Ingredients in soda

Carbonated water
High fructose corn syrup, which is plain sugar!
Colors
Citric acidartificial flavors
Caffeine, and
Brominated vegetable oil…

Here are the worst…
Caffeine
Brominated vegetable oil
And High Fructose Corn Syrup

Caffeine make you go hyper and can keep you from concentrating on work, or other things.
High Fructose Corn Syrup is pretty much sugar, and too much sugar isn’t good for you. Because of this, you could gain up to 2 pounds a week from drinking soda
And last, but surely worst, Brominated Vegetable Oil. This is poison. Yes, you are drinking poison when you drink soda. Brominated Vegetable Oil keeps everything mixed together, so it doesn’t separate.

These ingredients are just some of the main ones, there actually are more!!

Monica's article

How does soda affect your body?

Soda contains a lot of caffeine, which is one of the things in soda that affects your body the most. If you drink a lot of soda it will keep you awake for a long time, and you can also get very hyper. Sometimes you will have trouble concentrating in school. If you are used to drinking soda everyday and you suddenly stop, you can get stomachaches and headaches and sometimes you get very grumpy.


You can also get:
• Shaky
• Jumpy
• Nervous
• Troubles sleeping
From too much caffeine

Average caffeine in soda
Drink Grams in drink Caffeine
Mountain dew 340g 55 mg
Coca Cola 340g 34mg
Diet coke 340g 45mg
Pepsi 340g 38mg
7-up 340g 0mg
Monster energy drinks 453g 160mg

Sources: US food and drug administration and national soft drink association

Sugary drinks can make you gain a lot of calories if you drink a lot..

Usually sodas with 240ml, have 27g sugar and 100 calories

SuperSodaMan

Teeth cartoon

Our Action Component

For our action component we decided to take part in not drinking soda for the rest of the year...Our perspectives have changed. The "not drinking soda" experiment only lasted about 4 or 5 weeks We thought it was a bit pointless because none of us drank soda as often as we thought anyway.

Instead of that we took part in taking the soda out of the charity club. We went to talk to Mr.Welby about it. He took us to the people who are in charge of the charity club, but they were absent.

We still wanted to do a bigger action. So we thught of making a comercial to put on the IB TV. The comercial shows how bad soda is for your teeth. Monica and Ellie dressed up as scientists and explained the effects on your teeth. Mckenzie and Amanda were news reporters and introduced us.

In case people dont see the comercial, we made posters to put up in the atrium and around the school.