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NewsWorld NewsBusinessSportsEntertainmentTech / ScienceHealthWeatherTravelBlogs Etc.Local NewsNewsweekMultimediaMost PopularNBC NEWSMSNBC TVToday ShowNightly NewsMeet the PressDateline NBC  MSNBC Home » Health » Diet & FitnessScientists target soda as main cause of obesityNutrition experts want 'fat tax'  on sugar-sweetened drinksSara D.

Davis / APBarry Popkin, director of the University of North Carolina's Interdisciplinary Obesity Program and a professor of nutrition, believes consumption of sweetened sodas lead to obesity.Low-fat, low-cal, low-carb.

Atkins, South Beach, The Zone.

Food fads may be distracting attention from something more insidiously piling on pounds: beverages.One of every five calories in the American diet is liquid.

The nation's single biggest "food" is soda, and nutrition experts have long demonized it.Now they are escalating the fight.In reports to be published in science journals this week, two groups of researchers hope to add evidence to the theory that soda and other sugar-sweetened drinks don't just go hand-in-hand with obesity, but actually cause it.

Not that these drinks are the only cause - genetics, exercise and other factors are involved - but that they are one cause, pe...

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Atkins, South Beach, The Zone.

Food fads may be distracting attention from something more insidiously piling on kilograms: beverages.

One of every five calories in the American diet is liquid.

The nation's single biggest "food" is soda, and nutrition experts have long demonized it.

Now they are escalating the fight.

In reports to be published in science journals this week, two groups of researchers hope to add evidence to the theory that soda and other sugar-sweetened drinks don't just go hand-in-hand with obesity, but actually cause it.

Not that these drinks are the only cause genetics, exer...

...Scientists want 'fat tax' on soda - Diet & Fitness - MSNBC.comSkip navigationHealthHealth LibraryDiet & FitnessSexual HealthBird FluWomen's HealthMen's HealthChildren's HealthCancerInfectious DiseasesHeart HealthAgingStem Cell ResearchMore Health NewsPet HealthNews VideoU.S.

NewsWorld NewsBusinessSportsEntertainmentTech / ScienceHealthWeatherTravelBlogs Etc.Local NewsNewsweekMultimediaMost PopularNBC NEWSMSNBC TVToday ShowNightly NewsMeet the PressDateline NBC  MSNBC Home » Health » Diet & FitnessScientists target soda as main cause of obesityNutrition experts want 'fat tax'  on sugar-sweetened drinksSara D.

Davis / APBarry Popkin, director of the University of North Carolina's Interdisciplinary Obesity Program and a professor of nutrition, believes consumption of sweetened sodas lead to obesity.Low-fat, low-cal, low-carb.

Atkins, South Beach, The Zone.

Food fads may be distracting attention from something more insidiously piling on pounds: beverages.One of every five calories in the American diet is liquid.

The nation's single biggest "food" is soda, and nutrition experts have long demonized it.Now they are escalating the fight.In reports to be published in science journals this week, two groups of researchers hope to add evidence to the theory that soda and other sugar-sweetened drinks don't just go hand-in-hand with obesity, but actually cause it.

Not that these drinks are the only cause - genetics, exercise and other factors are involved - but that they are one cause, pe...