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Fizz fizzles out

Cristiano Ronaldo’s recent Coca-Cola snub has reignited conversations about the health implications of consuming caffeinated, aerated beverages. A nutritionist explains

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Cristiano Ronaldo moves aside Coca-Cola bottles at a Euro 2020 press conference. Pic/Youtube

Cristiano Ronaldo moves aside Coca-Cola bottles at a Euro 2020 press conference. Pic/Youtube

Four seconds. That’s all it took for ace footballer Cristiano Ronaldo to cause Coca Cola to lose $4 billion by moving aside two bottles of the beverage ahead of Portugal’s Euro 2020 group-stage clash against Hungary. Instead, he recommended agua (Spanish: water) to the cameras. Even as India’s soft drink market grows rapidly, with a 2018 report pegging per capita consumption to rise to 84 bottles this year, nutritionists have been warning against indiscriminate consumption of aerated beverages for a while now.  

Fizz fizzles out

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