When at a buffet, does drinking water and or soda increase or decrease the amount of...

[love]

...food you can digest? In other words, are you able to eat more by drinking water/soda or less? And why?

I've heard that soda increases the acidity in your stomach and thus speeds up digestion but I've also heard that it somehow slows things down and takes up space that would otherwise be taken up by food. What's the truth?

 

[Dave C]

I'm with Jerry on this one...

Drinking water just takes up room that could be used for food.

 

[Mandeep A]

water is really important to yyur diet

 

[Jerry]

Water/Soda takes up room in your stomach, and therefore room that you could normally fill with buffet num-nums.