soda
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Food icon Marion Nestle talks Trump, soda, and weed
The James Beard award-winning author talks sustainable nutrition in a post-Trump world.
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This 15-year-old helped convince PepsiCo to stop putting a flame-retardant chemical in Gatorade
The teen started a petition asking PepsiCo to stop using brominated vegetable oil. And, on Friday, PepsiCo announced that it would be dropping the stuff.
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Drinking a lot of diet soda is linked to depression
Here's another excuse to stay the hell away from diet soda.
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You will eat more cookies if you’re told they’re ‘medium’ instead of ‘large’
Although people make decisions based on size labels, they don't really know how much food or drink they're consuming.
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The biggest news story of our dystopian future
Ruben Bolling’s latest “Tom the Dancing Bug” strip envisions the newsreel of a climate-changed future. Here’s a teaser: The rest is after the jump (click to embiggen).
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Half of Americans drink at least one glass of soda every day
Gallup has discovered a great divide in American society: There are those of us who drink soda and those of us who do not, and the country’s split almost exactly down the middle. Soda drinkers make up 48 percent of the country’s population. These are the people who drink at least one glass of soda […]
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Pop goes the weasel: Will good deeds keep the soda industry super-sized?
Through cause marketing programs like Pepsi Refresh, the beverage industry is buying good will, and protection from policy changes like New York's proposed soda ban.
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Beverage industry to NYC: Ignore the mayor. Soda’s totally cool
Well, that didn’t take long. Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced yesterday that NYC would be banning sugary drinks if they came in containers bigger than 16 ounces. And today, the American Beverage Association is pushing back with an ad that says, basically, “Do not believe that science over there! Believe this science that says soda is […]
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Why Bloomberg’s ‘Big Gulp ban’ could be good for New York City
Recent science linking portion size and calorie intake suggests that banning extra large servings of soda might actually keep New Yorkers healthier.