Re:Study Diet Soft Drinks With Cardiac Risk [sparlking water?]

[Guest guest]

, Dave Hermanson

<moonphish wrote:

>

> I've been wondering about something for a while now. We all know how

bad soda is for us for a number of reasons and I drink naturally

carbonated bottled water. They say that our ocean is in big trouble

because of the increase in carbon dioxide and I was wondering if

carbonated water is bad to drink also. Does anyone know?? Thanks.

 

Hi Dave,

 

I've been wondering about the issue about sparkling water adn found

the following article:

 

Is fizzy water bad for you?

 

Druin Burch

Thursday February 2, 2006

The Guardian

 

How's this for inventing a new drink: first, you discover an odd gas

produced as a by-product of brewing beer. Next you pop some mice

inside a bell jar containing the gas and observe that they all die. In

a fit of inspiration you add the gas to some water and notice that it

fizzes. Discovering that this sinister gas is, in fact, carbon dioxide

- the very substance we make effortlessly when we breathe - you then

try and persuade the world to drink the stuff. It sounds crazy but

both Joseph Priestley and Jacob Schweppe thought it perfectly

reasonable when they introduced 18th-century society to the joys of

fizzy water.

 

 

The sceptic

 

 

Is fizzy water bad for you?

 

Druin Burch

Thursday February 2, 2006

The Guardian

 

How's this for inventing a new drink: first, you discover an odd gas

produced as a by-product of brewing beer. Next you pop some mice

inside a bell jar containing the gas and observe that they all die. In

a fit of inspiration you add the gas to some water and notice that it

fizzes. Discovering that this sinister gas is, in fact, carbon dioxide

- the very substance we make effortlessly when we breathe - you then

try and persuade the world to drink the stuff. It sounds crazy but

both Joseph Priestley and Jacob Schweppe thought it perfectly

reasonable when they introduced 18th-century society to the joys of

fizzy water.

 

Article continues

But now, in the modern scheme of mad health worries, carbonated water

ranks high. Fizzy water, say the worriers, weakens your bones and

strips the lining of your stomach. But can the tiny amount of CO2 in a

bottle of mineral water really harm us?

 

Happily, research has been conducted. Spanish women given carbonated

water were found to have perfectly normal bones after two months of

treatment. A group in Omaha were given carbonated drinks and their

urine samples showed that carbonation led to no increase in the amount

of the calcium they lost. So not only has carbonated water been shown

to have no effect on weakening bones, there seems almost no

conceivable means by which it could.

 

There have even been studies looking at the effect of carbonated

drinks on the stomach and gut. Among the many that showed there was no

harm done was an American study on competitive cyclists. Even when

exercising like lunatics and producing maximum amounts of CO2,

consuming a little more of the gas via fizzy water made no difference

to the bikers. And all of this is without even resorting to animal

studies, such as the one from Poultry Science showing that fizzy

drinks helped cockerels cope better with heat stress.

 

Unsurprisingly, given the hefty turnover of carbon dioxide our bodies

deal with effortlessly each day, there remains no serious reason to

think that carbonation makes water dangerous. Swapping a glass of

plain old tap water for the bottled variety adds nothing save a little

bit of sparkle.

[Guest guest]

It's good to know that there are no known problems with sparkling water but

silly me

read " Naturally Sparkling " on the bottle and thought to my self they must

somehow

get it out of the ground sparkling. How quickly did I forget words like

" Naturally "

are lies and mean nothing! I'm back to looking for a water filter which most

closely

recreates water before " Man " started screwing with it. Any suggestions would

be

gratefully appreciated.

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Dave

 

Use this link to compare water filtration systems:

 

http://www.waterfiltercomparisons.net/WaterFilter_Comparison.cfm

 

Cheers

Devon

 

 

, Dave Hermanson

<moonphish wrote:

>

> It's good to know that there are no known problems with sparkling

water but silly me

> read " Naturally Sparkling " on the bottle and thought to my self

they must somehow

> get it out of the ground sparkling. How quickly did I forget