Negative Effects Of Soda Consumption

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Soda consumption in the United States is negatively affecting its population. Soda consumption in the United States is important because the obesity rates in youth and adults are drastically increasing. Americans are very uneducated and misguided when it comes to products that they consume. They are often attracted to the unhealthier foods because they are cheaper compared to the healthier foods, which tend to be more on the expensive side. When a person watches a soda commercial, he or she does not think of the psychological effect it has on them. Soda companies use a variety of appeals to get the audience to look past the negatives of the brand/item and look at the positives. The soda companies know how to strategically market their brand in order to get people to purchase their product. Americans should decrease their soda consumption in order to live a healthier life. I will justify how soda …show more content…

Albuminuria is predominant in Caucasians but yet Caucasians are still the ones who consume more soda than any other race. Also an enormous factor to why people have elevated albuminuria levels is because of how cheap soda is. In the article, it discusses how the demographics of the people who had the elevated levels and how most of them were obese, under the poverty line (poor), hypertensive, and were physically inactive people. Another key concept of this evaluation discussed previously showed that even young kids were susceptible to drinking sugary sodas but albuminuria was not as prevalent in the young kids as it would have been in the older adults that were around 65+ in age. Even though soda was linked with high levels of albuminuria, diet soda wasn’t linked to the rise in levels of

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