Carbonated Beverages

Question
Can carbonated beverages affect your exercise performance?

Can carbonated beverages affect blood pressure?

Can carbonated beverages affect pulse?

Do carbonated beverages make your heart work harder during exercise?

Is it healthier to drink or not to drink carbonated beverages?

Do carbonated beverages have different effects on men or women?

Does the carbonation in soda affect the body more than other ingredients?

Can carbonated beverages make it take longer for a person's pulse to go from exercising pulse to resting pulse?

Does drinking more carbonated beverages than water affect the body?

Can carbonated beverages cause any diseases?

Answer
Hello Leslie,
Lots of questions there. I'll see if I can sum it up.
I think the best thing to do would be to drink water, just makes sense to me. That being said, I would be more concerned with other things that carbonated beverages have in them such as caffeine, sugar, and phosphorous.

Too much caffeine over time can lead to tolerance, addiction, and osteoporosis.
Too much sugar, can effect body fat levels and is a cause of diabetes.
Too much phosphorous can throw the calcium/phosphorous ratio out of line, again which can leach minerals from bone increasing the chance of osteoporosis.

Women are especially prone to osteoporosis as they get older.

As far as the carbonation part and heart rate, caffeine will cause the increase in heart rate and blood pressure.

Hope that helps.

To Your Health!
Mark Shields

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