Soda x 365 days = 15 pounds

By Jordan Lite
Daily News Staff Writer

Drinking just one soda a day could pack on an extra 15 pounds a year, a new study says.

"[The facts] will scare a lot of people. The small amount of calories do add up," said Frank Hu, associate professor of nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health and the head of the study, published today in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

Soft drinks - such as nondiet sodas, sweetened fruit drinks and iced teas - account for nearly half of the added sugars in Americans' diets, according to Hu's analysis of 30 studies conducted since 1966.

The sugary drinks are driving the explosion in obesity, the study said, with nearly 130 million Americans now overweight.

These beverages aren't the only culprits, said syndicated columnist Charles Platkin, also known as the Diet Detective.

Think starting your day with a multigrain bagel is healthy? Not so much: it'll move the needle on your scale ahead by 40 pounds come Christmas.

And the jolt from your afternoon frappuccino translates into another 14-1/2 pounds of padding per year.

The extra weight comes when people don't expend as much energy as the calories they are taking in, Hu said.

"The difference between what your budget is and what you exceed it by is what can add up into these unwanted pounds," Platkin said.

Originally published on August 9, 2006

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it's true...i dropped 10 pounds permanently when i cut sugared sodas out of my life.

Anx said:

Did you go to the artificial fake stuff?
How did you do it??

shanti0608 said:

diet root beer is yummy. barq's or a&w.

so is diet dr. pepper and diet cherry 7-up.

you can barely taste a difference.

once i got used to the little bit of difference i COULD tell in those sodas, i tried diet coke and i was fine with it.

now i can't see how anyone drinks regular soda, cuz it tastes like liquid rock candy to me.

Anx said:

Diet soda and any thing with artifical sweeteners in it gives me a major headache!!
Yuck.. I hate taste of it too.

I always drink diet drinks and I'm so jealous of those who miraculously lose 15 pounds just because they switch from regular to diet.

applekisses said:

I have read some interesting reports on how the artifical sweeteners actaully contribute to being more thirty and more weight gain..

shanti0608 said:

i've read some of that stuff too, but i haven't seen that be the case.

shanti0608 said:

well, if you just need something fizzy, there's also mixing sparkling water with cranberry or pomegranate juice. that's pretty yummy too, and a bit lower in calories.

shanti0608 said:

i've read some of that stuff too, but i haven't seen that be the case.

shanti0608 said:

diet root beer is yummy. barq's or a&w.

so is diet dr. pepper and diet cherry 7-up.

you can barely taste a difference.

once i got used to the little bit of difference i COULD tell in those sodas, i tried diet coke and i was fine with it.

now i can't see how anyone drinks regular soda, cuz it tastes like liquid rock candy to me.

shanti0608 said:

diet root beer is yummy. barq's or a&w.

so is diet dr. pepper and diet cherry 7-up.

you can barely taste a difference.

once i got used to the little bit of difference i COULD tell in those sodas, i tried diet coke and i was fine with it.

now i can't see how anyone drinks regular soda, cuz it tastes like liquid rock candy to me.

Anx said:

Ditto...but, I imagine if you drink enough of anything it will cause you to gain weight.

What in the world is wrong w/ just drinking plain ol' water, people!

Heiress said:

I can't drink just water with a meal, makes me feel like a prisoner or something I like something with flavor for meals & water to sip on between meals

CalhounSq said:

wine. red wine. that's what you need.

sugary pop = gross (kid stuff)

this thread made me get up and go to the kitchen for a glass of Coke

you're all bad influences on me

ZombieKitten said:

Byron?

Heiress said:

Like I said I don't drink much soda

& I'm not a wine drinker, hard liquor/champagne or bust for me

CalhounSq said:

no, i'm just saying, soda with meals sounds gross. champagne with meals, why not?