Water Or Coke

[Justinsmom829]

Water or Coke

This! is really an eye opener.... Water or Coke?
We all know that water is important but I've never
seen
it written down like this before.

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 fuzz 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 cl! 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 a 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 4
> > days.
> > 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 Share It With Others

 

[fletcher]

I stick with the water, back in my coke days a few years of it had a problem with short term recall, But on the + side the little engine that could would run all night like amtrack

 

[dunclock]

The difference it makes in your weight is also drastic. Check out the calorie content for a coke. Water has ZERO. I switched from Mountain Dew about three years to water and went from 205 to 185.

Another neat trick with Coke, if you have copper berillium irons for your golf clubs like I have, you can soak them overnight in a bucket with 2 litre Coke and the next morning they come out looking like GOLD.

Just think what this is doing to your insides :nono:

 

[PaTsJaMM]

1. The active ingredient in Coke is phosphoric acid.
> > Its pH is 2.8. It will dissolve a nail in about 4
> > days.



Then why doesn't it dissolve the can its kept in on the store shelves?:shrug:

 

[Justinsmom829]

Good one! I have no idea. I was just passing some info along.

Miss Missy

 

[Valuist]

I switched to Diet Coke a number of years ago. At least I can still get my recommended daily requirement of phosphoric acid, plus since its 95% water, get all the non-dehydration benefits. Who needs fiber if the phosphoric acid can just burn everything away?

 

[Rudy]

This is so bogus. Whoever wrote this has an anti-Coke agenda and has thrown out many assertions that have no basis in fact. I am not a Coke (or any soda) drinker, and in fact am an ice-water freak. The calories alone are reason enough for avoiding sugared drinks. I'm constantly telling my kids of the value of drinking mass quantities of water rather than soda, and wholeheartedly concur with the fact that many people are chronically dehydrated, especially in dryer climes.

But the author is using sophistry to place these other knocks on Coke. There is so little acid in Coke that it is almost negigible. And the acid already in the stomach is so much more powerful than anything you might drink. That's how we digest our food.

Any of the cleaning properties of Coke would be much more efficiently accompished with just plain soda water, which has carbonic acid as a result of the carbonation process. Another good homemade cleaner is Alka-Seltzer, which is mostly citric acid, and without the sugar.

I wonder how many gullible knuckleheads are pouring Coke into their toilets after seeing this hoax. Do they think the sugar is a better disinfectant that real chemicals?

Here's a link to a thorough debunking of such Coke claims:

http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/acid.asp

This is SO silly that I'm shocked so many otherwise sensible people are blindly uncritical of these claims -- proving how easy it is for any of us to get cheated easily about anything that sounds mildly logical.

 

[Justinsmom829]

Thanks Rudy!

 

[Stuman]

Just think what this is doing to your insides :nono:

The acid in Cokes is peanuts compared to stomach acid.:nono: Stomach acid will eat through a counter top.

Stuman

 

[Nosigar]

I will say one thing, anybody drinking diet coke or anything with sweetener Nutraweet / Equal, better be careful. That chit is hazardous to your health. can give you MS type symptoms if you drink it for a long time. Trust me.

 

[Rudy]

Oh, horsehockey, nosigar. Another hoax. Why spread scary BS when you have NO evidence to support it? Frigging Aspartame (the generic name for Equal, et al) has HUGE documentation and hundreds of studies supporting its safety and no credible medical evidence by the kook patrol.

Snopes.com to the rescue again:

http://www.snopes.com/toxins/aspartam.htm

 

[fletcher]

My coke was a different color:shrug: Maybe that was the recall problem

 

[bubbas1]

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


You will never see a placard on the side of a coke truck.

They have a govt waiver so one is not needed. It would have been bad advertising if they had to have one.

 

[Nosigar]

Rude boy, I don't know if the Nutrasweet fame is urban legend or not. I am just speaking from personal experience. Also from several people I know who have suffered similar experiences. Extremely frequent urination, convulsions, dehydration, nausea, dizziness, the shakes, difficulty concentrating... all this after many, many years of drinking the diet stuff. I always seemed to have a wierd taste in my mouth similar to hospital antiseptic. i quit the Diet Coke one day and two days later the symptoms began to subside.

A couple of months later I picked the stuff up again mostly since I was travelling frequently and coke was the easiest to get. I kept it up for a few weeks and the shitty symptoms returned. Got off the stuff and they started to go away. Not exactly what I would call a controlled experiment but it worked for me. Trust me, i kept all my other many vices and the symptoms still went away.

Formaldehyde, one of the principal components that nutrasweet breaks down to, is quite hazardous to the body. I won't say that this affects everybody the same way because we all have different metabolic responses to certain substances. In the same way that people are different, some are ignorant and devoid of manners and respect for others opinion, while others will give poeple the benefit of the doubt and issue judgement on their own based on personal and proper investigation. Some gut feeling doesn't hurt either.

I just put that out there for people to decide on their own. It could help somebody just as it helped me. It mad a big difference.

I'm not alarmist or anything close to that, but what ills you may be indifferent to others. And neither doctors, chemists or anybody else knows why or how. As an engineer I have worked in the bio-chemical area some years ago and one thing is sure and that is that nobody knows how any certain chemical will react within a human body or what effect it will have, with any precision. There are too many variables and these are constantly changing also. It's impossible to obtain an objective equation measure the boundaries that reflect a sub-set within which all these different reactions occur. Therefore, what does not affect you now could (and couldn't) do so later.

So bottom line, you maybe allergic to ragweed and i can say that that's BS and you're a pussy because I'm not allergic. But it still doesn't change the fact that you're allergic.

And don't believe everything you read. But believe more the things that you read that you don't agree with 'cause that's the best way to learn things.

 

[Rudy]

Nosigar, there is NOTHING in the medical literature ascribing the extreme symptoms you describe to aspartame. As for the formaldehyde, trace amounts are broken down in aspartame, as well as dozens of other things that we eat, including alcohol. You'd have to be pumping a whole lot of it through your system to have any noticable effects. That might explain the extremely frequent urination.

I can understand somebody not liking the taste (I know such people myself) or thinking they're having some reaction, when in fact it is more likely attributable to caffeine or their diet generally. What I'm reacting to is the ascribing of these symptoms specifically to the sweetener when it isn't the cause.

I agree we must have minds open to learning, but we also must make judgments as to the validity of that information. That's what science is for, and in this case the scientific evidence is pretty compelling. But to believe something just because the kook patrol is on the case is the height of gullibility. And I found it irresponsible for you to make such a blanket statement that it is hazardous to your health. Few substances have had more scientific study.

 

[usbbroker]

NIce one fletcher!!
you set that one up with your first reply.....I was waiting for that second one