Soft drinks: Public enemy No. 1 in obesity fight?

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PepsiCo, the No. 2 soda maker, gets 64 percent of its volume from soft drinks and only 7 percent from its Aquafina bottled water.

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At Coca-Cola, the No. 1 soda maker, three-quarters of its volume in gallons comes from soft drinks, compared with 8 percent for its bottled waters including Dasani.

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This is something the no-nonsense stewardesses, amply blessed by nature and the effects of consuming cans of those same soft drinks and spare Spam sandwiches, know full well.

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In sum, the small numbers in this study combined with the kind of data collected (limited baseline data, no details of drink ingredient differences) and the narrow demographics do not support the contention that drinking diet soft drinks is going to put you at a risk for a heart attack.

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No doubt something is working well at Wahaha, which is winning in an intensely competitive sector, food and soft drinks.

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