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Yeah it's usually what I drink If I'm designated driver but I think most people don't realise it's 49% alcohol. But you're right if it's only a few drops hopefully it won't be picked up in a breath test. Can you imagine, "please Mr Officer I swear all I had was 12 lemon, lime and Bitters ??" :lol:
LOL :):
Thanks for the info, I actually already knew this but continued to drink it lol. However when I have my nieces around or friends kids I dont drink coke in front of them and as far as they are concerned its not in our house. Little do they know lol. I am getting better though and have switched to coke zero :)
Interesting story -
I have a GF that is a midwife, she told me a story once about a woman she assisted giving birth to.
When they were filling out the questionaire when she came into emergency (she was from out of town) she filled in the usual questions, and there was the part at the end that mentioned 'anything else we should know?'
She said to my friend that she wasn't sure if it was relevant, but she drinks approx 4L coke per day.. and has done for as long as she could remember (think she was in her 30's) :o
To cut a long story short, she ended up birthing her baby, was an average size baby (not her first) - relatively straight forward, no complications... EXCEPT when she was pushing her baby out, her pevis absolutely shattered :jawdrop:
My GF said she has never seen anyone in so much pain in her life.
She ended up giving birth, no issues with the baby, but had to get her body set from her pelvis shattering, so she was in hospital for ages after having her baby.
Apparently the Drs etc did all kinds of tests in regards to it shattering... they said that her bones had just rotted & deteriorated over time - more than likely to the sugar, etc from the amount of coke (and perhaps poor diet otherwise) she had been drinking on a daily basis for such a long period of time :o
I realise this is fairly unbelievable, but still ... OMG!!!
Geeze... but it doesn't surprise me... 4L is a massive ammount... especially when you consider that you should replace every glass of coke with a glass of water to neutralise the de-hydrating effects of it. I assume she wasn't drinking 4L of water each day. How horrific!
A friend who I work with does very heavy labour work (shovelling etc) and drinks nothing but coke and iced coffee. I saw him with a water bottle once and thought he must be sick! He always has them side by side when he is working - 2L of each. Cuckoo!
I was googling Diet coke tonight and came across this !!!
http://www.dietcoke.com/press_032207.pdf
Even a addict like me can see the wool being pulled over my eyes lol
Hmmm... yes, I'm sure there will be TOKEN ammounts of "vitamin and mineral supplements" in that product... what a crock.
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Met a couple today that used to be huge coke addicts... they've given it up because both have serious health issues... not sure whether it's helping their conditions but they have lost a significant amount of weight! They are also new parents... and I suspect they have found their sleep (when they are getting some) isn't as disrupted by the caffeine as well. They say they haven't been dieting... just ban coke from their fridge.
My FIL is a limo driver and had a bottle of lemon, lime and bitters that he bought from a servo which he was drinking as he drove back froma job. Got pulled over, RBT'ed and blew .06. When he said all he'd been drinking was the l,l&b, they made him wait 20 mins and blow again.. and it was down to .01. So it will leave a mouth-alcohol reading, if not a blood one.:
And on the actual subject of the thread :lol: I am a bad coke addict :redface: But inly for Macca's coke (and only in a medium cup), or from a glass bottle. i have one a day, every day (but follow it up with heaps of water).
Bumping this again... seems every second person I meet these days is a closet coke drinker... talk about being on a mission! LOL I know there are seemingly "worse" addictions... but daily cola consumption really is insidious :( ...not judging though!!! :)
My acupuncturist has banned me from having it, and says that in 10 years Coke will be subjected to the same type of scrutiny that tobacco companies are, ie - age limits, lawsuits etc.
Interesting thought!
Yep, I tend to agree (with the scrutiny)!
i am soi glad i stopped drinking the stuff years ago
Oh yuck, its so bad for you! My MIL is addicted to coke big time, she does not go a day without a can of coke. Yet she complains that she isnt losing weight, feel like saying cut the coke out for one & you might be surpised.
We dont buy soft drink, we only buy it for special occassions like if we have people coming around for a bbq, party etc. I only give DD water in her cup, dont want to even go down the soft drink path, what she doesnt know wont hurt her right!?
just coke? or all fizzy drinks? Because I love my lime lift and my lime hartz mineral water :)
And another bumpity bump as I wage my personal war on this evil "drink"!
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No, don't bump this - I feel guilty enough for the Coke I drank yesterday :redface:
LOL. Those who came to the first BB conference will remember the great talk Tracey Habron gave about the effects of drinking coke on fertility. If you're TTC, it's one to definitely avoid for both people.
I missed the segment on TV last night that showed an experiement which involved a teenage boy drinking a can of "V" caffinated energy drink and then hooking him up to an ecg heart monitor... they said that his heart rate was going "ectopic". Does anyone know what that means???
Weird double post.
Was thinking the exact same thing! I am beginning to think that it is the sugar in stuff I am eating more so (or on top of) the fat that I am eating that is making me fat!:
I hate coke, so that's never been an issue for me, just addicted to everything else that's bad for you!
I never used to really drink Coke...But every now and then i crave it so i have a glass. It's not very often, but it's weird how you can crave something that you rarely have isn't it?
I'm still killing myself slowly ;) with diet carbonated beverages... I don't think that will ever change.
sheesh i knew that coke was bad for you but not that bad just aswell i have pretty much stopped drinking it
I am always amazed at how may kids I see walking around my local shopping centre with a can of coke in their hands. "Oh but they whine until I give them one!" Yeah, and my three year kid asks for a fag so I gave him one, and my 20 month old wanted to watch "Amytiville Horror" so I let him. Yeah, real smart....
Bath this is what my DH had - its where your heart beats super fast and irregularly, so much so that it becomes inefficient at pumping oxygenated blood through your body.:
I missed the segment on TV last night that showed an experiement which involved a teenage boy drinking a can of "V" caffinated energy drink and then hooking him up to an ecg heart monitor... they said that his heart rate was going "ectopic".
Thanks for that Rory :) The stuff should just be banned if that's the case. I agree, kids just sometimes need to hear the word "no". The quick-fix that the parent gets from giving-in just turns into a longer lasting problem in the end... give the kid a sweet treat and you get probably an hours worth of grumpiness after the sugar high wears off... all for 5 minutes peace from nagging... not a good return for the investment if you ask me.
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Thanks for bumping Bath - I hadn't seen this!
My SIL is addicted to the stuff, so I'm going to direct her to this :lol:
There should be a separate thread for this article but here, another reason to quit drinking this evil stuff:
New research suggests that drinking lots of artificially sweetened beverages may be linked with an increased risk of premature births.
"It may be non-optimal for pregnant women to have high consumption of these types of products," Dr. Thorhallur I. Halldorsson of the Statens Serum Institut in Copenhagen, one of the researchers on the study, told Reuters Health.
"Diet" drinks are widely promoted as a healthy alternative to sugary sodas and juices, but Halldorsson and his colleagues note that there's been little research on the safety of regular consumption of artificial sweeteners in humans.
Soft drinks -- both artificially sweetened and sugar sweetened -- were recently linked to high blood pressure, the researchers add, which increases the risk of premature delivery. To investigate whether there might be a direct link, the researchers looked at nearly 60,000 Danish women who reported on their diet, including how many soft drinks they had each day, at around 25 weeks of pregnancy.
Around 5 percent of women delivered their babies before 37 weeks.
Women who had at least one serving of artificially sweetened soda a day while they were pregnant were 38 percent more likely to deliver preterm than women who drank no diet soda at all, the researchers report in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
Women who had at least four diet sodas a day were nearly 80 percent more likely to deliver preterm. The association was the same for normal-weight and overweight women.
The researchers did not report the actual risk of premature babies in each group. However, according to the March of Dimes, one in eight babies -- or around 13 percent -- is born too soon. This means that if drinking diet soda does indeed increase risk - which must first be confirmed by other research teams -- a woman who drank at least one diet soda daily would have a 17 percent risk, while her risk would be around 22 percent if she drank four or more diet sodas.
In a statement, the Calorie Control Council, a lobbying group for companies that make and distribute low-calorie foods, called the study "misleading."
"This study may unduly alarm pregnant women. While this study is counter to the weight of the scientific evidence demonstrating that low-calorie sweeteners are safe for use in pregnancy, research has shown that overweight and obesity can negatively affect pregnancy outcomes," Beth Hubrich, a dietitian with the council, said in the statement. "Further, low-calorie sweeteners can help pregnant women enjoy the taste of sweets without excess calories, leaving room for nutritious foods and beverages without excess weight gain - something that has been shown to be harmful to both the mother and developing baby."
Because only diet soda was linked to preterm delivery, not sugar-sweetened soda, the findings suggest that the artificial sweetener itself, not soda drinking, could account for the relationship, the researchers say. However, they add, other possible causes for the link can't be ruled out.
The researchers didn't look at specific artificial sweeteners, and Halldorsson noted that many beverages contain more than one of these chemicals. However, he and his colleagues say, there is indirect evidence linking the sweetener aspartame to preterm delivery in animals.
Aspartame breaks down into methanol and other substances in the body, which can in turn be converted to toxic substances such as formaldehyde and formic acid, the researchers explain. And studies in non-human primates have linked even very low exposure to methanol to shortened pregnancy and labor complications.
While pregnant women who consume soft drinks shouldn't be alarmed by the findings, Halldorsson said, "what we are seeing warrants further attention."
According to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, women who normally use the artificial sweeteners saccharin (Sweet n' Low), aspartame (NutraSweet), sucralose (Splenda) or acesulfame K (Sunett, Sweet One) can safely continue to do so "in moderation" during pregnancy.