BY JESSICA FIRGER
H20, NO! While studying how much the price of sodas is dropping globally, researchers found that sugarsweetened beverages are cheaper than bottled water.
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AS MORE people worldwide adopt a Western diet, soda is becoming a staple. That’s great news if you’re sitting on a big block of Mountain Dew stock, but scientists say guzzling sugarsweetened beverages is a sureire way to put on weight, thereby increasing risk for such chronic and fatal medical conditions as diabetes and some cancers. Despite that, sodas are spreading.