Best Put Down that Can of Soda

摘要

Soda is as American as baseball and apple pie, but it is not just Americans anymore who think it is the real thing. Thanks to extensive advertising campaigns and sometimes the lack of clean municipal water, soda pop, sports drinks, and other sugary beverages have become the refreshment of choice in much of the world, resulting in ever higher rates of diabetes, obesity, and cardiovascular disease, enough to result in an extra 184,000 deaths per year globally, according to research by Dariush Mozaffarian, dean of the School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University, Medford, Mass.