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Originally Posted by capmikee
Okay, I think I get it now. You fizz it once to make the bicarbonate and then the second time to make it fizzy for drinking. And you don't have a special gallon-size flask for the SodaStream, you just pour from there into the regular bottles.
This brings up a question. My wife and my doctor think it's bad that I only drink fizzy water. The doc thinks it's aggravating my GERD and my wife thinks it's causing bone loss. Did you ever see that story about how carbonated drinks cause bone loss, even when they're not sweet? I can't find it anymore, so I can't evaluate the claim. Do you think it's true, and does the magnesium counteract that effect?
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Hi capmikee,
Having lived in Germany for over 22 years now, I have long since become a convert to fizzy water and even have to buy it when I am staying in the UK, although I grew up drinking plain tap water. The fizzy stuff just seems to quench my thirst better, I don't know why. And plain water is well, so
plain...
I think the business with carbonated drinks causing bone loss is related to the phosphorous (or phosphates??? something that sounds like that anyway) which is in carbonated soft drinks, such as Coke and the like, not to fizzy water. I am sure I have read that somewhere, but don't ask me where right now!!!
Bone loss would certainly be counteracted by the magnesium, though. It is now suspected by some experts that osteoporosis is not so much a calcium deficiency as a magnesium deficiency, as without magnesium (and, of course, vitamin D), calcium cannot be metabolized properly.
As for fizzy water causing GERD, that I can't judge. The only link would be the fizz causing extra gas in your stomach which would force the LES to open and allow acid to reflux back. But do you get bloating from drinking fizzy water? I tend to drink it "medium", i.e. some bought fizzy waters are too fizzy for me. I also have a "Soda Club" machine at home and might look into this home-made mineral water, too. I have been buying Apollinaris lately, which is of course more expensive than filtering and fizzing up tap water.
How is the tum these days, by the way???
amanda