Love to Eat| Front labels of beverages 20 ounces or less now contain the total calories in the container. No more reading the tiny print on the back of the container and learning that there are four servings in the bottle. Americans now see front and center the calories they will consume by drinking sugared colas or fruit drinks.

Dr Jessica Bartfield, a medical weight-loss specialist at Gottlieb Memorial Hospital says that most Americans fail to do the math on total calorie counts. Couple that fact with our love of ‘sickeningly sweet’ beverages and you have a recipe for an obesity epidemic. Sound familiar?