63 Percent of Americans are Skipping out on Soda, New Gallup Poll Reveals

More Americans are making healthier choices.

According to a new Gallup poll, 63 percent of respondents reported that they are cutting soda out of their diet; that's up from 51 percent in the 2004 poll and 41 percent in 2002. Another 13 percent said they don't think about soda as part of their diet, which is also down from 24 percent in 2004.

Other findings in the poll support the idea that many Americans may be trying to eat healthier. Ninety-three percent of respondents said they tried to regularly include vegetables into their diet and 92 percent said they also tried to eat fruit more often. However, only 45 percent said they included organic foods in their diet.

These findings certainly bring the country into a healthier light. Unfortunately, the report shows that most Americans are not making an effort to exclude sugar from their diets, in general.

"Since 2002, soda and sugar have moved into the category of food a majority of Americans appear to consider bad for them. This year, more Americans than ever say they try to avoid drinking soda, while there has been little change in sentiment about avoiding sugar intake," the Gallup report stated, published July 28.

Close to 52 percent of Americans said they were avoiding sugar in 2014 compared with 51 percent in both 2006 and 2004, according to the Huffington Post. Similar findings were noted in 2002 at 43 percent.

Not much is being done to decrease salt consumption, either. Forty-six percent of people said they were tryig to avoid salt in 2014 compaerd to 49 percent in 2006 and 47 percent in 2004.

The findings are based on data from 1,013 phone interviews conducted between July 7 and 10 of this year.