Carbonated soft drinks are the single largest source of calories in the diet in America as soft drinks add large amounts of sugar to it. That is the reason they are most likely to contribute to obesity and the related health problems among the Children. controlling its consumption can avoid the risk of children being obese, and suffering the problems of high blood pressure and heart attack and stroke in later life, suggests in a study in the print and online issue of Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association.

It has already been determined that the amount of salt intake in diet determines the consumption of fluid intake in an adult, researchers at ‘St. George’s University of London’, England investigated whether the same happens in a child too.

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