Obesity. Diabetes. By now, we've all heard of the health risks posed by drinking too much soda. But over in Appalachia, the region that stretches roughly from southern New York state to Alabama, the ...

Mountain Dew, with its high caffeine and sugar content, is said to be used as a type of anti-depressant in the impoverished mountain communities--even put in infants' baby bottles. Children as young ...