Whether we're talking sodas, sports drinks, or juice drinks, beverages are a leading source of both extra calories and extra sugars.
Energy drinks, carbonated beverages, teas, and citric fruit juices all bathe the teeth in harmful acids.
Dentists say sipping fluorescent-colored sports drinks, carbonated beverages and citric fruit juices bathe the teeth in harmful acids.
When people drink too many beverages containing added sugar, such as soft drinks, fruit drinks, energy or sports beverages, they tend to put on weight.
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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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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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.
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.
Soft drinks and other sugar-sweetened beverages are the main source of added sugars in the American diet, according to the statement.
Still beverages like juice and sport drinks increased by 7% in terms of global volumes.
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But the CDC notes that the consumption of sugar drinks -- including non-carbonated beverages -- is higher than it was 30 years ago.
Things get even murkier when drinks are classified as nutritional supplements, not beverages.
The fact that the FDA never approved caffeine in alcoholic beverages raises questions about whether such drinks can be legally marketed.
But he called on soft drinks companies to display clearer warnings on their beverages about the risks of too much sugar and caffeine.
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.
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 fact, he recently split the food operations from the drinks profit engine so that the listed Ichitan will include only beverages.
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Milk companies could have been faster to recognize the opportunity to create milk-based beverages that met growing consumer demand for more refreshing drinks.
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Coca-Cola says it sells more than 1.7 billion servings of beverages every day globally, making it the leader in soft drinks in the world, ahead of other major players like PepsiCo.
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How ironic that in the mad scramble to acquire noncarbonated beverages, which are growing in volume three times faster than fizzy drinks, one of the best-known brands can't find its way to the auction block.
Gary Rodkin, in charge of PepsiCo beverages and foods for North America, sees opportunity in pushing caffeine-free drinks.
But they defended limits targeting sugary drinks with an eye toward soda as a sensible step because the beverages can so readily can contribute to obesity, have little nutritional value and don't offer a feeling of fullness when consumed.
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.
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.
For instances, most fermented drinks need to be boiled at some points, which will kill off bacteria, thus living off alcoholic beverages in times of cholera, others for dysentery and other types of water-borne illnesses.
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.
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