Sweet way to go? Drip-feed soft drink the road to fat

By Vince Chadwick
Updated January 17 2013 - 10:30am, first published 3:00am
Craig Padayachee demonstrates the amount of sugar in a single can of soft drink.
Craig Padayachee demonstrates the amount of sugar in a single can of soft drink.

SIXTEEN teaspoons of sugar from one 600-millilitre bottle of soft drink consumed once a day for a year comes to 23 kilograms. That's the amount of sugar sitting in a mound in Cancer Council Victoria's offices as it begins campaigning on Thursday for a tax on soft drinks and restrictions on marketing to children.

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