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Re:Germs That Love Diet Soda by cm2012 on Friday April 06, 2018 @10:19PM (#16779059)
When my close friend got bariatric surgery, the doctors told him the carbonatiob would expand his stomach much faster and so seltzer was forbidden forever. Might also apply to all stomachs.
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Re:Germs That Love Diet Soda by ztjio on Saturday April 07, 2018 @04:51AM (#16779970)
This means nothing for a normal person. Stomachs are massively elastic under normal circumstances.
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Re:Germs That Love Diet Soda by jon_richards on Saturday April 07, 2018 @05:49AM (#16780091)
Not quite nothing, there's a reason people get their stomachs stapled.
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Re:Germs That Love Diet Soda by khedoros1 on Saturday April 07, 2018 @04:55PM (#16782916)
Reading the thread, the comment you responded to was using "normal person" as a contrast against someone who had undergone bariatric surgery (which stomach stapling is a variety of).
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Re:Germs That Love Diet Soda by mythBustan on Saturday April 07, 2018 @02:36AM (#16779665)
There are videos that show that most of the carbonation effervesces in your esophagus and mouth, and most of the carbonation is gone by the time it reaches your stomach.
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