Yoo-hoo! Over here! It’s me, Janey Junkfood. Boy, did I have another crazy day!
I wanted to sneak in a treat before juggling practice, so I grabbed a soda. But Coach busted me drinking it, and he seemed concerned. Why? I said, “C’mon Coach, I drink tons of the stuff, and everybody drinks it!! All the COOLEST athletes, movie stars and ROCK STARS!!”
It can’t be bad for you if all those happy, cool, successful people drink it. And, that means if I drink soda, I will be just like them. Duh!!
He told me that soda companies pay those stars and athletes millions of dollars to get kids to drink soda!! Huh? I feel so tricked. I mean, why would they have to pay somebody so much money to pretend that they drink soda? I don’t get it. He also said to watch athletes during a game, and I won’t see them drinking that stuff. Whoa. Not cool.
Why wouldn’t they drink it? Well, it turns out that soda has some surprising stuff in it. Not only does it have, like, a bazillion teaspoons of sugar, but coloring, flavorings and phosphoric acid! I’m no expert, but acid sounds icky! This acid plus sugar will rot my teeth and cause cavities. My teeth need to last me a whole lifetime – NO thanks!!.
Coach did a trick where he measured out how many teaspoons of sugar are in a can of soda. Guess how many…. two?……five?…. Nope – TEN!!! Can you believe it?! That’s so gross!! He also told me that the average kid drinks 600 cans of soda a year! That’s like $600 that kids just like me give the soda companies. Can you imagine all the different things I could buy with $600?! That’s so much money!! I could go on a shopping spree instead!
That’s so sneaky of the soda companies. Well, NO more soda for me. I would rather ditch the sugar and keep the money for something fun!!
I gotta go, I hear Coach calling me! See ya’ soon!
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