Friends, imagine that:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/diet.fitness/03/06/soured.onsoda.ap/index.html
proving this would be a scientific leap that could help make the case for > higher taxes> on soda
bottom line
you wanna lose weight, get off your ass, it’s easy…more or less… 
If you’re drinking enough soda to really hurt your weight still, drink diet soda, or, consider something, um , well, idunno, like water!
and,
honestly…and I know no one here wants to hear this…
beer makes you fatter than soda ever will…
and, no I am not a lite beer advocate 
I tried clicking it, but it wouldn’t work?
Didn’t you know it’s forbidden to make words blue unless they are a link, lest they horribly confuse the masses, Tyler Morris? 
Try now.
Don’t you work there?
What ridiculous leap of logic to they use to decide pop should be taxed higher because it’s fattening? What a bunch of morons.
No I just play there!
“I dont wanna grow up, I’m a…”
oh wait, wrong damn company!!! oops!!!
[ravingfoamingatthemouth]
The tax on milk and butter products is next, mark my words!!!
[/ravingfoamingatthemouth]
I remember odd things.
I have no doubt that drinking sodas contributes to overweight. Was there every any real doubt of this?
However, that doesn’t mean that drinking sodas causes overweight; you may have overweight caused by other things, and you may have overweight people who don’t drink sodas.
To use the tired old comparison one more time:
It’s pretty much a given that every person who dies lies (or falls) down.
However, lying down does not cause death.
–James
It might be easy for healthy, able-bodied people…
O h i thought this was about pop music!!
http://www.rte.ie/arts/2002/0731/popidol.html
Yes, I’ve seen those articles recently. I’m sitting here drinking a coke at the moment. Usually it’s tea in the afternoon, but I just felt like a coke.
Like most such “revelations” it would be a little cockeyed to blame overweightness on soda and exclude all the other contributing factors.
gee - where’s the Center for Science in the Public Interest when you need them???
Well, at the risk of being stepped on for expressing an unpopular opinion…
I just don’t think we’re all supposed to be the same. We aren’t supposed to all look alike, think alike, have the same hair color, have the same abilities, or the same skills.
To me, suggesting we should all weigh about the same, and that I should change my body to match society’s standard, it about the same as going to someone seven feet tall and explaining why he’d really be so much better off if he had this special surgery to remove about 8 inches off each of his legs…
–James
P.S. In re-reading this post, I realized that I come across like a have a large chip on my shoulder about issues of fat acceptance. And that’s ok, because I do. 
Bah. It’s basic algebra, kids.
amount of calories eaten - amount of calories burned = amount of calories stored as fat
If the number is positive, you get fatter. If the number is negative, you get less fat.
It’s not really that hard. If you have a slow metabolism, that means eat less or exercise more (probably get the most benefit from the latter as it tends to speed up metabolism).
Sam, I know that lots of people believe this…and it sounds reasonable…looks great on paper…and doesn’t work that way in real life.
The way the human body works is complex. It just doesn’t reduce to simple in-and-out linear equations.
There are very large people who eat very little; conversely, there are very thin people who have an enormous calory intake each day. These folks don’t fit the cold equations.
–James
I’m not a big fan of the current “standard” either.
As for the whole soda thing… THANK YOU, CAPTAIN OBVIOUS!!! I don’t know why this would be news to anybody with any sense at all.
And yes, I am still going to drink sodas. Even though it’s not healthy. Because I like it. 
Yeah, because I hope I wasn’t suggesting that!
Yeah, because I hope I wasn’t suggesting that!
Nah, I didn’t mean that to look like an argument to your post; rather, I was just using your post as a jumping-off point for me to climb up on a frequently-visited personal soapbox.
You’re alright, I don’t care what they say about ya!
–James