Sugary drinks in our daily lives

Sugary drinks have been one of the principal products more demanded in the market. In our society, everybody drinks sugary drinks from the youngest to the oldest. Most of the times sugary drinks catch people's attention because of their sweetness and flavor, and therefore people are more motivated to consume it. In order to limit the amount of sugary drinks consumption, reduce health problems, provide a healthy life, and help the environment to be cleaner, the government has to impose higher taxes on sugary drinks.

         Sugary drinks are a sweetened liquid made of different types of ingredients. Sugary drinks are one of the principal causes of many diseases such as obesity and diabetes. Sugary drinks have become the high providers of calories on people’s diet. (Harvard T.H. CHAN). (2) Sugary drinks affect our environment in that not all the bottles trash gets recycled which creates an environment contamination. Sugary drinks make people eat less and gain more weight, while people who don’t drink sugary drinks tends to be healthier and not overweight (Harvard T.H. CHAN). (3) According to “Center for Science in the Public Interest”, sugary drinks have become one of the principal products highest in calories in the whole nationwide. In addition, The Center for Science in the Public Interest states that sugary drinks are the causes of obesity, heart disease, tooth decay, and high blood pressure. (2) According to “Centers for Disease Control and Prevention” sugary drinks such as “soda, and fruit drinks” are not healthy because they contain a small amount of nutrition. (170)

          Why not just ban sugary drinks if they are so dangerous on people in society? According to the passage “Did Prohibition Really Work? Alcohol Prohibition as a Public Health Innovation” by Jacks Brocker, Jr, PhD the prohibition of alcohol drinks in The United States didn’t work because people noticed that the government was against of their rights and liberty, and against of the Eighteenth Amendment of the constitution. Because of that, people continue drinking and protesting in the street anyway. As a result, alcohol drinks consumptions could not be banned. (14)

Works Cited

"Did Prohibition Really Work? Alcohol Prohibition As a Public Health Innovation." PubMed Central (PMC), www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1470475/.

Park, Sohyun, et al. "Prevalence of Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Intake Among Adults — 23 States and the District of Columbia, 2013 | MMWR." Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 25 Aug. 2017, www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/65/wr/mm6507a1.htm.

"Sugary Drinks." The Nutrition Source, 4 Sept. 2013, www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/healthy-%20%20drinks/sugary-drinks/.