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Sodas and sugar-loaded drinks are an unfortunate staple in the American diet. Over the past 30 years, our consumption of sugary beverages has gone from having a "pop" as occasional treat, to making sugar-sweetened drinks part of our everyday lives. It's a dangerous habit with critical health consequences.

We all know drinking a bottle of soda isn't like having a bottle of natural spring water. But most people don't know that rock-solid science now shows sugary drinks are the culprits for diseases that run the gamut from preventable diabetes and obesity, to cardiovascular disease and tooth decay.

Here, with the help of researcher Dr. Kimber Stanhope of UC Davis, the Kick the Can team explains the answer to the question: what's so bad about soda?