...in the USA, they consume the equivalent of three quarters of a billion cans of soft drink EVERY DAY! That’s 4 litres each week, every person - and that’s the average number (some people drink nil, so others are double that) - and we are following along.

If you drink a can of Coke a day, you’ll put on 7 kg in a year that you have to burn off just to stay at the same weight over that time - and if you buy ‘diet drinks’ - they are full of chemicals that might kill you faster than the diabetes you are likely to get from the regular stuff.