from MSNBC April 20, 2012
Can Coca cola kill you? You betcha
http://www.takepart.com/article/2012/04/20/it-true-10-liters-coca-cola-and-30-cigarettes-day-will-kill-you
A 30-year-old New Zealand mother of eight has died. Actually, Natasha Harris of Invercargill died 26 months ago of a heart attack. Her February 2010 passing is news today because pathologist Dr. Dan Mornin has testified at an inquest to Harris’s death that she suffered from hypokalemia, or low potassium. Mornin attributed the low potassium to what he deemed excessive consumption of the syrupy carbonated beverage Coca-Cola. The pathologist further noted that toxic levels of caffeine, a go-to ingredient in Coke, may have contributed to Harris’s cardiac arrest.
Harris, the Associated Press reports, downed 8 to 10 liters (2.1 to 2.6 gallons) of Coke a day.
“The first thing she would do in the morning was to have a drink of Coke beside her bed and the last thing she would do at night was have a drink of Coke,” said Harris’s partner, Chris Hodgkinson, in a deposition. “She was addicted to Coke.”
Can cigarettes and coca cola kill you? Oh yeah.
William Wilson answers: · Hospitalist at Addison Gilbert Hospital
This story is tragic but not unexpected. It is clear from recent research that excessive fructose mainly from sugar and HFCS is the driving force behind insulin resistance and central obesity. When someone with insulin resistance consumes high glycemic carbohydrates along with their fructose infused Coke, their brain is exposed to toxic magnified glucose spikes.
Over time these glucose spikes trigger a chronic brain disorder called Carbohydrate Associated Reversible Brain syndrome or CARB syndrome. People with CARB syndrome end up with up to 21 brain dysfunction symptoms including fatigue and mood swings. Because the brain plays a key role in auto-regulating fat stores, people with CARB syndrome end up storing extra fat at any caloric intake. Learn more at: http//carbsyndrome.com.
The combination of insulin resistance and obesity is a doorway to high blood pressure, heart attacks and strokes. Go ahead and wash down that pizza with a liter of Coke—you’ll end up frying your brain and there’s a good chance you will die prematurely. I guess things don’t always go better with Coke.