Coca-Cola linked to death of NZ woman, coroner finds.
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[QUOTE=snookypookums;39585522]I have a question which wasn't entirely addressed by the article - seeing as how in most supermarkets I've seen in the US and the UK have Coca-Cola, Pepsi and also a slightly cheaper supermarket brand of cola, wouldn't it be kinda dangerous from a legal standpoint to use a picture of a Coca-Cola bottle or has this bit (about her dying exclusively from coca Cola) being conclusively proven?
This woman must've had serious issues to chug that much of coke a day - I wonder if she actually had any teeth left.[/QUOTE]
This lady drank an outrageous amount of coca cola each day. The caffeine and sugar made her have irregular heart beats (cardiac arrhythmia) basically she'd go from normal breathing to "HUFFHUFFHUFFHUFF" and then back to regular breathing. Palpitations, pounding feeling in the chest, being light headed, fainting, shortness of breath, discomfort and tiredness are all symptoms of this.
Because you can basically die overingesting with any liquid- water included (though water ingestion deaths are typically caused by the water amounts swelling tissues, as well as several effects that would come from drowning) the fact it has a Coca Cola picture instead of any other generic picture/or a picture of a generic brand of soda shouldn't make it legally dangerous at all.
She died because she chugged large quantities and according to several articles on the topic, if she didn't drink her vast amounts of Coca Cola a day, she'd basically go nutso until she got her 'fix'.
She had all of her teeth removed due to decay and her coke drinking habit affected one of her children she had, when he grew his teeth, he had no enamel.
I'm definitely saying mental issues, but the real question is why none of her relatives took her in to see someone or get help.
Edit: Fixing a few things, I'm being a night-owl and I'm running out of coffee. @_@
I can barely manage to drink 1 liter of fluid a day..
[QUOTE=SleepyAl;39583258]I'm surprised she didn't die from drinking 10 liters in a single day.[/QUOTE]
"Coca-Cola linked to [B]death [/B]of NZ woman, coroner finds."
unless you're talking about just in a day period, rather than over a long period of time :v:
Human body can take TONS and TONS of damage. Albeit, very tiny things could instantly kill one too.
[QUOTE=Sgt Doom;39585385]Only US coke (and perhaps Canada) has HFCS, rest of the world uses sugar. Cheaper outside the US to use sugar as we don't have the unusual combination of tariffs and subsidies that make HFCS cheaper to use. Dunno if they have factories outside the US for international supply or what.[/QUOTE]
Canada is worse, because they don't even label it "HFCS". They label it "glucose/fructose".
EDIT: the labelling is confusing, because glucose/fructose can mean anything. I'm not sure how much of it is actually made from corn.
"glucose-fructose: glucose syrups and isomerized glucose syrups, singly or in combination, where the fructose fraction does not exceed 60 percent of the sweetener on a dry basis"
[url]http://www.inspection.gc.ca/english/fssa/labeti/guide/ch2-1e.shtml[/url]
[QUOTE=smeismastger;39572990]Everything in excessive amounts kills you.
I still remember that woman who tried to break the record of drinking most water, she died later that same day.[/QUOTE]Wasn't that a radio competition for a Wii?
[QUOTE=1LUV;39592809]Wasn't that a radio competition for a Wii?[/QUOTE]
Yep, the "Hold your wee for a wii" contest.
That woman drank almost two gallons of water before she died. She finished second.
The woman in the OP? She drank more than that [i]every day[/i].
[QUOTE=WolvesSoulZ;39583685]4.07$ a litter of coke? Where the hell do you live.
2 Litters bottles were used for the bellow examples.
1.67 x 5 = 8.35 a day,
8.35 x 7 = 58.45 a week.
Then usually they're cheaper, ie
0.99 x 5 = 4.95 a day,
4.95 x 7 = 34.65 a week.[/QUOTE]
stop using your canadian money. 2L coke down here in Australia and New Zealand is about $4
[QUOTE=ShaunOfTheLive;39580314]So 10 litres a day of Gatorade is fine? Awesome. I'll report back with the results.[/QUOTE]
because that's exactly what i suggested
"as long as you drank something that had electrolytes to supply for what was flushed"
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[QUOTE=deadoon;39579678]Sustained dosages of caffiene can cause muscle spasms, or "caffeine jitters". She died of cardiac arrhythmia which merely means an unusual beating of the heart, caffeine can cause that. Under normal circumstances, it wouldn't cause any immediate problems, but is having a constant dosage of 1 gram of caffeine a day normal?[/QUOTE]
Yes.
Caffeine is actually very safe up to some ridiculous dosages. Probably due to the body building up a tolerance very quickly.
For example I consume about 500-700mg caffeine every day, among other stimulants (ginseng, B vitamins, guarana extracts, etc). Last time I got a checkup I was exceedingly healthy.
It could be a factor none the less, but I very much doubt the caffeine alone is to blame considering this is a habit she's had for a while.
Don't Coke bottles have serving sizes on them? That should be enough if you have the ability to read your local language.
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