Fizzy water has long been heralded as a healthy drink choice. One to turn to once you’ve finally weaned yourself off that hardcore Diet Coke addiction. Or when you’re trying to keep hydrated but are getting bored AF with plain old tap water. It is water after all… It might be fizzy, but it’s still water, right?
SO, IS SPARKLING WATER HEALTHY?
Fizzy drinks are mainly considered unhealthy because of their sugar content. But researchers from Palestine’s Birzeit University wanted to find out whether it was actually due to the gasses in the drink rather than the sugar.
In the study, they gave rats tap water, flat water, ordinary soda, and diet sugar-free, found that when they gave rats fizzy drinks over water they gained weight at a faster rate. This weight gain was because the rat’s levels of the hormone that controls hunger, called ghrelin, was elevated.
