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As far as I can tell, the paper does not include carbonated water as one of the options. It says: "All rats were provided with standard diet Teklad Global 18%
by tomohawk 9y ago
As far as I can tell, the paper does not include carbonated water as one of the options. It says:
"All rats were provided with standard diet Teklad Global
18% protein (2018SC from Harlan Laboratories). Rats of
each group were supplemented with different beverages:
(i) tap water, (ii) regular degassed CB (DgCB), (iii) regular CB (RCB) and (iv) diet CB (DCB)"
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- jjnoakes 9y agoRead page 6: "To extrapolate the study on humans, ghrelin levels were measured in male subjects after drinking any of the aforementioned beverages, in addition to CW (no caloric content, no sugar)."
- tomohawk 9y agoOK, so they didn't do the rat study where they only changed the carbonation (still vs carbonated water), but later it appears they did this for the human subjects and measured the hormone level. It would be interesting to see a study with only that one variable changed to see actual weight gain in animal and human populations. Anecdotal, but I changed from carbonated soft drinks to carbonated water and noted a marked difference.
- saurik 9y agoFor this model, this hormone is only an indirect effect on weight (through hunger); however, there is also a direct effect that is pretty strong: you are no longer drinking a ton of sugar, which has a noticeable number of calories in and of itself. They aren't saying the weight gain is equivalent, only the hormone release.