thru.&

Soft drinks have been blamed for higher rates of obesity, tooth decay, bone weakening and caffeine dependance. Here's more bad news for pop drinkers – people who drink two or more soft drinks a week have a significantly higher risk of getting pancreatic cancer.

Barry Popkin, a nutrition expert who has advised the US government and health officials around the world, thinks that sugary drinks should be taxed and a levy should increase the price of pop until societies wean themselves from it.