More and more and more soda please.

How come we are getting bigger and bigger? I am referring to our girth. Diabetes in teenagers is reaching epidemic proportions. Diabetes is on the rise in our culture. Do you think soda may have something to do with it? Take a look in the soda aisle of the supermarket to get a sense as to how much of this drink is consumed.

You have seen this before? I know you have.

Lunch time is the right time to super duper enormous size your meal. Hey why not? You only pay a little more money and you get so much more stuff. More potatoes and a mini vat of soda. Just what you needed. Some of those soda vats need two hands to lift.

Here is the con. Can you see it coming?

You just purchased a jumbo glass of soda with your meal. You paid the few extra cents to have the pleasure of carting this huge plastic container of liquid to your table. After sitting and eating part of your lunch you get up to refill your pail of soda. But wait. Couldn't you have bought the smallest glass of soda and refill it anyway for free. You would have paid less money. So maybe you would have made three trips to the fountain instead of two because you got a smaller glass instead of the pail of soda.

So here is the question. Do you think the advertisers know something? Like we do not want to get up during our meal? Or maybe, that we can get a huge amount of extra liquid at no cost? What’s the difference if all the extra soda is for free anyway? Maybe the advertisers know that we will not want to get up during our meals.

Any way you drink it, the end result is that more and more people are diabetic in this country and around the world.

More soda equals potentially more diabetes and other problems. These fast food restaurants are giving the beverage away to lure you and me into their stores. It is such a bargain and who doesn't like a sale?

The irony of it all is that many teenagers are overweight and either pre diabetic or diabetic. And the number of those afflicted with this illness is on the rise. What do we really expect when we pump them up with sugar water? This diabetes disease is getting out of control.

Hopefully this article made some sense and your view about soda and super sizing meals hits home for you. I am not saying that soda is the only reason we are gaining weight and becoming diabetic. I am saying that the huge sodas are part of the problem.