Fizzy drinks and sodas don’t have much success in relieving an upset stomach, but the air bubbles or real ginger can help the GI tract in its digestion a little bit. Photo: iStock.

Carbonated drinks known as sparkling, fizzy, seltzer and soda waters are thought to impact the waistline. A new study weighs in, but don’t expect too much.

No fizzy water was consumed as part of this study either. The effect of hemodialysis is said to mimic the effect of carbon dioxide in the blood—which increases the pH or alkalinity inside red ...

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Unfortunately, it looks like sparkling water isn’t a miracle weight loss remedy. Christian Moro/ Shutterstock. Looking at these numbers, fizzy water will probably not have a measurable effect on ...