Thursday, March 30, 2006
Counterpoint
I think carbonation is great! And any of you who think its bad for you: you are probably good smart people, but you are wrong. I am sorry, that's the way it is.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/water/story/0,,1700284,00.html
The idea that those delightful bubbles steal your bone calcium comes from a study that used cola. Caffeine has been shown to cause calcium deficiencies. My lovely fizz has not. Woohoo!
Bubbles for some, small American flags for the rest!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/water/story/0,,1700284,00.html
The idea that those delightful bubbles steal your bone calcium comes from a study that used cola. Caffeine has been shown to cause calcium deficiencies. My lovely fizz has not. Woohoo!
Bubbles for some, small American flags for the rest!
10 Comments:
Jane, you ignorant slut.
Justification, SNL.
The link I posted was on non-caffintated bubbly water.
I too enjoy the occasional small american flag in my beverage. So we agree.
I used to call Americans snotty. Now I include all white people.
(This is actually a subtle joke for those at the table who enjoyed our painfully ethnocentric Affirmative Action discussion, during which we discovered that "white" is a very broad ethnic term. It's not just English people.)
Go on with your lives. I need my bone density so I'll stick with milk and those tasty Odwalla drinks. I think I'll have one right now.
Michelle: If by "tasty" you mean "hideously expensive" , and if by "painfully ethnocentric" you mean "enlightening and well-informed", then yes.
I hate to get nitpicky, but:
"The carbonation reduces the amount of calcium in your bones, and that means earlier onset of osteoporosis."
This cannot stand. CANNOT!! This quote is what your article cited, but the article that cited it did not back this up with anything. The first person who can cite me a scientific study that shows a link between carbonation (the bubbles, not the caffeine, corn syrup, caramel color, or aspartame) will receive a "TR's official apology gift pack", which includes:
-12 oz. of uncarbonated water
-An official written apology, written by my executive secretary and run through my signature machine.
-all of my A&W coupons (some are expired)
-one of your "american dollars"
until then, I maintain that:
(a) Alison is crazy.
(b) carbonation is as benign as the room full of pillows that I want to have someday in my house (the walls will also be made of pillows).
(c) I am kind of hungry right now.
Where's your justification?
extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof, eh?
I am not saying I can prove fizz is not bad, I am just saying that we have no reason to believe that it is. The burden of proof is on the prover, not the disprover. Otherwise I can say "there are aliens here on earth. Disprove it."
so far, none the places I have heard that them fizzy drinks are calcium thieves offer any support for that claim. The closest I can get to some study about carbonation and bones is this article: http://www.drweil.com/u/QA/QA157077/
and it says that it is cola that does this, not fizz. That's one MD that agrees with me, even if his hair is ridiculous.
The site you posted claims that carbonation breaks down calcium in the body, depleting it. That article links here:
http://www.mindconnection.com/library
/health/skinhealth.htm
But that article offers no qualification for what it says. Plus, that website looks bogus to me. That article was written by "Mark Lamendola, lifelong skin owner". Click the "home" link at the top of that page and tell me if it looks like a credible source to you.
Let's be sophisticated about this: Mark Lamendola is poopface.
The use of sophisticated and poopface in the same sentence is the ultimate in sophistication.
Bravah.
Case closed. Oh wait, the Defense rests.
This link makes reference to the "fizz" in question. Decide for yourselves.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5003894
Hmm. There's also been a rise in cell phone use over the last few years. Could that be causing esophegeal cancer?
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