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While it has become a consensus that consumption of soft drinks is directly linked with obesity due to their sugar content[18,19,61—64], our novel research delineates another aspect of consuming CBs. There has been no research on the effects of the added carbon dioxide in CBs [carbonated beverages] on the onset of obesity. Hence, this study clearly shows discernible effect of the carbon dioxide gas in CBs on increased food ingestion and heightened risk of weight gain, obesity and fatty liver disease by inducing ghrelin release and increased food consumption in rodents and humans. Thus, the increased risk of weight gain as well as development of fatty liver disease seems to be amplified via the intertwined role of the carbon dioxide gas and the sugar content of the CBs. There is, therefore, another dimension in obesity induced by CBs that needs to be taken into account in the future.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28228348 [nih.gov]

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