Soda Is Bad For You & The Industry's Finally Starting To Suffer: Gothamist

Soda Is Bad For You & The Industry's Finally Starting To Suffer: Gothamist

The day's most popular stories from Gothamist every evening in your inbox from our newsletter. Istaverse Soda Is Bad For You & The Industry's Finally Starting To Suffer by Rebecca Fishbein in Food on Oct 3, 2015 4:00 pm (Carrie Dennis / Gothamist) It's no secret that soda is killing you one 20-ounce bottle at a time, whether your preferred beverage comes packed with sugar, aspartame, or (ugh) stevia . But even with all the health warnings, failed soda bans /taxes, and Parks & Recreation episodes , Big Soda's still been pocketing dollar after dollar, until now—a new report in the Times claims the soda industry seems to be starting to fizzle. "[S]oda companies are losing the war," the Times crowed today , noting that despite failed policies like Mayor Bloomberg's soda ban and soda taxes in Philadelphia and San Francisco, sales of full-calorie sodas have fallen by over 25 percent in the last two decades.

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