Montana boy completes no-pop challenge, wins $500

, LIVINGSTON, Montreal, Jan. 2 (UPI) - The last time Jonathan Sarisky drank a soda was a year ago. But 12 months of abstinence was not in vain. The 11-year-old boy from Montana was after the conclusion of the so-called no-pop challenge issued by her parents rewarded $ 500.

Over last Christmas Sarisky parents - mother Renee Shifley, stepfather and father Rick Shifley Jason Sarisky - offered him and his brother a choice. You could win $ 100 now also take or accept a challenge to give up soft drinks for 365 days and raised $ 500 in one year.

Jonathan's brother Andrew opted for a quick profit, but Jonathan, who now goes by Jon, took up the challenge. For the last 12 months, he used no other drinks, but milk and water - no soda, juice or sports drinks.

"I did not brush my teeth until I have no more taste," said the Sarisky companies by Livingston. On the last soda, which he drank there almost a year

Sarisky mother says her son has grown a lot during the challenge; she remembers waiters in restaurants admire Jonathan restraint.

Jon says that even now the challenge is more, it will not fall back into old habits.

"I could just have a pop, but I will not do too much," he said. "OK [This is] a waste of time to time."

According to the most recent research is Sarisky health benefits that may accrue approximately $ 500 - health benefits.

"Added sugars probably more important than dietary sodium for high blood pressure and fructose especially clear cardiovascular [heart and blood vessels] may increase the risk," James Dinicolantonio, a researcher in the cardiology department of the Institute of Mid America Heart St. Luke, in Kansas City, WebMD said,

More and more doctors and health authorities accuse increasing amounts of sugar for a number of medical problems, high blood pressure and heart disease to obesity and diabetes.