{"id":9478,"date":"2020-09-21T16:49:25","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T20:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?p=9478"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:51:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:51:47","slug":"carleton-researchers-study-on-diet-coke-and-the-effects-on-fish-gets-published-with-the-ottawa-citizen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/2020\/carleton-researchers-study-on-diet-coke-and-the-effects-on-fish-gets-published-with-the-ottawa-citizen\/","title":{"rendered":"Carleton Researchers Study on Diet Coke and the Effects on Fish gets Published with the Ottawa Citizen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Carleton Researchers Study on Diet Coke and the Effects on Fish gets Published with the Ottawa Citizen\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Carleton University researchers have put to rest a popular fish story: that pouring Diet Coke or other carbonated beverages on a fish\u2019s injured gills can stem the bleeding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Researchers from biology professor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fecpl.ca\/\">Steven Cooke\u2019s lab<\/a> conducted the first scientific study of what has, in recent years, become a controversial tenet of fish first aid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Advocates of the practice contend the carbon dioxide in soda can constrict a fish\u2019s blood vessels and halt its bleeding; critics have called it dangerous pop science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/news\/local-news\/carleton-study-suggests-diet-coke-doesnt-go-with-fish\">Read full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carleton University researchers have put to rest a popular fish story: that pouring Diet Coke or other carbonated beverages on a fish\u2019s injured gills can stem the bleeding. Researchers from biology professor Steven Cooke\u2019s lab conducted the first scientific study of what has, in recent years, become a controversial tenet of fish first aid. Advocates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grad-student-news","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"article-print"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9478"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9481,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9478\/revisions\/9481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}