Still beverages like juice and sport drinks increased by 7% in terms of global volumes.
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Dr. DAVID LUDWIG (Director, Obesity Program, Children's Hospital in Boston): We focused on milk, fruit juices, and soft drinks, because these beverages are highly profitable and heavily advertised to children.
However, these beverages tend to be priced at lower rates compared to non-carbonated beverages like fruit juices, energy drinks, ready-to-drink beverages and bottled water.
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Dentists say sipping fluorescent-colored sports drinks, carbonated beverages and citric fruit juices bathe the teeth in harmful acids.
Because of the limits of city authority and exemptions made for other reasons, the ban on supersized beverages doesn't cover alcoholic drinks or many lattes and other milk-based concoctions, and it doesn't apply at supermarkets or many convenience stores including 7-Eleven, home of the Big Gulp.
Caffeine is a particular worry for kids, who have already had their share of problems with products like energy drinks and alcoholic energy beverages.
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Plans to open 10-12 new plants in China to manufacture soft drinks, non-carbonated beverages and snacks.
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"Soft drinks and sugar-containing beverages are the low hanging fruit in public health today, " says Dr. David Ludwig, director of the New Balance Foundation Obesity Prevention Center, at Children's Hospital in Boston.
Such a tax discriminates against the manufacturers, bottlers, retailers, and consumers of sugar-sweetened beverages, while leaving the pocketbooks of those who produce and consume other high calorie drinks and foods untouched.
Energy drinks, carbonated beverages, teas, and citric fruit juices all bathe the teeth in harmful acids.
Soft drinks and other sugar-sweetened beverages are the main source of added sugars in the American diet, according to the statement.
Gary Rodkin, in charge of PepsiCo beverages and foods for North America, sees opportunity in pushing caffeine-free drinks.
Whether we're talking sodas, sports drinks, or juice drinks, beverages are a leading source of both extra calories and extra sugars.
With this deal, DPS will now have the rights to distribute beverages such as Mott?s, Yoo-hoo, Clamato and some other drinks in Australia as well as Snapple in Australia, China, Japan, South Korea and Malaysia.
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What ultimately doomed the regulation was its Swiss-cheese exemptions, tailored to fit state laws and political reality, that exempted alcoholic beverages, grocery stores, convenience chains, and even a carefully constructed class of drinks with more than half milk or certain milk substitutes which contain even more calories than soda.
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The tongue is especially useful when it comes to beverages, such as fruit juices, milk, coffee, mineral water, wine and soft drinks.
But he called on soft drinks companies to display clearer warnings on their beverages about the risks of too much sugar and caffeine.
But are diet drinks in fact worse for you than the sugary beverages already so demonized in the health and obesity conversations in this country?
In March, Monster Energy Corp. decided to begin marketing its products as beverages instead of dietary supplements and said it would include the caffeine content on each can of its energy drinks.
Bloomberg's order won't apply to alcoholic beverages, even though many of those are loaded with calories, especially beers and ales, or to dairy-based drinks.
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