Tamara Banks -- whose 4-year-old daughter died from diabetes-related complications due to a diet mostly consisting of Mountain Dew -- has been sentenced to prison.

Though the exact date is unclear, Mountain Dew was invented sometime between 1940 and 1948, which was the year the trademark was filed with the U.S. Patent Office. In the ‘60s, when Pepsi-Cola ...

Banks and Hoeb fed the girl mostly Mountain Dew through a baby bottle, resulting in her teeth rotting and she had almost none left when she died, he has said.

She was taken off life support on Jan. 24 and died the next day. Prosecutors also claimed that Banks and Hoeb bottle-fed their daughter with baby formula mixed with Mountain Dew, WCPO reported.

She was taken off life support on Jan. 24 and died the next day. Prosecutors also claimed that Banks and Hoeb bottle-fed their daughter with baby formula mixed with Mountain Dew, WCPO reported.