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In this undated photograph, Natasha Harris, 30, is seen. Harris, stay-at-home mother of eight from Invercargill, died of a heart attack in February 2010. Experts say the New Zealand woman's 2-gallon-a-day Coca-Cola habit probably contributed to her death, a conclusion that led the soft-drink giant to note that even water can be deadly in excessive amounts. (AP Photo/New Zealand Herald) NEW ZEALAND OUT, AUSTRALIA OUT, EDITORIAL USE ONLY
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Experts say a New Zealand woman's 2-gallon-a-day Coca-Cola habit probably contributed to her death, a conclusion that led the soft-drink giant to note that even water can be deadly in excessive amounts.
Natasha Harris, a 30-year-old, stay-at-home mother of eight from Invercargill, died of a heart attack in February 2010. Fairfax Media reported that a pathologist, Dr. Dan Mornin, testified at an inquest Thursday that she probably suffered from hypokalemia, or low potassium, which he thinks was caused by her excessive consumption of Coke and overall poor nutrition.
Symptoms of hypokalemia can include abnormal heart rhythms, according to the U.S. National Institutes of Health.
Mornin said that toxic levels of caffeine, a stimulant found in Coke, also may have contributed to her death, according to Fairfax.
Harris' partner, Chris Hodgkinson, testified that Harris drank between 8 and 10 liters (2.1 and 2.6 gallons) of regular Coke every day.
"The first thing she would do in the morning was to have a drink of Coke beside her bed and the last thing she would do at night was have a drink of Coke," Hodgkinson said in a deposition. "She was addicted to Coke."
Hodgkinson also said Harris ate little and smoked about 30 cigarettes a day. In the months before her death, he said, Harris experienced blood pressure problems and lacked energy.
He said that on the morning of her death, Harris helped get her children ready for school before slumping against a wall. He called emergency services and tried mouth-to-mouth resuscitation but couldn't revive her.
Another pathologist, Dr. Martin Sage, said in a deposition that "it is certainly well demonstrated that excessive long or short term cola ingestion can be dramatically symptomatic, and there are strong hypothetical grounds for this becoming fatal in individual cases."
Inquests such as this are sometimes held for unusual or unexplained deaths in New Zealand, and can help shape future health policies. With the evidence in the case now complete, the coroner's office will compile and issue a final report into the death.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Lisa Te Morenga, a nutritionist at the University of Otago, said excessive consumption of any type of liquid in a cool climate would be likely to play havoc with the body's natural systems and balance.
Karen Thompson, a spokeswoman for Coca-Cola Oceania, said in a statement that its products are safe.
"We concur with the information shared by the coroner's office that the grossly excessive ingestion of any food product, including water, over a short period of time with the inadequate consumption of essential nutrients, and the failure to seek appropriate medical intervention when needed, can be dramatically symptomatic."[/quote]
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between 8 and 10 liters (2.1 and 2.6 gallons) of regular Coke every day.
I don't drink anything that much in a day!
The problem here is not the fact that it was coke. But the fact that she drank 2 gallons a day. Although no doubt people are going to use this to try to gain leverage against soda.
Two gallons a day? Yeah that'd do it. Watch the idiots spin this into saying the slightest drop is a killer though.
This just in: Consuming anything in massive and unintended amounts can be damaging to your health.
I'm drinking a Mexican Coke right now. They're selling large cases of it at Costco.
It was the combination of caffeine and sugar highs associated with cola and soda that caused high stress levels in the heart and body that really killed her, don't go blaming coca-cola over this.
1. Drink some fucking water
2. If she had lived, hello kidney stones the size of a fist!
[QUOTE=zombini;35667592]It was the combination of caffeine and sugar highs associated with cola and soda that caused high stress levels in the heart and body that really killed her, don't go blaming coca-cola over this.[/QUOTE]
"It was the gun's bullet projectile being launched down the barrel by the explosive pressure that killed him, don't go blaming the man holding the gun over this!"
that's pretty much your logic. Coca-cola is to blame. Also, High Fructose Corn Syrup is addictive as fuck. ([url]http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21623683[/url])
The women became addicted to coca-cola because the pleasure caused by satisfying her high fructose corn syrup addiction was associated with the taste and feel of coca-cola, similar to how nicotine addicts prefer one brand of cigarettes.
Coca-cola has plenty of dangerous ingredients, such as aspartamine (a Monsanto-manufactured carcinogenic toxin) not to mention the dangerous levels of sugar.
I'm pretty sure too much intake of ANYTHING can be deadly, it just takes time. If I recall correctly, the same goes for weed BUT it's only a seriously ludicrous amount. The human body can only take so much.
"There is no such thing as poison, only the amount makes it poison"
(not exact quote)
[QUOTE=Leaf Runner;35667637]"It was the gun's bullet projectile being launched down the barrel by the explosive pressure that killed him, don't go blaming the man holding the gun over this!"
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The woman who died in this story could have prevented it by not drinking so much soda, but if you're getting shot there isn't much that you can do
[QUOTE=Leaf Runner;35667637]"It was the gun's bullet projectile being launched down the barrel by the explosive pressure that killed him, don't go blaming the man holding the gun over this!"
that's pretty much your logic. Coca-cola is to blame. Also, High Fructose Corn Syrup is addictive as fuck. ([url]http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21623683[/url])
The women became addicted to coca-cola because the pleasure caused by satisfying her high fructose corn syrup addiction was associated with the taste and feel of coca-cola, similar to how nicotine addicts prefer one brand of cigarettes.
Coca-cola has plenty of dangerous ingredients, such as aspartamine (a Monsanto-manufactured carcinogenic toxin) not to mention the dangerous levels of sugar.[/QUOTE]
How can Coca-Cola be to blame for blatant over-consumption of their products? My dad works outside in the blistering heat all summer long, and he rarely consumes more than a gallon, to a gallon and a half of fluids, even on the hottest days. A stay at home mom who consumes greater quantities of liquids than a man who sweats all day, everyday, is going to get sick from something like that.
How can you drink that much?
SHIT I WONDER WHY SHE DIED
This is what happens when you drink a single coke:
[QUOTE]In The First 10 minutes: 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. (100% of your recommended daily intake.) You don’t immediately vomit from the overwhelming sweetness because phosphoric acid cuts the flavor allowing you to keep it down.
20 minutes: Your blood sugar spikes, causing an insulin burst. Your liver responds to this by turning any sugar it can get its hands on into fat. (There’s plenty of that at this particular moment)
40 minutes: Caffeine absorption is complete. Your pupils dilate, your blood pressure rises, as a response your livers dumps more sugar into your bloodstream. The adenosine receptors in your brain are now blocked preventing drowsiness.
45 minutes: Your body ups your dopamine production stimulating the pleasure centers of your brain. This is physically the same way heroin works, by the way.
>60 minutes: The phosphoric acid binds calcium, magnesium and zinc in your lower intestine, providing a further boost in metabolism. This is compounded by high doses of sugar and artificial sweeteners also increasing the urinary excretion of calcium.
>60 Minutes: The caffeine’s diuretic properties come into play. (It makes you have to pee.) It is now assured that you’ll evacuate the bonded calcium, magnesium and zinc that was headed to your bones as well as sodium, electrolyte and water.
>60 minutes: As the rave inside of you dies down you’ll start to have a sugar crash. You may become irritable and/or sluggish. You’ve also now, literally, pissed away all the water that was in the Coke. But not before infusing it with valuable nutrients your body could have used for things like even having the ability to hydrate your system or build strong bones and teeth.[/QUOTE]
So this is not surprising.
[QUOTE=Leaf Runner;35667637]"It was the gun's bullet projectile being launched down the barrel by the explosive pressure that killed him, don't go blaming the man holding the gun over this!" that's pretty much your logic. Coca-cola is to blame. Also, High Fructose Corn Syrup is addictive as fuck. ([url]http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21623683[/url]) The women became addicted to coca-cola because the pleasure caused by satisfying her high fructose corn syrup addiction was associated with the taste and feel of coca-cola, similar to how nicotine addicts prefer one brand of cigarettes. Coca-cola has plenty of dangerous ingredients, such as aspartamine (a Monsanto-manufactured carcinogenic toxin) not to mention the dangerous levels of sugar.[/QUOTE]
The difference is that if you shoot someone, they didn't choose to receive the bullet. Whereas drinking soda is entirely up to you and you alone.
[QUOTE= TestECull]Two gallons a day? Yeah that'd do it. Watch the idiots spin this into saying the slightest drop is a killer though.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE= Leaf Runner]"It was the gun's bullet projectile being launched down the barrel by the explosive pressure that killed him, don't go blaming the man holding the gun over this!"
that's pretty much your logic. Coca-cola is to blame. Also, High Fructose Corn Syrup is addictive as fuck. ([url]http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21623683[/url])
The women became addicted to coca-cola because the pleasure caused by satisfying her high fructose corn syrup addiction was associated with the taste and feel of coca-cola, similar to how nicotine addicts prefer one brand of cigarettes.
Coca-cola has plenty of dangerous ingredients, such as aspartamine (a Monsanto-manufactured carcinogenic toxin) not to mention the dangerous levels of sugar.[/QUOTE]
Men, we have a psychic on our hands!
I do about 5 liters a day normally, there's a soda fountain at work and I'm right next to it it's so easy to just down a ton of it every day
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[QUOTE=Scot;35667774]This is what happens when you drink a single coke:
So this is not surprising.[/QUOTE]
so there's a chemical reaction parallel to what happens when you ingest literally anything? cool
[QUOTE=ButtsexV3;35667780]I do about 5 liters a day normally, there's a soda fountain at work and I'm right next to it it's so easy to just down a ton of it every day[/QUOTE]
say goodbye to your pancreas
[QUOTE=Cuon Alpinus;35667801]say goodbye to your pancreas[/QUOTE]
my plan is to get really terribly unhealthy and then just quit cold turkey, so when I'm finally semi-healthy I feel really fucking great
[QUOTE=Leaf Runner;35667637]"It was the gun's bullet projectile being launched down the barrel by the explosive pressure that killed him, don't go blaming the man holding the gun over this!"
that's pretty much your logic. Coca-cola is to blame. Also, High Fructose Corn Syrup is addictive as fuck. ([URL]http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21623683[/URL])
The women became addicted to coca-cola because the pleasure caused by satisfying her high fructose corn syrup addiction was associated with the taste and feel of coca-cola, similar to how nicotine addicts prefer one brand of cigarettes.
Coca-cola has plenty of dangerous ingredients, such as aspartamine (a Monsanto-manufactured carcinogenic toxin) not to mention the dangerous levels of sugar.[/QUOTE]First, what you linked has nothing to do with the addiction of high fructose corn syrup, it only talks about the metabolism of cancer cells with an emphasis on fructose. There is no documented peer reviewed study on high fructose corn syrup. Secondly, you mean aspartame which has no cancer risk at normal dosage ([URL]http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17828671[/URL]), and is only found in diet coca cola. Aspartamine is a synonym for asparagine, which is an amino acid.
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And the amount of sugar, while high, is only unhealthy if the soda is consumed daily, respecting the consumers health and other factors.
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Considering her diet and other unhealthy actions, I'm damn sure drinking gallons of Coca Cola is the icing on the cake of her demise.
"ate little and smoked about 30 cigarettes a day"
She was an all around unhealthy individual, but people will think it's just the soda, even though it did play a big role.
I remember when I used to drink fizzy drinks like it was water when younger.
Haven't had any for ages, decided to have a nice glass of coke yesterday and then had stomach aches the whole night.
Damn, and I thought my dad was a hard core (Diet) Coke addict.
[QUOTE=Apache249;35667579]I'm drinking a Mexican Coke right now. They're selling large cases of it at Costco.[/QUOTE]
Mexican Coke and Mexican Pepsi are the shit, mostly because they use real sugar and actually use glass bottles.
Also who the fuck could drink that much in a day?
[QUOTE=Vasili;35667909]I remember when I used to drink fizzy drinks like it was water when younger.
Haven't had any for ages, decided to have a nice glass of coke yesterday and then had stomach aches the whole night.[/QUOTE]
You have a pretty weak stomach if a glass of coke causes stomach aches.
i blame video games
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