COKES A DAY

After hearing actor Jude Law was drinking 10 12-ounce cans of Coke a day to gain weight for a movie role, 50-year-old George Prior of Los Angeles decided to drink that amount of soda for one month to raise awareness about how much sugar people drink every day, and how unhealthy it is.

“You’re probably thinking everyone knows it wouldn’t be healthy to drink 10 Cokes a day, and, besides, I only drink four Cokes a day,’” he wrote on his website, 10cokesaday. com. “That’s true, perhaps you’re only drinking four Cokes, but if you add in the two glasses of orange juice, the two sweetened coffee drinks from Starbucks, the 16-ounce Odwalla drink, the two ‘healthy’ brand iced teas and the $9 fruit smoothie you waited 10 minutes in line for, you’ve made my 10 Cokes look like child’s play.”

Before the 30-day soda challenge, Prior weighed 168 pounds with a body fat percentage of 9 percent. Three hundred sodas later, he had a final weight gain of 23 pounds with an increased body fat percentage of 16 percent.