Woman Who Drank Over 2 Gallons of Coca-Cola Per Day Dies
A woman from New Zealand who reportedly drank as much as 2.6 gallons of Coca-Cola per day to fuel her ‘Coke addiction’ has died, and experts are saying that her serious craving for pop was a major contributor. The news could not come at a worse time for Coca-Cola, who has already been hit by both government bodies and consumers alike for their cancer-linked beverage. In fact, the Coca-Cola company made an emergency recipe change in March to remove an ingredient known as 4-methylimidazole (4-MI or 4-MEI) that would have required a cancer warning labeling to be slapped onto the soft drink.
As it was recently removed to avoid the label, this means that Natasha Harris’ Coca-Cola excessive consumption was accompanied by the carcinogenic ingredient. In addition to 4-methylimidazole, Harris also consumed gallons and gallons of a liquid containing aspartame, high-fructose corn syrup, and 40 grams of sugar per can. When you perform some simple math, you can see that Harris actually consumed around 41 and one half 8-ounce cans of Coca-Cola on her heaviest binge drinking days. Further equations show that, at 39 grams per 8-ounce can, Harris was taking in around 1,618 grams of sugar per day. To put that into perspective, that’s 1,598 grams more than the recommended daily limit.
According to expert Dr. Dan Mornin, Harris probably suffered from hypokalemia, or low potassium. Mornin says that this was most likely a result of her excessive Coke consumption, which severely affected her bones. To answer the question as to how anyone could possibly consume such copious amounts of soda despite the serious health risks, it’s important to examine the research regarding sugar addiction. Not only has sugar addiction been labeled as the ‘new alcoholism‘ by health professionals, but a growing body of research also has found that it is actually as addictive as cocaine.
Another health professional expressed concerns over the consumption of Coca-Cola and other sugary beverages, stating:
“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.”
My mother drinks more than 2L of diet coke a day, this type of coke addiction affects more people than anyone realizes. And I know of more people who drink way too much every single day. It is becoming a problem.
Huh? The government missed out on a chance to arrest and fine a person? This woman was clearly a danger to herself and the general public. Sounds like more laws need to be passed. Government could have made thousands in fines and probation fees.
Pople this is not new news, apprx 10 yrs agosome friends of friends told me that a dear friend of theirs diedoperating table and the autopsy showed that all the mans inner stomach lining and surrounding areas were literally frie-burnt as a direct result of his 2 gallons day consumptgion habitr of COKE drinking.
Also, another true story is that in a beverage distr warehouse they found leaky pallet of COKE and the floor cement/varnish seal was corroded w/the acidity of the leaking COKE. Drink pure water or 100% juice w/o sugar added!!!
Sure, 2 gallons of Coke a day is really bad, but so is drinking excessive amounts of water. Whatever happened to moderation in all things?
HA! Beautiful!
when i was little, my grandpa would sometimes buy a couple green glass bottles of coca cola–to use in cleaning the rust off the car bumper and other tools. giving up soda is one of the easiest ways to take care of our bodies. and in my opinion, there are 1000 more delicious and satisfying ways to consume sugar.
When I was a little girl (many years ago) my mom would not allow us to drink coke. Her dad was a commercial painter and he used coke to clean up his paint cans!!! I guess it would clean up your stomach too!
jack lalane is dead, he exersised every day and ate well and used vitamins and HE IS STILL DEAD !!! CAN I LINK THE FACT WITH HIS LIFE STILE…NO….
Yes. Thanks for pointing out Jack Lalanne who died…AT 96 YEARS OLD! He died from pneumonia, something that could kill any man no matter how healthy.
As far as Jack LaLane it's not just how long you live but the quality of your life also, Mr LaLane seemed to be in remarkable health even into advanced age. If you do even a small amount of research you will realize how toxic Coke and similar products are for humans.
One can drink too much water a day?i’ve never heard of that.