Just for the record, I don’t think it’s a sin to drink a soft drink once in a while. Indulgences are allowed. But drinking one a day is a different story. The cumulative effect of what is now known as the modern American diet, where virtually everything is highly processed, laden with sugar, and grown from chemicalized deficient soil, is a seriously sick population. America now leads the world in the five leading chronic diseases. That’s not a good place to be number one.

