Nutritionists see sodas as the 'cigarettes' of obesity

The AP reports:

Low-fat, low-cal, low-carb. Atkins, South Beach, The Zone. Food fads may be distracting attention from something more insidiously piling on pounds: beverages. One of every five calories in the American diet is liquid. The nation's single biggest "food" is soda, and nutrition experts have long demonized it.

Now they are escalating the fight.
In reports to be published in science journals this week, two groups of researchers hope to add evidence to the theory that soda and other sugar-sweetened drinks don't just go hand-in-hand with obesity but actually cause it. Not that these drinks are the only cause — genetics, exercise and other factors are involved — but that they are one cause, perhaps the leading cause.

We know that those who want higher taxes need to demonize an industry.First tobacco,then guns,now soft drinks.We think the fight will really get interesting when the health busybodies try and take on the dairy industry who's quite powerful.