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posted by martyb on Wednesday May 17 2017, @05:47PM   Printer-friendly
from the things-you-can't-drink dept.

Here is part of an abstract (Javascript required; emphasis copied from the original stories) . . .

Carbon dioxide in carbonated beverages induces ghrelin release and increased food consumption in male rats: Implications on the onset of obesity.

RESULTS: Here, we show that rats consuming gaseous beverages over a period of around 1 year gain weight at a faster rate than controls on regular degassed carbonated beverage or tap water. This is due to elevated levels of the hunger hormone ghrelin and thus greater food intake in rats drinking carbonated drinks compared to control rats. Moreover, an increase in liver lipid accumulation of rats treated with gaseous drinks is shown opposed to control rats treated with degassed beverage or tap water. In a parallel study, the levels of ghrelin hormone were increased in 20 healthy human males upon drinking carbonated beverages compared to controls.

CONCLUSIONS: These results implicate a major role for carbon dioxide gas in soft drinks in inducing weight gain and the onset of obesity via ghrelin release and stimulation of the hunger response in male mammals.

Here is another article.

Fizzy water could cause obesity by encouraging you to eat more

Fizzy water could be a cause of obesity, according to a new study.

[...] The rats who drank fizzy drinks also showed signs of fat accumulating around their organs, a symptom of chronic obesity.

Levels of the hunger hormone ghrelin were "significantly higher" after the rats had had a carbonated drink.

[...] Gavin Partington, director-general of the British Soft Drinks Association, said the study was "bad science" because the outcomes for humans may not be the same as those for rats.

Regular coke has tons of sugar. So switch to Diet Coke. But that has artificial sweetener which can make you gain weight. So try La Croix flavored sparkling water, but oh, no, that is carbonated, and it can make you gain weight. Maybe bottled water? But that's probably no good either since whenever rats are experimented upon, something bad happens to them. Therefore I should just go on the wagon and stop drinking completely since even tap water is no good. Maybe researchers are being given too much money? Maybe living in cages causes problems in rats? Maybe back to regular coke.


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by VLM on Wednesday May 17 2017, @06:38PM (2 children)

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday May 17 2017, @06:38PM (#511288)

    Monster "nitrous" products were carbonated for legal reasons instead of actual nitrous oxide. I wonder if we'll see energy drinks with dissolved ... something other than CO2. Argon maybe.

    I brew my own loose leaf tea for caffeine. People who don't like tea think I'm crazy because they don't like crappy teabag powdery old bitter disgusting stuff inedible toxic waste artificial flavor tea. But since I brew my own with looseleaf its not rancid or acidic and tastes halfway decent.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 17 2017, @08:36PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 17 2017, @08:36PM (#511361)

    Monster "nitrous" products were carbonated for legal reasons instead of actual nitrous oxide.

    Or... no bottler in the entire country was set up to put n2o into water instead of co2 and "nitrous" was just a marketing name anyway.

    Nah. Couldn't have been that.

  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Farmer Tim on Wednesday May 17 2017, @10:20PM

    by Farmer Tim (6490) on Wednesday May 17 2017, @10:20PM (#511424)
    I'd prefer they used neon. Not from health concerns, I'd just like to see what happens when someone with a belly full of neon gets tasered.
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