Soft drinks and other sugar-sweetened beverages are the main source of added sugars in the American diet, according to the statement.
The numbers, however, suggest that poor Mancunians and Liverpudlians eat just as few green vegetables as poor Glaswegians (Glasgow also smokes and binge-drinks less than the other two cities).
The growing number of people attending the live events are exposed to all of the major sponsors, who have tents and booths set up offering free food, drinks, t-shirts and other giveaways.
For various reasons, it doesn't cover alcoholic drinks or many lattes and other milk-based concoctions.
European drinks makers, along with other consumer-goods companies, have pushed deeper into developing markets such as China and Russia in recent years, hoping to offset slowing sales of premium spirits in austerity-hit Europe.
Research shows that other drinks thought to be better --fruit juices, teas and energy drinks-- can also have harmful effects on teeth, turning the pearly whites to shrinking, spotted yellows marred with pockmarks.
With this deal, DPS will now have the rights to distribute beverages such as Mott?s, Yoo-hoo, Clamato and some other drinks in Australia as well as Snapple in Australia, China, Japan, South Korea and Malaysia.
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It bars restaurants and many other eateries from selling high-sugar drinks in cups or containers bigger than 16 ounces.
The latest in a line of healthy-eating initiatives during Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration, the beverage rule bars restaurants and many other eateries from selling high-sugar drinks in cups or containers bigger than 16 ounces.
"Even so, it is not definitive evidence that sugar-sweetened soft drinks increase the risk of Type 2 diabetes, other than through their effect on body weight, " he added.
Sarah Schenker, a dietician for the British Nutrition Foundation, said there was nothing wrong with people drinking three or four cups of coffee a day - provided that they also drank water or other decaffeinated drinks to compensate.
Hours after a judge struck down the 16-ounce size limit for sodas and some other sweet drinks as arbitrary and outside city health regulators' purview, Bloomberg defended it as a groundbreaking anti-obesity effort and all but challenged businesses to comply out of concern for their customers.
The ingredient is also used in other drinks, including some flavors of Powerade made by rival Coca-Cola Co.
And they said it would take a bite out of business for the establishments that had to comply, while other places would still be free to sell sugary drinks in 2-liter bottles and supersized cups.
And they said it would take a bite out of business for the establishments that had to comply, while other places would still be free to sell sugary drinks in 2-liter bottles and supersize cups.
Last year, the Obama administration rejected the mayor's request to bar city food-stamp recipients from using their benefits to buy soda and other sugary drinks.
In the United States, sugary drinks were linked to the deaths of 25, 000 people from diabetes and other obesity-related diseases.
The company has been able to raise prices and has expanded into higher-margin "specialty" cans--those that hold other than the standard 12 ounces, used for energy drinks and the like.
Such a tax discriminates against the manufacturers, bottlers, retailers, and consumers of sugar-sweetened beverages, while leaving the pocketbooks of those who produce and consume other high calorie drinks and foods untouched.
The ban against the drink was a politically-motivated appeal at emotion, sure, but standing up for high-alcohol content, hyper-caffeinated swill that puts teens and college kids in hospitals at much higher rates than other drinks is not a proud line in the sand for a chef to draw.
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