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Coca Cola and Pepsi Battle Over San Francisco University ‘Pouring Rights’

The Soda Giants are at war again, with Pepsi Co. and Coca Cola vying for the young and thirsty at San Francisco State University. The school has promised to drop a controversial ‘pouring rights’ contract for sugary drinks.
Two bids from the soft drink giants were being reviewed by a committee of students, faculty, and staff to decide whether Pepsi or Coca Cola (or neither) would be able to sell their drinks at the University.

Don’t Drink This if You Want to Avoid Diabetes

This won’t come as a surprise to most readers, but…sugar is bad for you. But if you think drinking diet soda will keep you from gaining weight and becoming diabetic, think again.
A new study published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) shows that people don’t have to be overweight to develop Type 2 diabetes. Just chugging a single sugary drink ups the risk of the disease in even lean individuals. [1]

Is Drinking Diet Soda Really Bad for Your Health?

Is diet soda bad for you? Diet soda has no sugar, calories, fat, or carbohydrates, and it feels all cold and bubbly going down your throat. What’s not to like on the surface? Unfortunately, the advertising on the can doesn’t tell the whole story, and those bubbles come at a very high price. That price can include Type 2 diabetes, seizures, loss of kidney function, various cancers, and most ironically of all, obesity.

Pepsi Removes Artificial Sweetener Aspartame From Diet Pepsi

Following the wave of corporations responding to consumer activism like never before, Pepsi has announced that it will be removing the artificial sweetener aspartame from its Diet Pepsi product.
Aspartame, of course, is the artificial sweetener that has been linked to a number of conditions in a wide variety of studies — some of which mega food scientists argue are ‘unscientific.’