How much soda does the average American consume in a year?

I have looked around and I have found that about.com says that Americans consume 56 gallons a year. PBH says that Americans drink 25.75 gallons of Coca-Cola each year if we awesome that Pepsi sales the same amount it would be about 52 gallons which leads me to think that the 56 gallons is close enough this of course is the same as saying each American drinks 1.5 12 oz sodas a day or about 1 20 oz can each day. If you look at your coke can for information it says 150 cal/12 Oz. Which comes out to be 12.5 cal/oz. So if you do the math it comes out to 84800 cal a year if you change that into extra lbs a year it comes out to be about 24 lbs a year! Conclusion you could loose two lbs a month with out ever hitting the gym! Of course this awesome that you drink water only because if you drink juice you won't loose weight since it has the same calories intake as a soda. The funny thing is that the coast guard just upgraded the average calculation for the average American weight from 165 to 185. So all of this weight can be traced to Americans consumption of soda!






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