Paper cups, crumpled napkins, and empty bottles of soda littered the yard.
I told him, "No, sir, but a soda would be great.
If you consider that the added sugar in a single can of soda might be more than most people would have consumed in an entire year, just a few hundred years ago, you get a sense of how dramatically our environment has changed.
Told me I could get the soda myself, all I had to do was look in the trunk of the car.
With his usual skepticism and his love of data, Smil shows how our ability to make things with less material—say, soda cans that need less aluminum—makes them cheaper, which actually encourages more production.
Yet, it seemed to me, something very important was missing, else there would not have been the constant effort to escape the realities of life through Scotch and soda.
Some foods, like pasta, bread, cereal and soda, release their glucose quickly, leading to a burst of energy followed by a slump.
A soda tax is a start, proper labeling would be helpful, and — quite possibly most important, because it's going to take us a generation or two to get out of this mess — restrictions on marketing sweet "food" to children.
No sooner had I learned how to pronounce bicarbonate of soda and memorized its location on the shelf, than Miss Bee rearranged the shelves and made me hunt for it all over again.
"We're talking about one large cafe latte a week or you can skip drinking soda daily at lunch," Edelman says.
But certainly I admired how so many of them stayed trim while enjoying coq au vin, baguettes, andouillettes, eclairs and fondue while Americans struggled with their weight while gorging on diet soda and Lean Cuisines.
What you can do: Soothe your feet with this remedy of Red Door Spa: Dunk feet up to the ankles in hot water in a plastic bin or the tub, adding a handful of Epsom salts and 2 spoonfuls of baking soda.
Reuben found a rusty soda tin and dropped his coins inside.
Do you remember to include that can of soda, smoothie, cup of latte, or cocktail?
Limit yourself to one glass daily of soda or alcohol.
He borrowed money and installed a soda fountain and pretty soon he had a very nice little business.
