During the health scare over the obesity epidemic continues across the United States and many other parts of the world, soft drinks sales have been dropping over the past few years by a fairly important margin, as users prefer more healthy choices.

Over the past ten years, soft drinks sales have been on decline due to people's concerns over sugar consumption in the midst of the obesity nationwide crisis, as many Americans are taking to drink more bottled drinks as they become more aware of the risks of excessive sugary consumption in everyday life.

According to The Daily Meal, a new report on soft drinks sales has been recently released, carrying the numbers for the year 2014, in which it can be seen that sodas have gone through a major drop once again, continuing a growing trend that has been occurring over the past few years, as the American public opts for less calories in their diets.

CNBC reports that the new soft drinks sales numbers mark a full decade of decline in the soda industry, with the two main brands, PepsiCo and The Coca Cola Company, taking the hardest hits as numbers descend within the industry, as it seems just about every consumer in America is at least trying to cut down on their intake of these sugary high caloric drinks.

According to Business Insider, the new soft drinks sales report shows that Pepsi has now surpassed Diet Coke as the second soda brand in the United States, as Diet Coke fell 6.6 percent throughout 2014, positioning itself at a market share of 8.5 percent, a bit lower than Pepsi's 8.8 percent one.

The first spot is still indisputably Coca-Cola's, and the rest of the top 10 goes like this: Pepsi in the second place, Diet Coke in the third, Mt. Dew takes on fourth, then Dr Pepper as fifth - the rest is filled with, in order, Sprite, Diet Pepsi, Fanta, Diet Mt. Dew and Coke Zero.

The soft drinks sales drop has been reported widely in the country over the last few years.