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Perhaps the "sugar" in the soda is actually the much-dreaded high fructose corn syrup? I'd suspect as much, since this study was done recently, and most sodas don't use "sugar", per se, any more.

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I think juice has just as much HFCS. Even light Hawaiian Punch shows it as the second highest ingredient, right after water (see http://www.hawaiianpunch.com/Text_only/nutlight_ing.html ). The putatively healthy Ocean Spray Cranberry Juice Cocktail is "16.69 % High fructose corn syrup, 42% fructose" (http://www.oceansprayitg.com/recipes/ITGBeverages/CranberryJ... ).

So both juice and soda have a good deal of HFCS.

That's easy to prove, HFCS is far less prevalent in Canadian sodas and I barely even heard of it in soda when I was living in the UK and Europe.

You simply need to correlate the results to other figures to see if HFCS is the major variable sticking out.

I'm pretty sure much of the pop sold in Canada contains HFCS. They call it glucose/fructose there. In the UK it's referred to as: "glucose-fructose syrup". This sometimes leads to confusion.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-fructose_corn_syrup

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