Drinks would be limited to 16 ounces. The ban would apply only to drinks that contain more than 25 calories per 8 ounces. Here are calorie and sugar counts in a sampling of popular drinks: ...

Soft drinks also displaced milk in children’s diets, diminishing their intake of nutrients such as calcium, iron, folic acid, and zinc. The same holds true for adults, Bermudez points out.

Experts do agree that low- or no-calorie soft drinks are better than sugary regular sodas. "It is fine to enjoy a diet soda as long as you don’t use them as a license to add more calories from ...

For a start, he says, “ Veri Soda is by definition a low calorie product. It’s got 70% less sugar than other sodas and is slightly less sweet than many low or zero calorie drinks but it ...

March 9, 2007 / 3:00 PM EST / WebMD or fewer fries -- than a person who washes the burger down with water. Some studies suggested that the fattening effects of soft drinks go beyond mere calorie ...

That single drink is more than 10% of the total calories an adult woman needs to maintain a healthy weight, according to USDA diet guidelines. Meanwhile, about 1 in 4 Americans gets at least 200 ...

October 13, 2006 The diet soda market has traditionally been a place where the soft drinks didn’t add as many calories as non-diet brethren, but Coca Cola is now readying a product for the U.S ...