Soda May Age You as Much as Smoking

Re:Soda May Age You as Much as Smoking by weinzierl on Tuesday October 21, 2014 @04:49PM (#8489877)

    No significant associations were observed between
    consumption of diet sodas or noncarbonated SSBs and 
    telomere length.

I don't understand how the carbonation can have an effect. It's just CO2 and a little bit of H2CO3, neither of which is metabolized.

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Re:Soda May Age You as Much as Smoking by mikeyouse on Tuesday October 21, 2014 @04:58PM (#8489953)

The results probably vary due to the different classes of beverages, it's not like they make a Coke Zero-Carbonation.

I'm actually having a hard time coming up with non-carbonated sugar-sweetened beverages as I don't drink any, but I'm picturing stuff like Honest Tea or those Starbucks Frappuccino things.

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Re:Soda May Age You as Much as Smoking by Symbiote on Tuesday October 21, 2014 @05:13PM (#8490049)

> non-carbonated sugar-sweetened beverages

Bottled "tea" seems the right kind of thing.

Common in the UK are sweetened fruit juice drinks. Obvious examples are Sunny D and J2O, but there are also plenty of drinks sold in very similar packaging to pure fruit juices, which are actually diluted and sweetened (with sugar). They have to say "juice drink" on the label.

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Re:Soda May Age You as Much as Smoking by akgerber on Wednesday October 22, 2014 @02:22PM (#8494199)

"Juice Drink" e.g. http://www.welchs.com/products/chillers-juice-drinks, sweetened teas, and lemonade are pretty common. Hawaiian Punch is available in many soda machines.

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Re:Soda May Age You as Much as Smoking by thaumasiotes on Wednesday October 22, 2014 @09:56AM (#8492686)

The Arizona, Gatorade, and Snapple brands would be appalled. SoBe, too.

(I'm not a huge fan of carbonation, except, oddly, for pineapple-flavored drinks. But mostly I just don't get why you'd want to take a perfectly good drink and add pain to it.)

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