In 1968, infectious diseases had all but been eliminated, and didn’t even make the list of “top ten killers” in the United States. Yet, in the past 20 years, the re-emergence of these diseases and the rise of strains of super germs have created a problem that we each need to be concerned about.

Sugar-rushes and caffeine-highs followed by a depressing energy crash are What happens to your body if you drink a Coke right now, but plenty of readers actually seem to be okay with that. Some of you think it’s alarmist to compare a caffeine and sugar rush to doing drugs, and some just don’t really care about the slump they’ll find themselves in after drinking 39 grams of sugar, but what makes us really worried about a soda-slurping habit is what happens over the long term.