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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/0...-water-benefits.html Sad for me, because the only two things I drink, generally, are coffee and Perrier. | ||
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| "I've got morons on my team." Mitt Romney Minor Deity  |
Sounds to me like a mostly green light, unless you're an addict who guzzles the stuff. Well, Quirt?  | |||
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Yea, sounded like that to me. But if you're going to drink the stuff, switch to Pellegrino....it's much tastier.... 
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My favorite when I lived in Brazil was Caxambu. Unfortunately, I've never been able to find it available here in the USA. Big Al
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| Does This Avatar Make My Butt Look Big? Minor Deity  |
Sounds like much ado about nothing to me. Every researcher is hell bent on making a name for him or herself. They don't even try to quantify the infinitesimal risk they are claiming is worthy of a news story. Oh, drinking carbonated water raises your risk of getting an owie in your tooth by .000001 percent? Drink carbonated water if you like. Sheez. | |||
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Yes, pass the Pelligrino.
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| "I've got morons on my team." Mitt Romney Minor Deity |
I'll drink to that!  I'm reminded of the far more important scare that the Women's Health Initiative perpetrated on women. They found a very tiny correlation between taking estrogen treatment and an increased likelihood of breast cancer (though all-type mortality actually went down). Women all over the country went to their OB demanding to be taken off the treatment and berating their physician for trying to kill them. Of course, the hormone replacement treatment was life altering (in a positive sense) for millions, but that absolutely tiny (though statistically significant because of the huge sample size) increase in the number of cases per million drove thousands off the treatment. They latched onto a single number among a blizzard of other numbers that offered a much more nuanced view. | |||
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| Has Achieved Nirvana |
Based on the following info from the ADA (linked in the original NYT article), I definitely wouldn't be sweating the plain fizzy water. The flavored stuff is more of an issue.... https://www.ada.org/en/~/media...he%20United%20States
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| Has Achieved Nirvana |
People can take that advice. Or not. It's not like a vaccine, where you're putting everyone around you at risk, too. | |||
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| knitterati Beatification Candidate  |
This article doesn’t even go into the scary “aluminum cans may cause Alzheimer’s!” bit. My friends call fizzy water “dementia water” and we all drink it. I try to limit to one can per day, and that’s pretty easy. Oh, plus the one glass of prosecco…
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Aluminum cans are lined with plastic, so I think there's minimal aluminum exposure, but dangerous compounds could leach out of the liner.
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| czarina Has Achieved Nirvana  |
This is not entirely accurate. It's true that estrogen replacement therapy significantly increases breast cancer risk. But the solution turns out not to be quitting estrogen. It's necessary to take both estrogen and progesterone together to do hormone therapy safely.
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