I have always restricted myself to regular water and the occasional beer; however, my friend got me turned onto the sparking water trend and I’ve seemed to be indulging pretty heavily as of late. Are there any adverse effects from drinking soda water/sparkling water? It seems to fill me up when I want a snack and I can’t say I dislike the grapefruit flavor.
Thanks for this question. I am curious to know. I removed soda drinks with sugar (sprite, fanta, 7 up etc) from my work day life last year. I told myself I would let myself have 1-2 per flight leg (one outbound, one inbound) on biz travel, but that, as it turns out was 31 weeks on the road last year or probably more like 100+ cans. So this year, I decided to take that out and just go with sparkling water or club soda…so curious to hear if there is any downside. At the office I drink Green tea in the afternoon. The problem is when I am on the road and on the fly…it is just too easy to get these easy calories in the can.
I did some reading in to this and from a basic googling there didn’t seem to be any adverse effects of drinking carbonated water. Maybe there is more in depth research out there but from what I read it just makes you feel a bit more full.
Last year during heavy training, for some reason I just got hooked on pop. I think having the odd can of coke on a long ride really made me start craving it afterwards, and before you knew it, I was buying 2L weekly with our grocery shop. To combat this, we bought a SodaStream unit, which is awesome. I’m usually not one for kitchen gadgets but I can’t talk these little units up enough. Now instead of pop I’ll have some sparkling water with a lime squeezed in it, or something to that effect. Very refreshing, and it’s always on hand. I drink way more water now then I ever used to and haven’t noticed any negative effects (aside from the odd, massive burp).
The only problem I’ve discovered is that the carbonation can cause acid reflux/heartburn. I forget what’s in La Croix, but plain Perrier is fine, it’s just mineral water with fizz.
Carbonated water is fine.
Watch the ones with artificial sweeteners if you care.
I hope not, I drink Perrier by the liter 
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If you suffer from acid reflux, gastritis or heartburn, drnking carbonated anything will only make problems worse. Carbonated water leaves mineral build up on the teeth if not brushed regularly.
I did read an article years ago linking carbonated beverages to loss of bone density. But I can’t remember the quantity of beverage you would need to drink. A quality diet should counter that I would think. I switched to sparkling water years ago, normally with a splash of juice in it.