Blog #3: Don't Eat This Book- Fast Food and the Supersizing of America

I learned that another contributor to the obesity crisis in the U.S. is the overconsumption of soft drinks. It has recently been discovered that the average American teenager drinks two to three 12-ounce soft drinks a day. This is equal to twenty to thirty teaspoons of sugar every day. Researchers like David Ludwig of Children's Hospital in Boston, feel that consuming soft drinks increases the risk of obesity by at least 50%. Besides the risk of getting type 2 diabetes, soft drinks containing sugar are also bad for the teeth and bones. It seems that the Phosphoric acid in soft drinks pulls the calcium out of bones and teeth, which can cause bone loss later in life.