Something to ponder, Are you a soda drinker? If so, read on!

Are you a soda drinker? If so, read on! There's a lot of confusion and controversy over a recent medical study, and picked up by newspapers and TV alike, linking soda - diet and regular - with an increase in risk factors for heart disease. To me, this is a prime example of reading the headlines, and not checking out the fine print.

Obesity-related illness is on the rise. One big way to save calories, and help avoid overweight to begin with, is to substitute that 150 calorie 12 ounce can for a sugar-free diet soda with practically no calories. Just making that substitution once a day will produce a 10 pound weight loss in a year.

This article compared soda drinking - and did not differentiate between diet soda and regular soda, and lumped them together. When making their comparisons for risk factors, they found that "soda drinking" was associated with more of these risk factors