Gunning for Soda

From an AP article titled "Soda Targeted in Fight Against Obesity" by Marilynn Marchione on Yahoo News:

One of every five calories in the American diet is liquid. The nation's single biggest "food" is soda, and nutrition experts have long demonized it. Now they are escalating the fight. In reports to be published in science journals this week, two groups of researchers hope to add evidence to the theory that soda and other sugar-sweetened drinks don't just go hand-in-hand with obesity, but actually cause it. Not that these drinks are the only cause - genetics, exercise and other factors are involved - but that they are one cause, perhaps the leading cause.

The article goes on to describe how some folks are promoting a "fat tax" on soda and fast food and describes the debate regarding the "food police" and their "indictment of soda and its sugar-sweetened co-conspirators."