Cure Your Soda Addiction

[BABY1]

TweetWarning: You need to run two miles to burn off that bottle of Coke. Tempted to switch to water yet?
People are less likely to indulge in unhealthy beverages when caloric contents are translated into physical activity equivalents, a new American Journal of Public Health study found. In the study, teens were less likely to buy a sugar-sweetened beverage—soda and fruit drinks—if its physical activity equivalent was displayed than if it’s calories or percentage daily values were posted.
“Americans don’t have a good sense of how many calories they need in a day, so translating calories into easy-to-understand physical activity equivalents may be more meaningful to consumers than calorie counts,” said study author Sara Bleich, Ph.D., an assistant professor of health policy and management at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.

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Unfortunately, we can’t control what’s printed on your soda nutrition label, but we can do the math for you. Your 20-ounce bottle of soda is roughly the same as:

• Washing dishes or grocery shopping for 76 minutes*
• Unicycling or cleaning gutters for 35 minutes
• Jazzercising or chopping wood for 29 minutes
• Shoveling or skiing for 25 minutes
• Boxing or fast jump-roping for 15 minutes

[6p6]

Tweetnever have drank a lot of soda

[Dzone]

TweetGood info.
I never was a big pop drinker until last year when I got started on Pepsi and Mt Dew Throwbacks. I finally quit a month ago and replaced with H2O. After months of drinking those things, it was easy to quit after I was watching Dr. Oz one day and he was talking about how soda pop freakin destroys the body. That was it. Done. I knew soda was horrible for you, but I needed a kick in the ass to quit. It was easy.

I did the same thing several years ago with alcohol. One day I decided I was going to be a NOn Drinker. Done. Never touched another drop of booze. Alcohol is poison and so is soda pop.

[Yohimbe]

TweetI don't drink sodas. Never was a big soda drinker even as a kid, but I haven't had a soda for a long time.