Anybody got anything bad to say about carbonated water?

[Jackpine Radical]

Know of any adverse health effects due to carbonation? I don't drink soda or stuff sweetened either naturally or artificially, but I like carbonated water, either plain or with maybe a citrus flavoring.

[Horse with no Name]

1. It's made by a factory that employs 6-year old illegal immigrants

who live in large houses with regular lightbulbs.

[spoony]

30. Well that's not so ba...wait did you say

natural light bulbs??!!! :o

[Xipe Totec]

2. Green House Gas

:yoiks:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

3. It leads to global warming.

Plus, Hitler was in charge when it was invented.

[AlCzervik]

5. but Hitler liked dogs, thats good right?

:D

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

7. Oh, so now you're defending Hitler?

Why don't you grow up and do your own research!

:P

[Bridget Burke]

36. He's obviously a paid lobbyist for the Carbonated Water Industry.

(Accusations & pseudoscience can be fun!)

[sweetheart]

4. It reduces stomach acidity

I like the stuff with a tiny pinch of orange, lime or lemon.

[MGKrebs]

6. It gives you gas which leads to global warming.

[Ian David]

8. It creates limestone caves, so it can't be good for you.

You probably shouldn't let it drip on you for thousands of years.

[Kolesar]

12. You won't get kidney stones, though

[KG]

9. two words: secondary flatulence

:hi:

[Solly Mack]

10. wasser kein gas, bitte

whatever floats your boat :)

[Katherine Brengle]

11. There is some issue with it related to bone density I believe.

I'd have to search for it and I'm too lazy right now...

I drink quite a bit of Coke Zero, but I do try to balance it out with plain water, vitamins, a good diet, and strength training.

[Katherine Brengle]

14. Okay, just checked around --

it seems the OTHER ingredients, like phosphoric acid and caffeine, are the culprits, not the carbonation itself.

So rock on.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

15. Phosphoric acid in coke will cause your bones to smoke.... or

weaken, thin and or generally not remain as boney as they once were.

Almost on edit: I'm sure Pepsi does the same, I want to be an equal opportunity detractor.

Almost on edit: That's all I have to say about that.

[Katherine Brengle]

27. lol

[Bridget Burke]

34. But Mexican cokes have pure cane sugar instead of corn syrup...

So the healthiness of the sugar surely outweighs the effects of the other stuff?

[HysteryDiagnosis]

40. Pure cane sugar..... the suggestions

http://www.westonaprice.org/modernfood/highfructose.html
The Double Danger of
High Fructose Corn Syrup

By Bill Sanda, BS, MBA

For many years, Dr. Meira Fields and her coworkers at the US Department of Agriculture investigated the harmful effects of dietary sugar on rats. They discovered that when male rats are fed a diet deficient in copper, with sucrose as the carbohydrate, they develop severe pathologies of vital organs. Liver, heart and testes exhibit extreme swelling, while the pancreas atrophies, invariably leading to death of the rats before maturity.

Sucrose is a disaccharide composed of 50 percent glucose and 50 percent fructose. Dr. Fields repeated her experiments to determine whether it was the glucose or fructose moiety that caused the harmful effects. Starch breaks down into glucose when digested. On a copper-deficient diet, the male rats showed some signs of copper deficiency, but not the gross abnormalities of vital organs that occur in rats on the sucrose diet. When the rats were fed fructose, the fatal organ abnormalities occured.

Lysl oxidase is a copper-dependent enzyme that participates in the formation of collagen and elastin. Fructose seems to interfere with copper metabolism to such an extent that collagen and elastin cannot form in growing animals--hence the hypertrophy of the heart and liver in young males. The females did not develop these abnormalities, but they resorbed their litters.1

These experiements should give us pause when we consider the great increase in the use of high fructose corn syrup during the past 30 years, particularly in soft drinks, fruit juices and other beverages aimed at growing children, children increasingly likely to be copper deficient as modern parents no longer serve liver to their families. (Liver is by far the best source of copper in human diets.)

"The bodies of the children I see today are mush," observed a concerned chiropractor recently. The culprit is the modern diet, high in fructose and low in copper-containing foods, resulting in inadequate formation of elastin and collagen--the sinews that hold the body together.

[Catshrink]

13. burp?

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

16. If it contains phosphoric acid, it can

be a problem if you are a menopausal woman--it does a number on calcium in the bones. Don't know if it is in plain carbonated water, though.

[joeunderdog]

24. There are different kinds of carbonation, however.

One is bad for the bones. One is good for you. The makers of the natural soda made with green teas claim they are in the minority using the healthy carbonation.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

32. Good information to know!

Thanks!

[Bronyraurus]

17. It tastes funny

[ThatsMyBarack]

18. And "flavoring" doesn't help it taste any better....

....unless it's loaded with sugar.

[spoony]

31. That was always my problem with it

If it tasted good and not like seltzer, inevitably it had some clandestine sweetener in it.

[left is right]

19. love it

if you could buy it as readily as regular pop, it would be all I ever drunk, except of course for juice, water and milk. I don't want to hear that it is bad for me--I'm not giving it up! (Sticks fingers in my ears and sing "LALALALALA" very loudly.)

[Critters2]

20. Me too

I drink it all the time. And I don't believe it's bad for me. It's water. When I shop at the IGA, I buy LaCroix water, because it's naturally carbonated. But Kroger only sells its name brand, which is not natural.

When I was in grad school just EVERYBODY drank Perrier all the time, and you could get it everywhere. What happened to that?

[left is right]

22. My local market has a Mexican food section

and sells a brand of carbonated mineral water in a glass bottle that is wonderful (don't remember the name right now). I pop it in the freezer, just until it forms a skim of ice and then drink it down as fast as I can-heaven

[nemo137]

26. Minaugua

From the people who brought you Jarritos, which is the best pop on the planet.

[conscious evolution]

28. They got Jack in the Boxed

They had a batch that was contamanaited by the carbonation process.That and the fact that they advertised as naturally carbonated killed them.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

21. It doesn't stay carbonated long enough after opening.

We buy it by the liter and love it.

[bbgrunt]

23. It should be banned in public as it makes people belch which pollutes MY air.

[Zhade]

25. It sucks?

Got nothin'.

[karlrschneider]

29. Rumsfeld exhales carbon dioxide!

Avoid it like the plague!!!!!!!111!111!!!1!!
I am SERIES

[Tesha]

33. Two and a half risks...

Two and a half risks:

1) Someone already mentioned flatulence. All that gas can't
stay inside you and will eventually come out one end or the
other.

2) Carbonated water is actually "carbonic acid", a mild acid.
Someone mentioned that it disolves limestone; well, it will
also have some deleterious effects on tooth enamel. In the
grand scheme of things that rot your teeth, though, it's
probably far better for you than sugared sodas though less
good for you than still water.

3) If you're drinking "Club Soda" rather than "Seltzer", note
that there are salts in the soda, possibly including good old
Sodium Chloride. So factor that into your total salt consumption.

All in all, seltzer seems like a pretty safe drink if you want
a bit more pizazz than ordinary water.

Tesha

[radfringe]

35. bubbles tickle my nose... one time

it tickled so much, it made me sneeze real violently and I whacked my head on the table... ouch...

[Canuckistanian]

37. Aha! Then it's a health hazard after all!

Ban it!

[Edweird]

38. It makes me burp.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

39. Couldn't stand seltzer (NY name for it) when :I was a kid and absolutely love it now. nt

[NoPasaran]

41. If you're not careful, it could put an eye out!

Maybe even start a fire!

[Jackpine Radical]

42. Well, that's true.

But I'm not sure it's a disadvantage. Maybe I'll take it up as a new source of thrills instead of running with scissors.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

43. I like it because living on a boat, I don't have a huge refrigerator

and seltzer water tastes fairly cold even though it isn't refrigerated. Plus I like the taste. But I wasn't aware that natural carbonated water is healthier. Thought they were the same. So thanks for the info, and I'll read the bottles more closely now. :)

[MazeRat7]

44. viva la "Topo Chico" - mineral water with natural carbonation. Its excellent. -nt

[Blackhatjack]

45. I drink flavored seltzer all the time, and if I revert to soft drinks they taste too sweet...

... and I immediately put on a few pounds.

Flavored versions(raspberry, orange, lemon-lime).