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Doctors Issue Cola Warning

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Posted on May 25, 2009
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Forget about cavities. Doctors report in the International Journal of Clinical Practice that excessive cola drinking can cause paralysis and a host of other serious health problems. Extreme symptoms were suffered by people who drank as much as three liters of cola a day. That kind of soda binging is becoming less rare, says one doctor.

BBC:

In a commentary, Dr Clifford Packer from the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Centre in Ohio said: “We have every reason to think that it is not rare.

“With aggressive mass marketing, super-sizing of soft drinks, and the effects of caffeine tolerance and dependence, there is very little doubt that tens of millions of people in industrialised countries drink at least 2-3 l of cola per day.

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By Certified Nursing Assistant, June 6, 2011 at 7:11 pm Link to this comment

Forget the extreme illness, the amount of sugar in one liter is not good for your health. I am surprised that the fizzy drinks are still popular.

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By coloradokarl, May 26, 2009 at 8:33 am Link to this comment

The states successfully litigated the tobacco industry it is now time to go after the “junk” food industry and use the settlement monies to pay for health care…..... sell your macdonalds stock NOW !!!

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By liecatcher, May 25, 2009 at 8:24 pm Link to this comment

First a few facts & then a modest proposal.
AMERICA is a country controlled by FASCISTS & OLIGARCHS. These miscreants spend unimaginable sums of money to brainwash the populace. The numbers of uneducated & undereducated continues to grow. It’s easy to pray for a miracle or a messiah, but the die is cast, & with OBAMA expediting the predation we are on the precipice waiting to be forced into an abyss. Others have eloquently written about how these predators are destroying the air we breathe, the food we eat, & the water we drink. We can’t stop these vultures, so what can we do?
The only way to fight back and hurt our oppressors is to: quit smoking, lose weight,stop drinking alcohol,caffeinated drinks,& most difficult of all,live within our means. Usury is how our masters got started before they were driven from the temple.

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By samosamo, May 25, 2009 at 2:27 pm Link to this comment

Let em have their colas, it is a choice thing and by damn if they want to drink 3, 4, 6 liters a day, let em drink it.

This world is awash with idiots that are so gullible for a fancy taste(sugar based)or 300 channels of msm BS, razzled dazzle and ill information that in order to reduce or depopulate the over population of the humans on this planet, let em drink the shit, let their muscles stop working, let them die where they lie because THEY made the choice and there is enough information around to warn people of the dire effects of drinking anything in mass quantities that will have negative effects on one’s health because coke and pepsi don’t give a shit so I don’t give a shit and I am slap out of sympathy.

And how ironic that a company will make it into a ‘fortune 500’ list by selling poison for little children to adults to consume with gusto and it is a relatively slow acting poison so if an addict eventually awakens to their plight it may just be too late.

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