Fizzy drinks, what's the issue?

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Genuine question, I get coke might be something people would rather their kids didn't drink a lot of. But plain sparkling water? Why do so many people disapprove or forbid their kids from going near them.

Oh God this is my life.

Plain water has a neutral pH. sparklng is mildly acidic.

With soft drinks, even if they are sugar-free, manufacturers usually add more acids to make them palatable (to cut through the sweetness) and to increase the shelf life. Diet coke contains citric acid and phosphoric acid.

And it’s the phosphoric acid that can cause calcium deficiency by blocking absorption.

Where do we stand on popping candy

Personally I use it on steak and blow job day.

Yeah me too

When you lose people close to you to esophageal cancer and one of the reasons was them drinking fizzy drinks regularly come talk to me

I know someone who's teeth are absolutely ruined from drinking fizzy water. They look yellow and wrecked. It has damaged their tooth enamel so badly though that they can't whiten them or anything as would cause further damage :-(

I'm not keen on any sort of water. I force myself to drink 1 litre water a day but you'd have to pay me to drink fizzy water. I do drink too much diet coke though

Statistically, it's far more likely to be cigarettes and alcohol than the mixers or a can of Pepsi.

Well I've made it to nearly 60 with all my teeth and I drink sparkling water every lunchtime.

I'm not going to stop now.

Fucks sake you bunch of fun sponges, you know you’ve got to die of something, right?

Life is for the living. The stress of agonising over all this nonsense is quite bad for you too!

(I do have fizzy water as an occasional treat but that’s because I think it’s wrong to have single use plastic bottles, even though I recycle them. Hey, I can be a fun sponge too!).

Did they properly brush their teeth three times a day?

Oesophageal cancer is horrid - sorry you have seen relatives with it. It isn’t associated with fizzy drinks though.

Hardly a relevant comparison as they have different purposes.

Unflavoured fizzy water probably won’t do your teeth any harm but then according to Colgate it won’t do them much good compared to water with fluoride in it. That is, there is nothing that would strengthen the enamel in it. So Colgate says replacing fizzy pop or other acidic drinks with fizzy water is probably a good move but replacing water that has fluoride in it with fizzy water is probably not a good idea. So then it seems to me that if you think you don’t drink enough and are just looking at ways of drinking more then fizzy water seems to be fine.

https://www.colgate.com/en-us/oral-health/tooth-sensitivity/is-sparkling-water-bad-for-your-teeth

Sorry you lost someone close to you with this awful disease but it’s an absolute myth that carbonated drinks are in any way responsible. The incidence of this type of cancer has risen in parallel with the consumption of fizzy drinks and at one point there was a suggestion that there was a link. Studies since have concluded there isn’t. They contain sugar and chemicals which may contribute to reflux or obesity, which can increase the risk of cancer in general, but the carbonation itself has no link.