Arguments Against Eating Soda

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Putting Warning Labels on sugary drinks Would save Lives
Dosen't it feel like your in heaven when you drink a nice cold soda can? Well that nice soda can is slowly killing your insides you just don't know it or feel it. Drinking soda can give you obesity risk for heart disease,diabetes, and so many other health problems.
Soda is probably one of your favorite drinks right? Well its also very unhealthy and dangerous it pretty much shortens your life you could have lived for 98 years now your living for 94 just because of a drink? But what happens to you is its leading you closer and closer to death.
I created this scene because it may save lives it will make people live longer and improve risk of them getting heart disease or diabetes. My three reasons for
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Its the same thing as choclate built different choclate slowly poisons cats and dogs and soda slowly poisons us but nobody cares they all still drink it.
Someone would be opposed to my argument because its soda everybody likes soda but they don't know the truth about it but the thing they know is that its very good and refreshing. That's why everybody freaks out when someone says they don't like soda because they only know of it as being good even though you tell them what it can do they get scared for like a day but then drink a whole gallon the next day.
Did you ever think of soda as poison? Well now you will because research says it can give you obesity ,risks of diabetes heart disease and health problems. I would say to read the labels to see how bad it is then. I would tell them what it can give you and if you drink way to much theirs a possibility your will die because of soda.

" Drinking to much soda can lead to obesity"drink portion sizes have risen dramatically over the past 40 years, and children and adults are drinking more soft drinks than ever. Sugary drinks and soda fact

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