{"id":2928,"date":"2009-06-04T05:41:37","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T03:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=2928"},"modified":"2015-10-17T08:38:26","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T06:38:26","slug":"soda-is-the-next-tobacco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=2928","title":{"rendered":"Soda is the next tobacco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I believe soda is the next tobacco,&#8221; said Barry Popkin, director of the University of North Carolina&#8217;s Interdisciplinary Obesity Center and author of <em>The World is Fat<\/em>, published this year. Soda drinkers haven&#8217;t achieved pariah status like smokers before them, but proposed sugar taxes and social pressure to be healthy can put a damper on drinking softdrinks &#8212; and even some in the growing ranks of diet pop drinkers are feeling soda shame.<\/p>\n<p>According to Popkin, Americans are consuming up to 300 more calories per day now than they were 25 to 30 years ago, and two-thirds of that increase is from caloric beverages like soft drinks, sports drinks, energy drinks, fruit juice and milk. While milk has important vitamins and minerals, the sugary beverages &#8220;have no health benefits,&#8221; Popkin said. And studies show people who drink caloric beverages don&#8217;t compensate by cutting out other food, so the calories add up, he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/health\/sfl-soda-pop-060209,0,1094352.story?track=rss\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I believe soda is the next tobacco,&#8221; said Barry Popkin, director of the University of North Carolina&#8217;s Interdisciplinary Obesity Center and author of The World is Fat, published this year. Soda drinkers haven&#8217;t achieved pariah status like smokers before them, but proposed sugar taxes and social pressure to be healthy can put a damper on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2928"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4342,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928\/revisions\/4342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}