The real health hazard is the sugar water industry.
Hello adult onset diabetes.
Good ole Paracelsus had the answer centuries ago: the dose makes the poison.
If people want to make staples out of Coca-Cola and the like, while eating a majority of their diet composed of modern rich foods, that is their fault for not considering the alternatives. I don’t hear even the soda companies telling people to drink it all the time.
I’d far rather have grown, adult people have the freedom even to eat and drink themselves to death, however, than the “help” of insufferable nannies that, as the bible says, “forbid to eat certain foods.” In the long run, that is worse. We do not live for bread alone.