The sugar might be the safest ingredient in Coke.
What If You Only Drank Coca-Cola?
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Treacle
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I remember putting a coin in coca cola and it came out really clean. That told me a lot about the drink. Hope to keep some of the enamel on my teeth 
Knight
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Kind of confusing. Was Coca Cola invented for use with rum or was rum invented for use with Coca Cola. Either way it's a great combination with not a drop wasted.
My 1st rum & coke was when was 19 & stationed in Puerto Rico. For $2.50 you could get a fifth of rum 6 bottles of coke & a bucket of ice. 61 years later rum & coke is still my favorite mix drink.
My 1st rum & coke was when was 19 & stationed in Puerto Rico. For $2.50 you could get a fifth of rum 6 bottles of coke & a bucket of ice. 61 years later rum & coke is still my favorite mix drink.
MarciKS
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I enjoy mine with Crown Royal.
Gaer
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- New Mexico U.S.A.
Read something years ago that diabetes was caused not by sweets, candy, cake, sweet foods but by soft drinks.
So i stayed away from them and didn't let my children drink them while they were growing up.
Don't know the truth of it but I wasn't taking any chances, because I wasn't about to to give up chocolate.
So i stayed away from them and didn't let my children drink them while they were growing up.
Don't know the truth of it but I wasn't taking any chances, because I wasn't about to to give up chocolate.
RadishRose
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We didn't enjoy a lot of soda pop growing up either, Gaer.
Christmas time was the exception, and aside from a time or two throughout the year, we enjoyed very little soda pop.
I was the same with my own children, and in fact used to water-down apple juice before putting it in a bottle.
If that's not a wake up call I don't know what is.
Kathleenās Place
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I have on pretty good authority that I am not going to live forever (
) so keeping this in mind, I figure that any unhealthy thing that I love...if done in moderation, will only lead to a much happier death for me. Iād hate to be laying there dying, and lamenting that I didnāt drink that darn can of ice cold coke when I had the chance
) so keeping this in mind, I figure that any unhealthy thing that I love...if done in moderation, will only lead to a much happier death for me. Iād hate to be laying there dying, and lamenting that I didnāt drink that darn can of ice cold coke when I had the chance
fmdog44
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Years ago there was a guy maybe in his late 20s that drank 15 Dr. Peppers every day. He parked his truck near the bay door in the shop so he could run out and grab one.
I can't believe his pancreas didn't shut down on him.
MarciKS
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NYT:
Sept. 22, 2015
When I was growing up in the same New Jersey suburbs so expertly described in Todd Solondz movies and Tom Perrotta novels, the usual lunch for me was a sandwich consisting of Wonder Bread spread thick with Land Oā Lakes butter, a wad of Oscar Mayer bologna and a slice of American cheese. The beverage was whole milk, Tang or Coke. A stack of salty Pringles rounded off the meal.
Even if I had known back then that people who eat a lot of processed meat tend to die of heart disease or cancer, and that processed cheese is held together by emulsifiers that may lead to kidney problems, and that white bread has almost zero nutritional value, and that soft drinks are sludge, and that Pringles may not qualify as potato chips, I wouldnāt have cared. I had a lot on my mind, what with school and all the playing, and I had yet to develop the fear of death.
But now that Iām an adult who apparently has nothing better to do than bathe in the light of computer screens 16 hours a day, I have plenty of time to scroll through articles eager to convince me that food is killing me.
Like everyone else, I believe every word in those articles. And when my gaze reaches the fifth paragraph, the one that inevitably quotes the university professor who has conducted the latest fear-inducing study, I nod slightly and tell myself that somehow I knew it all along, that I always had a feeling that this meat, or that vegetable, was quickening my demise. Which is strange because at the same time, I believe that food is keeping me alive. Weāre all going to die. And we all eat food. Therefore, food must be the culprit.
That seems to be the absurd syllogism that lies beneath the surface of many articles in the health, food and science press. By now we can recite the list. Too much red meat may lead to stroke, cancer and heart disease; until this year, chicken sold in supermarkets may have included arsenic; and even small amounts of pork, when undercooked, can give you trichinellosis, which is no picnic.
Fish that live high on the food chain, the especially delicious ones like king mackerel and tuna, may contain mercury, which leaves us with little choice but to order the squishy creatures at the bottom of the sea, like clams, oysters, mussels, cockles, lobsters, crabs and, donāt forget, those tasty periwinkles.
But while some health advocates are gung-ho about the bivalve shellfish, others remind us that they tend to soak up toxins, viruses and bacteria that may afflict people who eat them with three types of shellfish poisoning. The toxins that cause the poisonings, furthermore, āare not destroyed by cooking,ā the Canadian Food Inspection Agency warns. So thereās that.
Fruits and vegetables in general present a dilemma: the ones that are commercially grown may include pesticides linked to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; the organic variety may be no better, according to a Stanford study that found ālittle evidence of health benefitsā for those with an organic diet.
Like those federal agents who brought down Al Capone on a charge of tax evasion, we are not above indicting certain food items for reasons having nothing to do with the health risks they may pose. Almonds, for example, are packed with protein, but if you imagined that you could eat them without compunction, you are not familiar with an article in The Atlantic, āThe Dark Side of Almond Use,ā by Dr. James Hamblin.
He reports that a single almond soaks up 1.1 gallons of water before he goes on to argue, quite persuasively, that anyone who eats this tree nut exacerbates the disastrous ecological conditions brought on by the drought in almond-rich California. Salad eaters are perhaps equally numb to environmental concerns, according to a recent Washington Post article, which makes the case that the lettuce crop takes up too much arable space for the nutrition it delivers. Even water has become a target. Recent articles point out that drinking eight glasses per day, long thought to be a good idea, is a foolās game, and that too much water can kill you.
Such stories stick in the mind because of their inherent irony: The very things that provide us with sustenance, they seem to argue, may be out to get us. I hope you donāt mind the idea of dining on dung beetles, caterpillars and locusts, among other such critters, because thatās what the United Nations recommends in an exhaustive report. We need to get over our aversion to entomophagy, its authors argue, if we are to survive on an overpopulated planet wracked with climate change. Cooks.com, jumping on the bandwagon, offers a recipe for a protein-rich dish, earthworm chow.
Another foodstuff of sorts now considered less of a problem than, say, meat, is dirt. Actual dirt. Until recently, the practice of eating it was classified as pathological. No more. It turns out that geophagia is widespread, relatively harmless and may protect the body from toxins. Health-scare stories, even those that are not overblown, draw their special power from the fact that we go through the days denying our mortality. Each one reminds us anew that thereās no way out.
Unable to avoid this tragic and absurd-seeming condition, we lash out against our fates by finding fresh reasons to make a villain out of the one thing that is doing its part to keep us alive: food. We add salt to the psychic wound when we momentarily trick ourselves into believing that bugs, worms and dirt are the only things fit for human consumption.
Iām not falling for it anymore. Iām going back to bologna and cheese.
Things are bad for us. This isn't going to change. People die every day in many different ways. I'm not gonna give up Coca Cola or coffee or anything else because of some study that may be the exact opposite the following month or year. I'm not going to sit around fretting over what it's going to do to me. I'm gonna eat...drink and live my life. I don't want to live forever so I don't care.
Why Everything Is Bad for You
By Jim WindolfSept. 22, 2015
When I was growing up in the same New Jersey suburbs so expertly described in Todd Solondz movies and Tom Perrotta novels, the usual lunch for me was a sandwich consisting of Wonder Bread spread thick with Land Oā Lakes butter, a wad of Oscar Mayer bologna and a slice of American cheese. The beverage was whole milk, Tang or Coke. A stack of salty Pringles rounded off the meal.
Even if I had known back then that people who eat a lot of processed meat tend to die of heart disease or cancer, and that processed cheese is held together by emulsifiers that may lead to kidney problems, and that white bread has almost zero nutritional value, and that soft drinks are sludge, and that Pringles may not qualify as potato chips, I wouldnāt have cared. I had a lot on my mind, what with school and all the playing, and I had yet to develop the fear of death.
But now that Iām an adult who apparently has nothing better to do than bathe in the light of computer screens 16 hours a day, I have plenty of time to scroll through articles eager to convince me that food is killing me.
Like everyone else, I believe every word in those articles. And when my gaze reaches the fifth paragraph, the one that inevitably quotes the university professor who has conducted the latest fear-inducing study, I nod slightly and tell myself that somehow I knew it all along, that I always had a feeling that this meat, or that vegetable, was quickening my demise. Which is strange because at the same time, I believe that food is keeping me alive. Weāre all going to die. And we all eat food. Therefore, food must be the culprit.
That seems to be the absurd syllogism that lies beneath the surface of many articles in the health, food and science press. By now we can recite the list. Too much red meat may lead to stroke, cancer and heart disease; until this year, chicken sold in supermarkets may have included arsenic; and even small amounts of pork, when undercooked, can give you trichinellosis, which is no picnic.
Fish that live high on the food chain, the especially delicious ones like king mackerel and tuna, may contain mercury, which leaves us with little choice but to order the squishy creatures at the bottom of the sea, like clams, oysters, mussels, cockles, lobsters, crabs and, donāt forget, those tasty periwinkles.
But while some health advocates are gung-ho about the bivalve shellfish, others remind us that they tend to soak up toxins, viruses and bacteria that may afflict people who eat them with three types of shellfish poisoning. The toxins that cause the poisonings, furthermore, āare not destroyed by cooking,ā the Canadian Food Inspection Agency warns. So thereās that.
Fruits and vegetables in general present a dilemma: the ones that are commercially grown may include pesticides linked to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; the organic variety may be no better, according to a Stanford study that found ālittle evidence of health benefitsā for those with an organic diet.
Like those federal agents who brought down Al Capone on a charge of tax evasion, we are not above indicting certain food items for reasons having nothing to do with the health risks they may pose. Almonds, for example, are packed with protein, but if you imagined that you could eat them without compunction, you are not familiar with an article in The Atlantic, āThe Dark Side of Almond Use,ā by Dr. James Hamblin.
He reports that a single almond soaks up 1.1 gallons of water before he goes on to argue, quite persuasively, that anyone who eats this tree nut exacerbates the disastrous ecological conditions brought on by the drought in almond-rich California. Salad eaters are perhaps equally numb to environmental concerns, according to a recent Washington Post article, which makes the case that the lettuce crop takes up too much arable space for the nutrition it delivers. Even water has become a target. Recent articles point out that drinking eight glasses per day, long thought to be a good idea, is a foolās game, and that too much water can kill you.
Such stories stick in the mind because of their inherent irony: The very things that provide us with sustenance, they seem to argue, may be out to get us. I hope you donāt mind the idea of dining on dung beetles, caterpillars and locusts, among other such critters, because thatās what the United Nations recommends in an exhaustive report. We need to get over our aversion to entomophagy, its authors argue, if we are to survive on an overpopulated planet wracked with climate change. Cooks.com, jumping on the bandwagon, offers a recipe for a protein-rich dish, earthworm chow.
Another foodstuff of sorts now considered less of a problem than, say, meat, is dirt. Actual dirt. Until recently, the practice of eating it was classified as pathological. No more. It turns out that geophagia is widespread, relatively harmless and may protect the body from toxins. Health-scare stories, even those that are not overblown, draw their special power from the fact that we go through the days denying our mortality. Each one reminds us anew that thereās no way out.
Unable to avoid this tragic and absurd-seeming condition, we lash out against our fates by finding fresh reasons to make a villain out of the one thing that is doing its part to keep us alive: food. We add salt to the psychic wound when we momentarily trick ourselves into believing that bugs, worms and dirt are the only things fit for human consumption.
Iām not falling for it anymore. Iām going back to bologna and cheese.
Things are bad for us. This isn't going to change. People die every day in many different ways. I'm not gonna give up Coca Cola or coffee or anything else because of some study that may be the exact opposite the following month or year. I'm not going to sit around fretting over what it's going to do to me. I'm gonna eat...drink and live my life. I don't want to live forever so I don't care.
I remember using it to clean copper pennies.
Lewkat
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- New Jersey, USA
Coca Cola and I have been intimate friends since I was a teenager and now at the very soon to be age of 88, I just opened a mini can to have before dinner. I drink milk with dinner.
Nathan
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- High Desert- Calif.
Many cola drinks have phosphoric acid added, to give the drink a little "bite". Phosphoric acid is used in cleaning products, I used to use it to remove water mineral buildup from ice machines and other refrigeration equipment.
Mr. Ed
Be what you is not what you what you aināt
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- Central NY
The original recipe?
Gardenlover
The world needs more love
As I was drinking a coke, my dad would say something like, "Do you know that stuff removes rust from nails?" I'd smile and reply, "Did you know water puts the rust on the nails?"
hellomimi
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- City of Angels
Gosh! I love, love regular Coke since elementary but since I turned golden, I stayed away from all softdrinks and water has been my main beverage. I drink Stella Rosa black sweet wine when I can, especially with my godmother. By the way, she's getting married at 80...
RadishRose
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- Connecticut, USA
I love this article. Clicking on other articles within, I learned one really can get sick by drinking too much water, and my concern about shellfish and bivalves bear looking into more closely.
C'est Moi
Dishin' it out.
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- Houston Y'all
Agree. I buy those little 7.5 oz Cokes and also Sprite. I don't have one every day, but I have one whenever I please. (I also like red meat and white bread, gasp.)
Knight
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Knight
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Or. Someone adapts this to a bubbly coca cola enema.
Coffee Enema Instructions - Learn the Gerson Therapy
Stimulate the liver to detox your blood and decrease the toxic load on your liver. Perhaps the most infamous component of the Gerson Therapy is the coffee enema.
1st. ewwwwwww thought for 2021.
rgp
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- Milford,OH
Some people it seems, sure luv to tell other people how to live. And of course their way is the only way.........jmo