coke or water

[HoRsELUvR]

My friend emailed this to me and i thought it was kind of interesting.figured id share it.




>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 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 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?

[popcornbird]

I'm drinking water right now! I used to drink very little water, but now 10 12oz glasses is the minimum!

As for coke...........I'd rather throw up.

[carole]

I am a big water drinker, strongly believing its good for me, but who really knows, having said that I polished off two glasses of diet vanilla coke last night, and did I enjoy it YOU BET, its very addictive to me, but I have it as a treat only, mostly I stick with water

After reading that article, and some of it I already knew, I wonder what on earth that coke is doing to me now?????

[slleipnir]

I'd prefer water to coke anyway lol

[Fuzzy317]

I must be alone, I like coke better than water. If I am working outside, I may drink water then, but the rest of the time its coke for me (or Chick-fil-a lemonage...yum)

[Karen]

Lots of perfectly nice things we drink are mildly acidic - orange juice, anything with vitamin C - that's citric acid - doesn't that sound lots more sinister? Bet the ants of the highways are happy when Coke is used to clean up oil stains ... and the carbonation has to account for some of the corrosive stuff, too, doesn't it?

I, for one, drink Fruit 2-O - a lot of it, every day. I am well hydrated.

[catland]

I might have to try that thing with cleaning the toilet

I prefer water or diet-Pepsi.

[Kfamr]

Originally posted by Fuzzy317
(or Chick-fil-a lemonage...yum)

Mmmm! the best lemonade!
My mom used to make it EVERYday when she first started out at Chick-fil-A ... I'm not sure if she does now, she mostly makes the Cool Wraps, i think.

[tikeyas_mom]

yuk coke is sick, pepsi all the way

[Tonya]

That is good information. Thank you.

[CathyBogart]

Since I started taking my "new" birth control pills (About a year ago) anything caffeinated has made me very ill. Yes, this includes chocolate except for very small amounts. I have felt SO much better since I cut most sodas out of my diet. I was originally going to switch pills so that this didn't happen, but now I don't mind.

I did enjoy a caffeine free diet coke today, but that's the exception rather than the rule.

[Logan]

I like my Diet Coke in the morning. I drink water the rest of the day. As for those "Coke" facts, I had seen them before and had also seen that they are not true at www.snopes.com .

Here's what they say:
Claim: The acids in Coca-Cola not only make it a handy household cleaning product, but harmful to drink as well.

Status: False.

Example: [Collected on the Internet, 2001]


1. In many states 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 . . . Let the "real thing" sit for one hour, then flush clean.

4. The citric acid in Coke removes stains from vitreous china.

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

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

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

8. To bake a moist ham: Empty a can of Coca-Cola into the baking pan;rap 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.

9. 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. It will also clean road haze fromyour windshield.

FYI:

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

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! Drink up! No joke. Think what coke and other soft drinks do to your teeth on a daily basis. A tooth will dissolve in a cup of coke in 24-48 hours


Origins: Many
of the entries above are just simple household tips involving Coca-Cola. 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 doesn't necessarily make them dangerous. The fact is that 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 such 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, in a word, stupid. Coca-Cola does contain small amounts of citric acid (from the orange, lemon, and lime oils in its formula) 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 cause harm. The only people who proffer the ridiculous statements that Coca-Cola will dissolve a steak, a tooth, or a nail in a day or two are people who have never actually tried any of these things, because they just don't happen. (Anyone who conducts these experiments will find himself at the end of two days with a whole tooth, a whole nail, and one very soggy t-bone.)

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

Last updated: 20 November 2001

[popcornbird]

Originally posted by Logan

Claim: The acids in Coca-Cola not only make it a handy household cleaning product, but harmful to drink as well.

Status: False.

But Logan! I tried this in our toilet, and you wouldn't believe how sparkling it was when I flushed it! Really, I don't think that's false.

[CathyBogart]

LoL, Thanks for checking that at snopes, I didn't even think to look!

[Kfamr]

Real or fake, Coke and Pepsi are disgusting.

I still chose water ANYDAY!