Soda Sugar

**Okay, so this is an old post that I wrote. But we'll work on loading this page up in order to categorize our blog better, and you'll hear from Chris shortly.

My hubby used to work as a health specialist at a hospital in the upstate, and obviously now he's an RN. He has a lot of life goals but one of them that I think pretty much ROCKS is that he wants to write a book about health. "A really good book with easy to read charts and pictures and stuff," he says.

A book of simple stuff that can get overlooked. Soda, for instance. We don't drink soda but maybe once every....6 months? Maybe. Probably not even that much. (I'd be a liar if I said I didn't crave a quality root beer every so often.) We stick to water, tea, and coffee, and we do occasionally drink beer and wine with dinner, or socially with friends..but even then, never more than 2.

I like this because soda and other such drinks make ya feel icky, and make your innerds icky too. But I get that they can be totally addicting.

So we decided to measure into a glass the amount of sugar in both a typical canned soda as well as a bottled soda...because not a lot comes to mind when I have to think in grams (the way sugar is listed on soda cans and bottles..I wonder if less people would drink soda if they reported in teaspoons or tablespoons of sugar.) Here they are:

Amount of sugar consumed when you drink a bottled soda (the kind out of the soda machines.)

And the amount consumed in a typical canned soda:

And excess sugar gets stored in the body as fat.

Nobody wants that. Everything in moderation..but maybe less of this.