Can fizzy water make you fat?

Conclusion There seemed to be a clear distinction in this study between fizzy and non-fizzy-drink consumption in terms of weight gain, appetite and ghrelin production. These findings were further supported by the study in healthy adult volunteers, which similarly showed that the fizzy drinks increased ghrelin production. But does this mean that carbonation and ghrelin production provide the whole answer to why soft drink consumption is linked with obesity? But this doesn’t account for the link between weight gain and diet drinks which don’t contain sugar’They suggest carbonation could be the common link between the two. This is possible. But it may also be that other unhealthy lifestyle factors, which this study didn’t look at, could also be a common link between sugary and diet fizzy drinks.. In real life, people who drink soda lots of fizzy drinks could also be more likely to have a less healthy diet and exercise less. It could still be argued that even if people drinking soft drinks do eat more unhealthy food, this is caused by the carbonation making them eat more, but this isn’t proven. Another point to bear in mind is that this research was conducted primarily in rats. Human beings may not have identical biology. And although the researchers did follow this up with a human study, they only looked at a very small sample of young men. We can’t necessarily apply their results to women or other populations. Even in the rats, they found though the rats ha...
Source: NHS News Feed - Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Obesity Food/diet Source Type: news