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- From: micjrs@mica.mic.ki.se (Richard Soderberg, MD)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Pos/Neg Benefits of CO2 in pop (soda)
- Message-ID: <188@kixtal.UUCP>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 12:13:06 GMT
- References: <1992Nov13.120103.12580@hemlock.cray.com>
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- Organization: The Karolinska Institute, Sweden
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- X-XXMessage-ID: <A72D50FD1A027A15@bart.mic.ki.se>
- X-XXDate: Mon, 16 Nov 92 12:22:05 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov13.120103.12580@hemlock.cray.com> Jim Knoll,
- n3022@cray.com writes:
- >.............. Specifically, it seems that if the body gives off CO2
- >when we exhale, it makes sense that to drink carbonated beverages with
- >CO2 could be less than beneficial to the human body.
- The amount of CO2 absorbed from a Carbonated Drink must be completely
- insignificant compared to the amounts of CO2 generated by the ever ongoing
- oxidation of carbons in the body.(In the northern parts of Sweden there is
- an expression which aptly describes the relation: " like a mosquito
- f*rt in a hurricane"). A general principle in the human body is to have
- systems
- with tremendous redundance and great regulatory stability. If you
- consider smoking,
- the surprising thing with it is not the fact that it kills you if you
- do'nt die
- from something else first but the fact that it often takes several
- decades to commit
- suicide with cigarettes. As for O2, the transfer of it across the
- gastrointestinal
- membranes must be homeopathic to say the least compared to the transfer
- across the
- alveolar membranes in the lung. In fact, after a passage through a
- healthy lung
- the blood has taken up all the oxygen it can carry. Most of the oxygen is
- transported in hemoglobin molecules where it is chemically bound, not
- physically
- dissolved. Increasing oxygen in the inhaled air will only slightly
- increase the
- (small) fraction of O2 that is dissolved in plasma (which may be
- beneficial to
- patients with diseased or damaged lungs)
- /RS
-