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Expert: - 9/25/2010


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Have read where CO2 is reported to increase obesity and Insulin resistance in humans.

Is this true?

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Dear Wm,

Where did you read this?  I'd be curious.  Because we are constantly exposed to CO2 all the time.  It's a bit like saying that breathing O2 causes death because everyone in history who has breathed O2 has eventually died.

:P

But I'm willing to entertain the idea if I can get more specific information on just *how* CO2 can do this.

Dana

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