Woman's 2 gallon a day Coke consumption cited in death

[bigrash]

2 gallons a day??

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/woman-coca-cola-habit-cited-death-161323721.html

 

[Joseph F]

I was thinking of posting this.

 

[sdifox]

moron is as moron does

 

[Insomniator]

Omg ban coke!

 

[waggy]

meh she was a idiot.

ncluding smoking a reported 30 cigarettes per day and having poor eating habits


seems like she was not very bright. 2-2.5 gallons of coke and all those cigs? wow

 

[Printer Bandit]

ban dihydrogen monoxide, the key ingredient in coke.

 

[darkxshade]

how much caffeine is in 2 gallons of coke?

 

[Beev]

Based on that article it wasn't the Coke. She drank way too much, sure, but she was just in poor health all around.

 

[thecrecarc]

"it was also revealed that Harris made other questionable health choices before her death, including smoking a reported 30 cigarettes per day and having poor eating habits."


This is a non-story.

 

[preCRT]

She also drank all of that coke & smoked 30 cigarettes a day while popping out 8 kids by 30.

 

[QueBert]

has Coke ever even been cited in a death before? I know a few people who have been pounding a case of Mt Dew a day for decades now. I know it's very unhealthy, but I've never seen a death where the doctor cited the amount of soda the person drank as a reason. The doctor in the story also cited "toxic levels of caffeine" it would take much more to reach toxic levels than how much is in 2 gallons of Coke. That's what? about 750mg or so, the pre workout I just took has about 300mg a scoop (took 2 scoops) and I downed that in about 10 seconds. Not spread out over an entire day like she did.

 

[Gibsons]

She also drank all of that coke & smoked 30 cigarettes a day while popping out 8 kids by 30.

I wonder what those kids look like?

 

[Pantlegz]

ban dihydrogen monoxide, the key ingredient in coke.

I second this motion, that stuff is pure evil! :twisted:

 

[Capt Caveman]

From the article, the coke was the least of her issues.

Oh, New Zealand, what a shithole.

 

[xBiffx]

 

[manimal]

She went all tony montana on the diet. Wonder if the regular one would have been better.

 

[Anonemous]

4x2L bottles of Coke...

 

[drebo]

has Coke ever even been cited in a death before? I know a few people who have been pounding a case of Mt Dew a day for decades now. I know it's very unhealthy, but I've never seen a death where the doctor cited the amount of soda the person drank as a reason. The doctor in the story also cited "toxic levels of caffeine" it would take much more to reach toxic levels than how much is in 2 gallons of Coke. That's what? about 750mg or so, the pre workout I just took has about 300mg a scoop (took 2 scoops) and I downed that in about 10 seconds. Not spread out over an entire day like she did.

There's lots of salt in soda. I could see excessive amounts of soda being a contributor to hardening arteries.

By itself, she probably would have been fine. But, when you add 30 cigarettes per day and general bad diet/excercise, yeah it probably was a "factor".

 

[xBiffx]

ban dihydrogen monoxide, the key ingredient in coke.

http://www.dhmo.org/

Lots of info. Dangerous stuff.

 

[Pantlegz]

There's lots of salt in soda. I could see excessive amounts of soda being a contributor to hardening arteries.

Not really, ~50mg per 8oz can. Low sodium diets are like 2000mg daily.

 

[blankslate]

http://www.dhmo.org/

Lots of info. Dangerous stuff.

We should get the EPA on this and ban it

 

[Modelworks]

She drank at least 20 cans each day and smoked 30 cigarettes a day. That is enough to kill anyone .

 

[Paul98]

ban dihydrogen monoxide, the key ingredient in coke.

LOL good one

 

[pelov]

There's lots of salt in soda. I could see excessive amounts of soda being a contributor to hardening arteries.

Not salt. They use Phosphoric acid because it still provides that slightly sour/salty taste and it works as a preservative/anti-microbial.

I've got a coke can in my hand now. It's not unhealthy if you're burning off the calories. Hell, Usain Bolt stuffs his face full of McDonald's before races and Swimmer's eat tons of crap.

The woman died of self-neglect.

 

[drebo]

Not really, ~50mg per 8oz can. Low sodium diets are like 2000mg daily.

I've got a can of Sun Drop right here (basically Seven Up's version of Mt. Dew) and it's got 130mg sodium in 12 oz. There's 128 ounces in a gallon...so 256 ounces in two gallons. That's just over 21 cans of soda in two gallons...

That's almost 3 grams of sodium. Just from the soda.

Assuming she eats other normal stuff like pasta or rice, that could be a pile more sodium.

Plus smoking.

That's a lot of pain for your arteries.