It’s hard to overeat without noticing it. By contrast, soda and other sugar-sweetened beverages can sneak up on you, adding hundreds of calories to your diet each day without ever filling you up. In a new effort to highlight the health impact of sweetened drinks, the Health Department is confronting New Yorkers with a bold question: Are you pouring on the pounds?

Like Bronx adults, Bronx teens reported high intake of sugary drinks. When public high school students were asked whether they drank at least one soda a day over the course of a week, the proportion answering “yes” was 29% in the Bronx, followed by Staten Island (25%), Queens (23%), Brooklyn (22%) and Manhattan (21%). Teens who drink sugary beverages get an average of 360 calories from them each day – an amount they would have to walk 70 city blocks to burn.







It’s no secret that soft drinks have gotten bigger over the years. Soda used to come in 6.5-ounce bottles. Today, 12-ounce cans are considered small and 20-ounce bottles are typical. A single super-sized soda can pack as many calories as three to four regular cans of soda.

Cut down the fat of what you're eating, its your health you're affecting. Watching the video was discusting and disturbing. It literelly made me want a glass of milk and cut down the drinking of coke or soda. I think that the growing obesity in our nation is due to fast foods. They are everywhere, every corner and different type of fast foods. Yes, they are good, thats what makes us eat them and eat them time after time, but it isn't good for us and though you cant see the affect that it does in our bodies as soon as we eat them, but long term you will notice, and you will regret eating so much junk food. If the new tax goes through in America, and later in Canada people would still continue to buy large sums of pop or chips, its just like Mc Donalds, if the price went up, we would still purchase it because it taste good, but isn't good for us. The unhealthiest things are the ones that we eat the most.