Dr Karl said that if you mix spirits with a diet soft drink you will get more intoxicated, since the sugar in regular soft drinks lessens the strength. (I think he said ‘strength’)

what does the sugar do and why doesn’t the sugar substitute (like Aspartame and Saccharin) do the same?

Arts said:

Dr Karl said that if you mix spirits with a diet soft drink you will get more intoxicated, since the sugar in regular soft drinks lessens the strength* . (I think he said ‘strength’)

what does the sugar do and why doesn’t the sugar substitute (like Aspartame and Saccharin) do the same?

• of the alcohol

Dr Karl knows jack.

Peak Warming Man said:

Dr Karl knows jack.

Jack doesn’t live here.

Arts said:

Dr Karl said that if you mix spirits with a diet soft drink you will get more intoxicated, since the sugar in regular soft drinks lessens the strength. (I think he said ‘strength’)

what does the sugar do and why doesn’t the sugar substitute (like Aspartame and Saccharin) do the same?

The longer the alcohol stays in the stomach, the less alcohol there is to absorb when it eventually gets into the intestines. I’d speculate that a sugared drink may stay in the stomach longer than an unsugared one.

Peak Warming Man said:

Dr Karl knows jack.

Did you know Dr Karl has a facial recognition mental problem?

Skeptic Pete said:

Peak Warming Man said:

Dr Karl knows jack.

Did you know Dr Karl has a facial recognition mental problem?

Didn’t know about the facial recognition bit.

Peak Warming Man said:

Dr Karl knows jack.

Jack who?

>>Did you know Dr Karl has a facial recognition mental problem?<<

I knew this. But I can’t remember why I know this.

Carmen_Sandiego said:

Arts said:

Dr Karl said that if you mix spirits with a diet soft drink you will get more intoxicated, since the sugar in regular soft drinks lessens the strength. (I think he said ‘strength’)

what does the sugar do and why doesn’t the sugar substitute (like Aspartame and Saccharin) do the same?

The longer the alcohol stays in the stomach, the less alcohol there is to absorb when it eventually gets into the intestines. I’d speculate that a sugared drink may stay in the stomach longer than an unsugared one.

hmmm… possibly..

Peak Warming Man said:

Dr Karl knows jack.

but is he right about the alcohol?

buffy said:

>>Did you know Dr Karl has a facial recognition mental problem?<<

I knew this. But I can’t remember why I know this.

Prosopagnosia

This is probably the research, Arts:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23216417

They don’t seem to offer an explanation, they just did the readings. But I haven’t read the whole paper.

Arts said:

but is he right about the alcohol?

Apparently.

http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2013/02/05/alcohol-and-diet-soda-may-equal-a-bad-mix/

Researchers gave college students vodka drinks with regular soda and with diet soda, and the diet soda group got more intoxicated, faster – about 20% more intoxicated than those who mixed regular soda with liquor, according to research published Tuesday

…

Using breath tests to measure alcohol levels, researchers found that students who drank vodka and regular soda registered just under the legal limit. But drinking the vodka-diet soda mixture tipped students over the limit.

…

But the students said they felt the same no matter what they drank, even though tests showed the diet drinkers were about one-fifth more intoxicated. To put that in perspective, you’d have to add almost a whole other shot of vodka to the sugar-sweetened drink to equal the potency of the diet drink mixture.

There is a try at an explanation here:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-02/ace-ad012913.php

thanks buffy and CS…. nice job

Peak Warming Man said:

Skeptic Pete said:

Peak Warming Man said:

Dr Karl knows jack.

Did you know Dr Karl has a facial recognition mental problem?

Didn’t know about the facial recognition bit.

unknown

I’ve met him

he’s a fairly tall and relatively well built bloke, his wrists are fairly wide – you wouldn’t want to mess with him. his real background from what I saw was of an agricultural background of eastern Europe.

wookiemeister said:

Peak Warming Man said:

Skeptic Pete said:

Did you know Dr Karl has a facial recognition mental problem?

Didn’t know about the facial recognition bit.

unknown

I’ve met him

he’s a fairly tall and relatively well built bloke, his wrists are fairly wide – you wouldn’t want to mess with him. his real background from what I saw was of an agricultural background of eastern Europe.

Don’t muck around Wookie, he’s a peasant, can lift heavy things.