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Geeky1
8 Sep 2003, 2:05am
W a t e r
1. 75% of Americans are chronically dehydrated. (Likely applies to half the world population.)
2. In 37% of Americans, the thirst mechanism is so weak that it is often mistaken for hunger.

3. Even MILD dehydration will slow down one's metabolism as much as 3%.

4. One glass of water will shut down midnight hunger pangs for almost 100% of the dieters studied in a U-Washington study.

5. Lack of water, the #1 trigger of daytime fatigue.

6. Preliminary research indicates that 8-10 glasses of water a day could significantly ease back and joint pain for up to 80% of sufferers.

7. A mere 2% drop in body water can trigger fuzzy short-term memory, trouble with basic math, and difficulty focusing on the computer screen or on a printed page.

8. Drinking 5 glasses of water daily decreases the risk of colon cancer by 45%, plus it can slash the risk of breast cancer by 79%, and one is 50% less likely to develop bladder cancer.

Are you drinking the amount of water you should every day?

C o k e
1. In many states (in the USA) the highway patrol carries two gallons of Coke in the truck to remove blood from the highway after a car accident.

2. You can put a T-bone steak in a bowl of coke and it will be gone in two days.

3. To clean a toilet: Pour a can of Coca-Cola into the toilet bowl and let the "real thing" sit for one hour, then flush clean. The citric acid in Coke removes stains from vitreous China.

4. To remove rust spots from chrome car bumpers: Rub the bumper with a rumpled-up piece of Reynolds Wrap aluminum foil dipped in Coca-Cola.

5. To clean corrosion from car battery terminals: Pour a can of Coca-Cola over the terminals to bubble away the corrosion.

6. To loosen a rusted bolt: Applying a cloth soaked in Coca-Cola to the rusted bolt for several minutes.

7. To bake a moist ham: Empty a can of Coca-Cola into the baking pan, wrap the ham in aluminum foil, and bake. Thirty minutes before the ham is finished, remove the foil, allowing the drippings to mix with the Coke for a sumptuous brown gravy.

8. To remove grease from clothes: Empty a can of coke into a load of greasy clothes, add detergent, and run through a regular cycle. The Coca-Cola will help loosen grease stains. It will also clean road haze from your windshield. Check it out.

For Your Info :
1. The active ingredient in Coke is phosphoric acid. Its pH is 2.8. It will dissolve a nail in about 4 days. Phosphoric acid also leaches calcium from bones and is a major contributor to the rising increase in osteoporosis.

2. To carry Coca-Cola syrup (the concentrate) the commercial truck must use the Hazardous material place cards reserved for highly corrosive materials.

3. The distributors of coke have been using it to clean the engines of their trucks for about 20 years!

Now the question is, would you like a glass of water or coke?

Rot Katze
8 Sep 2003, 2:09am
coke

MrBill
8 Sep 2003, 2:13am
Drinking a coke right now. :)

TheBaron
8 Sep 2003, 2:25am
both, but i am DEFINITELY not one of those people where thirst is mistaken for hunger. if anything, its the other way around. i drink a TON

a2jfreak
8 Sep 2003, 2:29am
I'd rather be drinking (but stupid Coca-Cola discontinued it, the jerks!):

Clutch
8 Sep 2003, 2:31am
Well I'm drinking Pepsi right now, but I'd go for the coke. But I really would like some gatorade.

Thrax
8 Sep 2003, 2:35am
<font color=green>*Thrax holds up his can of coke</font>

By the by, most of those statements about coke are false, however.

Geeky1
8 Sep 2003, 2:43am
Maybe that's why it's on a joke page? Dunno... if it is a joke, it's not that funny.

Personally, I like Pepsi better anyhow...

Kwitko
8 Sep 2003, 2:43am
Got Snopes? (http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/acid.asp)

Rot Katze
8 Sep 2003, 2:57am
I hated Surge..

It was so popular, and then faded away

Spinner
8 Sep 2003, 2:57am
You've got me all thirsty now.

For a can of coke of course.

p.s (What's water?)

Thrax
8 Sep 2003, 2:59am
TD never fails to snope us when he's got urban legends BS on hand. ;D

Preacher
8 Sep 2003, 3:37am
Give me Diet Dr. Pepper or give me death!

As for water, I drink alot of that and diet soda. Water does have an amazing ability to quench hunger as well as thirst. We went without food for a week during Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape training (SERE...think POW camp and all the fun that goes with it!). It was surprisingly easy, since we drank so much water. The worst part was the headaches and irritability on Day 2 due to lack of caffeine.

Clutch
8 Sep 2003, 4:31am
Oh man I remembe Surge, everyone down here was drinking Sundrop, and we still do, boy do we love our Sundrop. But when I was in middle school we had to drive 40 minutes to get to South Carolina where they sold surge. Here in North Carolina they didnt, but also they don't sell Sundrop in Sc, as most of the country.

Nixxer
8 Sep 2003, 11:02am
The next time you're stopped by a highway patrolman, try asking him if he's ever cleaned blood stains off a highway with Coca-Cola. If you're lucky, by the time he stops laughing he'll have forgotten about the citation he was going to give you.

I thought that was quite amusing.

CB
8 Sep 2003, 3:15pm
Actually they are all true. The citric acid is very strong, but it's not nearly as strong as your digestive acid, so you really don't have anything to worry about.

I've tried the steel nail experiment myself, it's easy.

Just hammer a steel nail into a coke can, and let it sit for a couple of days, the acid will eat right through the nail.

danball1976
9 Sep 2003, 2:38am
CBDroege said
Actually they are all true. The citric acid is very strong, but it's not nearly as strong as your digestive acid, so you really don't have anything to worry about.

I've tried the steel nail experiment myself, it's easy.

Just hammer a steel nail into a coke can, and let it sit for a couple of days, the acid will eat right through the nail.

Coke has a pH of 4.0, the HCL (Hydocloric Acid) in your stomach has a pH of 1.0

Thrax
9 Sep 2003, 2:41am
Your stomach isn't an acid.

It's an alkaline. When it gets too acidic (Grease usually) you get heartburn. You take tablets with maganese (A strong base), to get your stomach well back above 7pH.

shwaip
9 Sep 2003, 2:43am
nah...it is

http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/may98/892927858.Ch.r.html

Preacher
9 Sep 2003, 2:43am
Danball is right. There is a HUGE difference between the citric acid in coke and the hydrochloric acid in your stomach. Without the stomach's protective lining which constantly replaces itself, our stomach's own acid can eat itself and significantly damage the surrounding organs and tissues, as in ulcer. Heck, water can eat a nail away given enough time!

a2jfreak
9 Sep 2003, 7:55am
When I purchased my newest baby (read: truck) a few months ago the salesman (yes, he was a man so I don't need to be all PC) was telling me about pouring coke over the terminals of my battery to eat away the corrosion. He then went on to tell me about how he doesn't drink coke because of how bad it is; he had seen an experiment when he was a young boy show coke eat through a paper plate in 20 minutes (or something, I don't recall exactly). Anyway, for that reason he didn't drink coke because he didn't want anything bad like that going into his system.

The whole time he's telling me this I can't help but notice he's:
1. Toothless
2. Very overweight
3. Drinking coffee
4. SMOKING

Yeah, ok, so coke ain't really a health drink, but I think the smoking and the coffee and the extra 100lbs and having no teeth is a little worse, BUBBA! ;D

mmonnin
9 Sep 2003, 1:03pm
Drink like a gallon of water a day. All you guys are gonna die.;)

A base will neutralize acid not make it stronger thrax.

Water is a base, it cannot 'eat' anything away. It can only wear away.

Kwitko
9 Sep 2003, 1:56pm
Thrax misinformed? Thi-- this can't be! ;) Is the universe going to implode onto itself?

Marc, pure water is neutral. When the molecules react they always create equal parts of hydronium (acid) and hydroxy (base) ions which cancel each other out.

Water is also called the universal solvent because it can dissolve any substance over a long enough time span.

How is it that the old man so far removed from school is pwning the high school and college kids? Education these days...:shakehead

Camman
9 Sep 2003, 3:26pm
a2jfreak said
the salesman was telling me about pouring coke over the terminals of my battery to eat away the corrosion.


Well, that is like the one thing in that list of rediculous stuff that's true, pouring soda on corroded battery terminals will remove the corrosion, not so sure it "eats it away", but I think it has something to do with the reaction between the carbonation and the corrosion, but I'm not sure, I do know however, that you can do this same trick with ANY type of soda, so it's not just Coca Cola.

a2jfreak
9 Sep 2003, 3:58pm
Camman: I wasn't saying that wasn't true, but I did find it funny that this man was so concerned about coke that he didn't care about the coffee or the cigarettes or the food or the whatever-it-was-that-rotted-his-teeth.

It was like, "So, coke is bad and you don't drink it because it's bad?" :scratch:

Camman
9 Sep 2003, 7:42pm
oh no, I didn't think you were saying it was untrue, I was just kinda responding to the whole thread and how that was really the only thing on that "list" that had some validity to it. I did enjoy the irony of your story though :D

CB
10 Sep 2003, 12:51am
Nobody ever listens to me. :shakehead

Khaos
12 Sep 2003, 2:27am
Not sure why you would use Coke to clean battery terminals when a baking powder solution works ten times better... Just a thought, in case anyone with a severely corroded positive terminal is reading this and getting ideas.

MoTHA_NaTuRE
12 Sep 2003, 2:49am
hey, then will oxi-clean remove rust?

Khaos
12 Sep 2003, 2:56am
No, although it may neutralize acid. I really don't know anything about Oxi-Clean.

morfeu
13 Sep 2003, 11:39am
That's a great post, well done.

PowerMD
16 Sep 2003, 2:23am
Thrax said
Your stomach isn't an acid.

It's an alkaline. When it gets too acidic (Grease usually) you get heartburn. You take tablets with maganese (A strong base), to get your stomach well back above 7pH.


Huh?
normal gasric pH is like 1-2
GERD (Heartburn) is not due to acidity - incompetent lower esophageal sphincter allowing reflux
Duodenal ulcers are from acidity
gastric ulcers are from H pylori
Antacid tabs = MgOH or CaCO3