--- title: Nearly Two-Thirds Americans Avoid Sodas, Says Gallup description: According to a new Gallup poll, almost two-thirds of Americans actively avoid soda in their diet. canonical: https://time.com/3053000/63-of-americans-actively-avoid-soda/ author: Laura Stampler article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-07-29T18:43:36.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T09:24:09.333Z article:section: Health og:title: Nearly Two-Thirds Americans Avoid Sodas, Says Gallup og:description: According to a new Gallup poll, almost two-thirds of Americans actively avoid soda in their diet. og:url: https://time.com/3053000/63-of-americans-actively-avoid-soda/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt782c7fcdbb49fecc/69869da8d0b6f232a63057dc/185261089.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4724 og:image:height: 2657 og:image:alt: soda can og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Nearly Two-Thirds Americans Avoid Sodas, Says Gallup twitter:description: According to a new Gallup poll, almost two-thirds of Americans actively avoid soda in their diet. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt782c7fcdbb49fecc/69869da8d0b6f232a63057dc/185261089.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 63% of Americans Actively Avoid Soda > Sponsored content. 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Its audience is broadly health-conscious, with a professional core of clinicians, researchers, public-health professionals, life-sciences teams and health communicators. by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Jul 29, 2014 6:43 PM UTC  Crushed can Crushed can Getty Images by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Jul 29, 2014 6:43 PM UTC The soda craze is going flat–at least, according to a [new Gallup poll](http://www.gallup.com/poll/174137/americans-likely-avoid-drinking-soda.aspx), which found that almost two-thirds of Americans actively avoid soda in their diet. While 41% percent of those polled in 2002 said that they try to steer clear of soda, that number has now jumped to 63%. Gallup’s poll shows that generally Americans are making more effort to have healthier diets. More than nine out of ten Americans try to include fruits and vegetables in their diets, and 52% said that they are trying to avoid sugars. Don’t start pouring one out for the dying soda business just yet, though. A [2012 Gallup poll](http://www.gallup.com/poll/156116/nearly-half-americans-drink-soda-daily.aspx) also found that 48% of Americans drink at least one glass of soda a day. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3053000/63-of-americans-actively-avoid-soda/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3053000/63-of-americans-actively-avoid-soda/"},"headline":"63% of Americans Actively Avoid Soda","datePublished":"2014-07-29T18:43:36.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T09:24:09.333Z","description":"According to a new Gallup poll, almost two-thirds of Americans actively avoid soda in their diet.","url":"https://time.com/3053000/63-of-americans-actively-avoid-soda/","keywords":["fitness","diet","Food","Soda","health","beverages","Body"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt782c7fcdbb49fecc/69869da8d0b6f232a63057dc/185261089.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Laura Stampler","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt782c7fcdbb49fecc/69869da8d0b6f232a63057dc/185261089.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"soda can","caption":"185261089","creditText":"Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/fitness/","name":"fitness"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3053000/63-of-americans-actively-avoid-soda/","name":"63% of Americans Actively Avoid Soda"}}]}] ```