• Every day, adolescents get 11% of their calories or 15 teaspoons of sugar from soft drinks.
• Soda drinking increases the odds of obesity more than other foods.

• In the 1950s a typical bottle of soda was 6.5 ounces (88 calories), then it became12 oz (160 calories); now it is 20 ounces (266 calories) and even 64 ounces!
• The number one beverage of children for breakfast? SODA!

• *Soft Drinks include soda, fruit flavored and part-juice drinks and sports drinks

• One third of teenage boys drink at least three cans of soda a day.

• These popular beverages account for more than a quarter of all drinks consumed in the United States. .

• More than 15 billion gallons were sold in 2000.

• That works out to at least one 12-ounce can per day for every man, woman and child.