Twenty years ago, teenage boys in the United States drank twice as muc…

Eric Schlosser
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Twenty years ago, teenage boys in the United States drank twice as much milk as soda; now they drink twice as much soda as milk. ✨ Eric Schlosser (2001). Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Twenty years ago, teenage boys in the United States drank twice as much milk as soda; now they drink twice as much soda as milk. ✨ Eric Schlosser (2001). Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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