Soda and other sugar-sweetened drinks have been on my mind lately. Not because I drink them myself, but because just cutting out the non-nutritive, sugar-filled, potentially harmful beverages is a highly effective way — if not the most easy way — to lose weight and improve your health.

That’s right. Just making that one simple diet change — removing chemically created soda and other sugar-sweetened drinks such as sports drinks and juice drinks — could enable you to peel off the pounds.

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