A mother pulls a bottle of soda off the shelf at the grocery store. It's nearly in the shopping cart when something catches her eye. On the label is a detailed warning about just how bad the main ingredient, sugar, is for the body. She returns the soda to its place and walks away.

Or so public health officials are starting to dream.

As the U.S. grapples with epidemic levels of diabetes and obesity, legislators, public health officials and advocates are increasingly experimenting with ways to discourage people from buying foods and drinks loaded with added sugar, which has been linked with these diseases and a host of other health problems. One tactic, adding warning labels about the harmful health effects of sugar, could help deter parents from buying such drinks, a study published Thursday suggests. Yet as the battle against Big Soda heats up, experts say it will take far more than warning labels to change what people put in their grocery carts and finally put the brakes on rising rates of lifestyle-related illnesses.

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