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More than 400,000 Americans die from obesity yearly. Eating too many calories and not burning the calories can lead to a serious unhealthy lifestyle.

How can you tell if you’re obese or overweight? By measuring weight and height, BMI (Body Mass Index) is calculated and that indicates the amount of body fat you have. A BMI between 25 and 29.9 is considered overweight and a BMI of 30 and higher is consider obese. There are many BMI calculator tools online that can help you determine if you’re overweight!

Anyone who has ever dieted before knows that in order to start shedding the pounds, you have to pass up the sweets. Studies abound with links between the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) and increases in body mass index (BMI) in adults, teenagers, and even preteens. Until recently, however, the evidence on younger children was scant.