Water or Coke?

anonymous

New member
Hi Folks,

I received this note recently and thought I'd pass it on. It's a real
eye opener...Water or Coke? For many years I've been telling people the
importance of clean, restructured, electron charged alkalizing water
but I've never seen it written down quite like this before. It doesn't
delve deeply into the benefits of water but it does highlight part of
dark side of what most of us are substituting for healthy water. Those
substitutes are, of course, Soft Drinks. Remember, wherever it says coke
it is actually talking about all colas as well as most other soft
drinks. Also keep in mind that this doesn't explore other very serious
health issues that arise with the over consumption of soft drinks like the
effects of sugar on our wellbeing.

WATER OR COKE?

WATER

1. 75% of Americans are chronically dehydrated.

2. In 37% of Americans, the thirst mechanism is so weak that it is
often mistaken for hunger.

3. Even MILD dehydration will slow down one's metabolism as much as 3%.

4. One glass of water will shut down midnight hunger pangs for almost
100% of the dieters studied in a University of Washington study.

5. Lack of water, the #1 trigger of daytime fatigue.

6. Preliminary research indicates that 8-10 glasses of water a day
could significantly ease back and joint pain for up to 80% of sufferers.

7. A mere 2% drop in body water can trigger fuzzy short-term memory,
trouble with basic math, and difficulty focusing on the computer screen
or on a printed page.

8. Drinking 5 glasses of water daily decreases the risk of colon cancer
by 45%, plus it can slash the risk of breast cancer by 79%, and one is
50% less likely to develop bladder cancer.

And now for the properties of COKE:

1. In many states (in the USA) the highway patrol carries two gallons
of coke in the truck to remove blood from the highway after a car
accident.

2. You can put a T-bone steak in a bowl of coke and it will be gone in
two days.

3. To clean a toilet: Pour a can of Coca-Cola into the toilet bowl and
let the "real thing" sit for one hour, then flush clean. The citric
acid in Coke removes stains from vitreous China.

4. To remove rust spots from chrome car bumpers: Rub the bumper with a
rumpled-up piece of Reynolds Wrap aluminum foil dipped in Coca-Cola.

5. To clean corrosion from car battery terminals: Pour a can of
Coca-Cola over the terminals to bubble away the corrosion.

6. To loosen a rusted bolt: Applying a cloth soaked in Coca-Cola to the
rusted bolt for several minutes.

7. To bake a moist ham: Empty a can of Coca-Cola into the baking pan,
wrap the ham in aluminum foil, and bake. Thirty minutes before the ham
is finished, remove the foil, allowing the drippings to mix with the
Coke for sumptuous brown gravy.

8. To remove grease from clothes: Empty a can of coke into a load of
greasy clothes, add detergent, and run through a regular cycle. The
Coca-Cola will help loosen grease stains.

9. It will also clean road haze from your windshield.

For Your Info:

1 The active ingredient in Coke is phosphoric acid. Its pH is 2.8. It
will dissolve a nail in about 4days. Phosphoric acid also leaches
calcium from bones and is a major contributor to the rising increase in
osteoporosis.

2. To carry Coca-Cola syrup (the concentrate) the commercial truck must
use the Hazardous material place cards reserved for highly corrosive
materials.

3. The distributors of coke have been using it to clean the engines of
their trucks for about 20 years!

Now the question is; would you like a coke or a glass of water?


Have a Great Day and be sure to Share It with Others.
 
I

IG

Guest
copied from snopes.com

I don't know of anyone who hasn't heard the rumor that too much Coca-Cola rots your innards, and the proof of this can be determined by dropping a baby tooth into a glass of it, then going back the next morning to find most of it eaten away. If Coca-Cola can dissolve a tooth overnight, imagine what it must be doing to your teeth, not to mention your stomach and digestive tract!

All such claims ignore a few salient points:

* Coca-Cola will not dissolve a tooth (or a nail, or a penny, or a piece of meat) overnight.


* Coca-Cola contains acids (such as citric acid and phosphoric acid) which will eventually dissolve items such as teeth (given enough time), but so do plenty of other substances we commonly ingest (such as orange juice). The concentration of acid in these products is so low that our digestive systems are easily capable of coping with it with no harm to us.

* The idea that any substance which can dissolve teeth must therefore damage our teeth if we drink it is nonsensical. We don't hold drinks in our mouths for days at a time - any liquids we drink simply wash over our teeth very briefly, and our teeth are further protected by their enamel coating and the ameliorating effects of saliva.

Vince Staten describes the legendary version of this tale:

Perhaps you've heard the story. It goes something like this: At Harvard they left a fly in a Coke overnight and the next morning, the fly had been completely dissolved. The name of the university changes and so does the item to be soaked overnight, but the result is always the same: Coke eats it. The lesson is that if it does that to a fly, just think of what it does to your stomach.

To test this theory I swatted two flies: a test fly and a control fly. I put the test fly in a cup of Coke and let it soak for twenty-four hours. I put the control fly in a cup of Roto-Rooter drain cleaner and let it soak an equal length of time.

When I returned to the Coke fly the next day, I discovered, to my surprise, the fly floating around, unscathed. The Roto-Rooter fly, on the other hand, was dissolved down to a couple of tiny fly bits. The Roto-Rooter had also eaten through the bottom of the plastic cup.

Frederick Allen discusses the origins of this rumor in his book on Coca-Cola:

In the fall of 1950, a Cornell University professor named Clive M. McCay testified before a select committee in the U.S. House of Representatives that the sugar in Coke caused cavities. And, he said, the phosphoric acid was a dangerous additive. Giving a vivid account that instantly became part of the national folklore, Dr. McCay described how a tooth left in a glass of Coca-Cola would soften and begin to dissolve in a period of two days.

Coca-Cola's top chemist, Orville May, explained to Hobbs [then president of Coca-Cola] and the company's other executives that anything containing sugar and phosphoric acid - fresh orange juice, for example - would dissolve teeth over a period of time. The point was people did not hold food and beverages in their mouths for days on end. They swallowed, and their saliva washed away the sugar and acid before lasting damage was done. Otherwise the whole country would be toothless.

Mark Pendergrast tackles the same subject:

McCay made headlines with his allegations that Coke would eat away the marble steps of the Capitol Building and soften teeth placed in a glass of the beverage. "The molar teeth of rats were dissolved down to the gum line," McCay told the politicians, when "given nothing to drink except cola beverages for a period of six months."

In response, Coca-Cola's head chemist, Orville May, testified that McCay offered a "distorted picture" intended to frighten unsuspecting consumers. May pointed out that the .055 percent level of phosphoric acid was far below the 1.09 percent acid content of an orange and that McCay's studies ignored the neutralizing effect of saliva. Finally, he noted that orange juice or lemonade would also dissolve ten-penny nails and eat holes in the Capitol steps.

We have to agree with Vince Staten's conclusion:

I think there are two lessons here: Don't believe all those Coke stories you hear. And don't, for any reason, let a fly drink Roto-Rooter.
 
I

IG

Guest
Finding the exact response to those is this though..
copied once again from snopes.com
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">http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/tooth.asp
</a><a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/acid.asp
">http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/acid.asp
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Many of the entries above are just simple household tips involving Coca-Cola, as provided by Joey Green in his 1995 book Polish Your Furniture with Panty Hose and on his web site. That you can cook and clean with Coke is relatively meaningless from a safety standpoint - you can use a wide array of common household substances (including water) for the same purposes; that fact alone doesn't necessarily make them dangerous to ingest. Nearly all carbonated soft drinks contain carbonic acid, which is moderately useful for tasks such as removing stains and dissolving rust deposits (although plain soda water is much better for some of these purposes than Coca-Cola or other soft drinks, as it doesn't leave a sticky sugar residue behind). Carbonic acid is relatively weak, however, and people have been drinking carbonated water for many years with no detrimental effects.

The rest of the claims offered here are specious. Coca-Cola does contain small amounts of citric acid and phosphoric acid; however, all the insinuations about the dangers these acids might pose to people who drink Coca-Cola ignore a simple concept familiar to any first-year chemistry student: concentration. Coca-Cola contains less citric acid than orange juice does, and the concentration of phosphoric acid in Coke is far too small (a mere 11 to 13 grams per gallon of syrup, or about 0.20 to 0.30 per cent of the total formula) to dissolve a steak, a tooth, or a nail overnight. (Much of the item will dissolve eventually, but after a day or two you'll still have most of the tooth, a whole nail, and one very soggy t-bone.)

Besides, the gastric acid in your stomach is much stronger than any of the acids in Coca-Cola, so the Coca-Cola is harmless.

The next time you're stopped by a highway patrolman, try asking him if he's ever scrubbed blood stains off a highway with Coca-Cola (or anything else). If you're lucky, by the time he stops laughing he'll have forgotten about the citation he was going to give you.
 
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IG

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For additional reading.
<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola#Urban_legends_and_unusual_uses
">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...ends_and_unusual_uses
</a>
take everything you find on the internet with a grain of salt.
We're CFers after all, and we need it!
But seriously while I'm not saying that coke is AOK all the time, esp. not for little kids, it's not the horror story that most of those emails like that make it out to be.
 
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luke

Guest
Good thing I drink Pepsi! This Coke seems to be bad for you....
 

Mockingbird

New member
Well, I know one of the claims that is true, using coke to bake a ham is delicious (Dr. Pepper is the best). That... doesn't really make coke a bad thing though, so I'm not sure why it's in there...
 

anonymous

New member
Do they think pop is totally bad for CFers? My son (9) just loves pop. I have to keep strawberry water on hand so he'll go for that instead. I guess I worry about his teeth too.

Mother of 9 yr old boy wcf
 
I

IG

Guest
No it's not. Caffeine though is a weak diuretic so don't just let him drink all sodas. Also, do not brush immediately after drinking soda I've heard that's more detrimental to tooth health than actually drinking sodas is as it breaks down the outer layer of the tooth.
 

EnergyGal

New member
I drank lots of coke when I was little and had too many cavities. I stopped when I heard about the rust story then I also burped alot and did not like that so that made me stop drinking coke. Once you stop drinking coke for a long time when you drink it again it taste yucky.

Thankfully, I did not get diabetes when I was young but if a cf patient is borderline diabetic drinking coke is not wise in IMHO
 

anonymous

New member
If any of you watch MythBusters on the Discover channel, they did a show on this.

I like the fact that if I don't finish a can, I can recyle it to clean the house! <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">

Just kidding, although I do use it when cooking roast - yum!!

Basically, yes water is better. If you must drink your coke (or pepsi, or whatever) it is better to drink it with a meal so the sugars breakdown with your food.

For the ladies - caffine can cause fibroids (lumps) in your boobs.

Interesting topic <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">

--Wallflower
 

anonymous

New member
Brushing your teeth after drinking soda is not bad for your teeth - it just may give you a false sense that your teeth are clean.

The acid in soda (and other drinks like orange juice - or even just eating an orange for that matter) is not neutralized with toothpaste and water. Your saliva does a better job breaking down the acid, that's why it's better to wait before brushing right away - so your saliva has a chance to break it down first. Chewing gum helps too, as it increases saliva production in your mouth.

--Wallflower
 
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