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High-leverage prevention programs can have three big benefits: generate revenues to pay for health care, promote wellness, and lower health care costs.

A tax of seven cents per soft drink can would raise $10 billion per year to help pay for an expansion of healthcare coverage and help lower obesity rates, reducing the strain that obesity-related conditions place on America's sick-care system. More than two-thirds of American adults are obese or overweight. While many factors contribute to weight gain, soft drinks are the only food or beverage shown to have a direct link to obesity, which in turn can lead to hypertension, strokes, heart attacks, diabetes, cancer, arthritis, and other health and psychosocial problems.

The revenues from a soft-drink tax could help fund health care generally and, in particular, prevention and wellness provisions in health reform legislation by funding programs to promote healthy diets and exercise.

Please contact your Senator today and urge her to support this preventative health measure that could help pay for health care reform, while improving the health of Americans.

Thank you!