Soda junkies: It's high time you find some healthy drink alternatives to soda. 

You don't need to be a nutrition expert to realize that those bubbly beverages shouldn't be your go-to drink of choice. If you needed further confirmation, a 2012 study from Yale University found most respondents want to decrease the amount of sugary beverages they drink. Most also agreed that sugary drinks like soda are bad for overall health and contribute to obesity and other health problems. 

So why have so many of us become slaves to a soda? 

Part Habit, Part Calorie Blindness 

Truth be told, cracking a cola is partly out of habit and partly because people don't realize that those two liters are packing on the pounds. "Many people either forget or don't realize how many extra calories they consume in what they drink, yet beverages are a major contributor to the alarming increase in obesity," Barry Popkin, director of the University of North Carolina Interdisciplinary Obesity Program, tells WebMD.