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Forty_Five 121 points ago +126 / -5

Coke is poison for your body. Nobody should be drinking that garbage anyway.

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SHALL_NOT 86 points ago +89 / -3

It violates so many basic rules of good health. Carbonation and acid bad for teeth. 40 grams of the worst type sugar per can. 140 totally empty calories. If youre thirsty, drink WATER.

I had a buddy who drank 1-2 GALLONS of soda per day and was constantly plagued by "mystery" health issues of all sorts. Mental health, IBD, renal disease, general malaise. He'd always ask me what the problem could be, "but don't get on me about the soda, what else?" "bro its not the soda, I stopped drinking it for a week and nothing got better. I actually felt worse!"

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ABrainDisease 74 points ago +74 / -0

Thats called withdrawal. Sugar is a helluva drug.

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SHALL_NOT 44 points ago +44 / -0

Well he only drank diet soda but all of his justifications were really typical of an addict. Besides that, he really thought that if he stopped for a week then it should have cleared up health issues that had formed over his decade+ habit of insane soda intake, with minimal water.

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TaxDollarsHardAtWork 1 point ago +1 / -0

He's going to also enjoy some kidney stones.

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Isolated_Patriot 20 points ago +20 / -0

Corn Syrup is not sugar.

Preservatives are not red meat.

Fat is an essential nutrient.

Fiberglass is not tobacco.

Massive amounts of cooperate money and fake news have convinced everyone of the opposite, but likely 80-90% of all chronic health problems can be traced back to those four points.

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that_sound 11 points ago +11 / -0

"Fiberglass is not tobacco."

What is that in reference to?

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Quietam_Unum 6 points ago +6 / -0

Sugar is a helluva drug.

I got bad news for you. That ain't sugar. It is worse. It got worse when the sugar (bad) was replaced by HFCS (worse).

Funny thing about Pepsi(r). That stuff always me vomit. Don't know why or what ingredient set me off but if I drank a Pepsi, I was garan-damn-teed to yak it back up within 15 or 20 minutes. Last one was in '64

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D__1 4 points ago +4 / -0

But is Coke going to use brown sugar in their drinks now?

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Rock_Flag_Eagle 19 points ago +19 / -0

Had a buddy from West Virginia who was like that. Saw him drink 5-7 cans of coke a day in the office. My other friend and I were practically begging him to stop so he wouldn’t get diabetes or have a heart attack and die in his late 30s. He had a rash of health problems too. I’ll admit I like the taste of it, but I never drink it except on very rare occasions where I chase a shot of whiskey with it.

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Darkheartisland 7 points ago +7 / -0

Whiskey is healthier than coke.

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squanchingonpao 13 points ago +13 / -0

I never understood why carbonation is bad for you?

It is the high fructose corn syrup, sugar and calories that make this shit terrible.

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tombombadil 5 points ago +5 / -0

Yeah bubbles aren’t the issue.

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SHALL_NOT 4 points ago +4 / -0

Carbonation can mess with your tooth enamel afaik thats about it.

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HandshakeMilkshake 4 points ago +4 / -0

Think champagne. The bubbles are a quick delivery medium for the alcohol. In soda, just replace alcohol with HFCS, and just like that your body is insulin drunk & flooded with cortisol.

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squanchingonpao 1 point ago +1 / -0

Why are the bubbles a quick delivery medium? What is the science behind that?

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booblitchutz 10 points ago +10 / -0

I used to drink diet soda and had all kinds of digestive issues. Once I stopped, things got better pretty fast.

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AOCs_tits_4ever 8 points ago +8 / -0

Diet soda is even worse than soda soda I think.

if you crave the bubbles drink Champagne, you can pretend you're a Senator and claim you were afraid for your life from the armed insurrection of people taking selfies and staying inside the velvet rope lines.

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IAbsolutelyDare 8 points ago +8 / -0

Drink tonic water, the quinine will save you from the Fake Virus. 😎

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Quietam_Unum 3 points ago +3 / -0

Diet soda is even worse than soda soda I think.

Fun diet soda fact: Humans don't digest the artificial sweetener in diet soda. By measuring the concentrations of that chemical in your swimming pool you can tell how much urine has been added to the water.

Icky, but funny...

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Cstriker01 3 points ago +3 / -0

The Aspartame in Diet soda is awful. Its a known carcinogen, its an apatite increaser, and its addictive as sugar. So all the "Diet" in it is WAY worse.

This is on top of Phosphoric acid in soda to begin with that drops blood pH levels, which is when your body uses natural buffer of calcium from your bones. This is why women have higher rates of osteoporosis as on average they pound back more soda, especially the diet shit.

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booblitchutz 2 points ago +2 / -0

I'm not sure it's worse, so much as it's as bad. Diet soda is jam packed with a shit-ton of chemicals that does who knows what to you, while regular is jam packed with sugar and we all know what that does.

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SHALL_NOT 5 points ago +5 / -0

He comes from a family of people who eat like they are actively trying to die, so maybe genetics?

He legitimately could not pass a 711 if he was out of soda. 3-5 of the second biggest gulp they had per day. Would leave the house to go refill too. First thing in the morning, late at night, didnt matter. His car and bedroom were littered with huge soda cups. When he cleaned, they'd be back in a week or two. Favorite interaction was

"hey dude my kidneys hurt"

"its probably the daily gallons of soda, maybe you should drink actual water instead. You dont drink water, of course your kidneys arent happy"

"well soda has water in it right? Besides Ive always drank soda, this kidney thing is new."

Some people man I swear. Between his diet, lack of exercise, cigarette smoking, and confrontational demeanor I would not be surprised if he dies in the next 10 years. In our mid 30s now, mother nature aint fucking around like hes 21 anymore. His bill is probably about to come due.

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sometimescanbefunny 5 points ago +5 / -0

Too bad he and the millions of others like him first soak up billions of taxpayer dollars. So tired of paying for welfare queens and the poor decisions of others.

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Ridiculousposter 2 points ago +2 / -0

The will to drink more.

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NotMyGovernor 10 points ago +11 / -1

RO Filter Your Water!

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Forty_Five 14 points ago +14 / -0

Way ahead of you. I'm on well water so if I don't filter that shit it tastes like iron.

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NeverBeFat 7 points ago +7 / -0

I've been soda free for over two years now. Life's much better without it.

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War_Hamster 6 points ago +6 / -0

The only things Coke should be used for is mixing with Captain Morgan's and cleaning up grease spots in the driveway.

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PaleoPopulist 3 points ago +4 / -1

That's why Donald Drinks diet