Adding one can of soda to your diet, and changing nothing else, will see you gain 10lbs in a year, or 50 in five. Sugar alone explains a substantial portion of

Adding one can of soda to your diet, and changing nothing else, will see you gain 10lbs in a year, or 50 in five. Sugar alone explains a substantial portion of the obesity epidemic. A sugar tax, were there political will for it, would go a long way and be far and away the simplest approach. Our political system is just so dysfunctional right now, it shard to imagine it happening anytime soon at scale.