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The Milk Processor Education Program (MilkPEP) studied [1] what folks are gulping down… and it’s not as much milk as they would like it to be.

Nearly half – 50% - of Americans, AGE 4 and older drink a soda on a given day. That pencils out to roughly 25% of their daily calories.

The American Beverage Association claims the average American guzzles 54 gallons of soda a year.

12 ounces of Coke has about 10 teaspoons of sugar.
Sugar in soda accounts for 36% of added sugar in the U.S.

Then there’s the diet species with artificial sweeteners which, all in all, are worse than sugar. New Mexico is proposing banning aspartame – the manufacturing of and contents of – in the state.

Soda… obesity, diabetes, osteoporosis

Put the can down, walk away.