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Pop is a big contributor here.
If your children are like most children in the U.S., soda pop consumption is one habit that should be stopped. Americans drank 15 billion gallons of pop last year, which is twice as much as we consumed back in the 1970s. The first concern here is obesity. One in four children today is overweight and, while weight problems are a complicated issue, poor food choices is a major contributor. According to a recent study from Harvard School of Public Health, children's weight problems were directly proportional to how many soft drinks they consumed.