Study Shows Diet Soda Paired with Alcohol May be More Potent than Regular
According to the study, diet drinks could factor into whether a person blows above or below the legal limit on a breath test.
Substituting Diet Coca-Cola for regular to pair with rum for that classic cocktail? It could make you drunker — the sugar in regular sodas slows down the absorption of alcohol from the stomach to the bloodstream. An NPR blog on eating and health highlights a study set to be published in the April issue of the journal "Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental. "Alcohol, consumed with a diet mixer, results in higher (BrAC) Breath Alcohol Concentrations as compared to the same amount of alcohol consumed with a sugar-sweetened mixer," the blog quotes Cecile Marczinski, a cognitive psychologist and the study's author, as saying. The main takeaway? Diet soda could factor into whether you blow above or below the legal limit on a breath test. A …
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