January 25, 2008

Claim: Too Much Cola Can Cause Kidney Problems
posted by Hank Mabuse 16 years ago
  • Then I should be on dialysis right now.
  • Looks like I'm switching to Mountain Dew.
  • ever seen what happens to a tooth if you leave it in a glass/jar of cola?
  • No, but I did clean a frying pan with it once. Worked like a charm.
  • I stopped drinking Coke when I got braces, because the orthodontist told me that the peptic acid they use to roughen the teeth's surfaces to glue on the little metal doohickies is the same stuff in Coke.
  • I know someone that was hospitalized due to a kidney stone. It was attributed to a high consumption of Cola, specifically, an average of 8 cans each day for a couple of years. Ummm, hello common sense! And in other news, too much of anything is not good for you.
  • I was not allowed to drink any carbonated soda while I had braces on. The minute those suckers came off, Diet Coke City!!! Snopes has a whole section devoted to Coke Urban Legends, including the tooth in Coke one: "Coca-Cola's top chemist, Orville May, explained to Hobbs [then president of Coca-Cola] and the company's other executives that anything containing sugar and phosphoric acid-- fresh orange juice, for example--would dissolve teeth over a period of time. "
  • They're taking the piss! Oh no, that's these tubes.
  • It does make sense to me that anything with acid would eventually dissolve teeth. They don't say whether it's the same period of time, though.
  • I drink a shitload of that crap, and diet version too. So Alzheimer's and kidney stones, mumble mumble grnk
  • "too much of anything is not good for you." Balance Understanding Love Friends Anal Massage in the Fenlands
  • Specially those last two combined, Ralph.
  • I drank coke, I had kidney stones... once you have had kidney stones you will do ANYTHING to not get them again.. now I drink 7 up...
  • Don't they just zap them with ultrasound thingies, now?
  • Don't they just zap them with ultrasound thingies, now? The big ones, yes, but even then you have to pass the pieces. So I'm told anyway, it's never happened to me.
  • Ummm, hello common sense! And in other news, too much of anything is not good for you. Yeah really.
  • zapping is reserved for boulders and such... for most of us, the solution is about three or four days of labor pain as we give birth to something about the size of ten grains of sand....
  • I laugh at your puny cola drinks and tiny kidney stones and drink Fresca.
  • Does the study say anything about diluting the Coca-Cola with Captain Morgan's?
  • See, I drank Coca-cola. And I got adopted (they tell you that won't happen, but it does!) I don't want to say how that turned out, because you seem like nice people, but can I just say that sometimes things get ugly? And then there's gout. It's not a given - I know it sounds like I'm telling you a big old story - but sometimes there's gout. That really messes up your options in various ways. I LIKE the YMCA. I LIKE SSI. I like those old buildings, and it's fun to maneuver around ancient boilers. But one thing they don't tell you about when you become an early Coca-Cola enthusiast is that you'll never ever have another friend. After a while, Coca-cola can't find you. After a while, you can't spell Coca-cola's name. Then you're fucked - but I don't want to say so.
  • Once you get kidney stones you are more susceptible of having them again. The first time I got them one had either formed with a sharp point or it might have been that I had gotten punched in the stomach the week before, but it became lodged in my urethra. So they had to try to extract it, which involves things that I was unaware that they could,would and did do.(cough,cough) btw, that was before they figured out they could disolve them using sound waves. If you ever have kidney stones,consider yourself fortunate that medical science has progressed as much as it has since the late seventies.
  • I used to drink (usually) 6 liters of Coke a day for a couple years. 2 in the morning, 2 after work, and 2 before bed. I did get to the point where Coke had as little flavor/taste as water, but water had as much flavor/taste as a soda pop. Luckily, I didn't get the kidney stones, nor any of the other bad juju you would expect (I was around 205 pounds when I picked up the habit, and around 205 pounds when I dropped it). Besides the messed up taste buds, of course.
  • I like a smoke with my rum and Coke.
  • I like a fuck with my Peking Duck.
  • I like some tongue with my Egg Foo Yung.
  • I like something with my orange. Damn.
  • Courage?
  • I've switched to orangeade, in the hopes it will get me laid.
  • I play with a door hinge when I drink my vodka orange?
  • That'll make you go blind, you know.
  • Get your paws off me while I finish my coffee.
  • I actually sent this link to Mr. meredithea, because his dad died really young of kidney failure, and he (Mr. meredithea) will drink at least 2 liters of diet cola a day. We're going to try to swap him off to diet-something-else. Or, you know, water.
  • That pesky leopard stayed all night, TUM? Hey, at least offer it breakfast.