Mississippi Business Journal » Big Gulp http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Fri, 24 May 2013 05:01:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Put down that margarita, report says booze contains as many empty calories as Big Gulp http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/11/15/put-down-that-margarita-report-says-booze-contains-as-many-empty-calories-as-big-gulp/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=put-down-that-margarita-report-says-booze-contains-as-many-empty-calories-as-big-gulp http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/11/15/put-down-that-margarita-report-says-booze-contains-as-many-empty-calories-as-big-gulp/#comments Thu, 15 Nov 2012 14:29:58 +0000 Ross Reily http://msbusiness.com/?p=65372 NEW YORK — Americans get too many calories from soda. But what about alcohol? It turns out adults get almost as many empty calories from booze as from soft drinks, a government study found. Soda and other sweetened drinks — the focus of obesity-fighting public health campaigns — are the source of about 6 percent [...]

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