One medium cup of Coca Cola has more grams of added sugar than the American Heart Association's recommendation for total daily intake. Jishai Evers at Dadaviz charted this startling fact:
(Jishai Evers / Dadaviz )
The added sugar content of Coca Cola is why many public health experts see the drink, along with other sugary beverages, as a serious threat to America's health. Robert Lustig, a medical expert at the University of California, San Francisco, has even called for regulating sugar like a drug to help reduce obesity in the US.
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