Seems like the reasons to not eat at fast food restaurants just keep on piling up. Weve heard all about the unseemly practices that go into obtaining their meats and innumerable other horrors.
Brian Merchant, Treehugger
But now, lets look at the quality of the soda fountains–another staple of the fast food experience. A recent study has revealed that a full 48% of soda fountains at fast food restaurants contain coliform bacteria–a bacteria that grows in feces. Oh, and 11% contained E. Coli, too.
The study was done by a team of microbiologists …

LONDON Reuters – If Barry Popkin had his way, sugary drinks would be taxed like cigarettes, and the levy would go up and up until societies were weaned off them and stopped piling on weight.
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A nutrition expert who has advised the U.S. government and health policy makers around the world, Popkin says the epidemic of obesity and weight gain sweeping the globe could be slowed dramatically if people revised the mantra “you are what you eat” to include “you are what you drink.”
Reviving a taste for water could cut between …

September 14, 2009. Chicago Tribune
In some “healthy” school vending machines across the country, soda is out. But rehydrating, sugar-laden sports drinks are still in.
Often promoted by popular athletes as essential thirst quenchers, sports beverages can be beneficial if they’re consumed during or after an intense workout that lasts an hour or more, said Russell Pate, professor of exercise science at the University of South Carolina.
Some research has shown that children will take in more fluids if offered a sports drink rather than water alone.
But sports beverages are little more than …