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Re:Soda May Age You as Much as Smoking by mikeash on Tuesday October 21, 2014 @03:38PM (#8489372)
Could it be that sugar is responsible, but other stuff in fruit juice somehow inhibits it or compensates for it?
Re:Soda May Age You as Much as Smoking by pbhjpbhj on Tuesday October 21, 2014 @10:12PM (#8491216)
I was thinking in the opposite direction, that maybe sugar is responsible but the effect is triggered/compounded by the bubbles [or C02 or carbonic acid] in some way?

There's a joke in here about muddy waters [a cocktail made variously with coke and OJ] somewhere ...

Re:Soda May Age You as Much as Smoking by iribe on Wednesday October 22, 2014 @01:39AM (#8491564)
I bet Deepak Chopra knows, and it has something to do with quantum energy.