A friend sent this email to me today and I though how appropriate and wanted to share with everyone else here.....

Some interesting information that you may want to check out....Water or
Coke?

Water

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?

COKE

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. (I swear my
uncle and pap did this - I witnessed it - to clean their batteries!)

6. To loosen a rusted bolt: Apply 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.

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 placards 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!

Great information.... I love water even as a kid I drank water instead of koolaid or tea... Granted I drank koolaid also.. I have found that drinking water does help with the things I thought were hunger pains... I drink at least 64-100 oz a day. Now when I get the hunger pains they are the real thing...

Thanks for posting this

This is great information. I plan on passing it on to my friends who are coke junkies. I used to be really heavy on coke, and I stopped about 5 years ago. A couple of months ago, I used to drink a gallon of water a day and stopped for some reason, but I'll start again. I heard that coke, when it first came out, put other "substances" in, and that's where the name derived from. Anyone know about that?

Ali Cat

Allicat.. I read that when coke a cola first came out it had cocaine in it.. very small amount I think.

I heard that too. Back then, it was cocaine, now, we'll be boneless masses...Geez...whatever happened to the FDA? LoL

Ali Cat

Most, if not all of the coke stuff is not true, check out any urban legend site - or try some of it yourself!

I HAVE NEVER LIKED COLA BEVERAGES BUT AM A DIET 7-UP FINATIC...WOULD IT RUIN MY DIET TO HAVE A CAN OR 2 IN A WEEK?
SHADOWLADY

hi Shadowlady.... I too prefer the clear pops to the cola.. they taste too syrupy and sweet for me... even the diet ones.... I occasionally have a diet 7UP.. but it has aspartame in it which can cause some people to stall.... are you using aspartame in anything else? If you are and still losing weight then the diet pop will probably not hinder your loss... but plain ole water is the best thing for ya that is why I only occasionally have pop..

I actually love Ice Tea in the summer time, but now sure if the unsweetened kind or diet ones are okay for LC...

sorry to say, but the Cola things also apply to modt soda pops. That doesn't make coke better, but it's not as bad as it seems.

Copied from http://www.snopes2.com/

Origins: Many of the entries above are just simple household tips involving Coca-Cola. That you can cook and clean with Coke is relatively meaningless from a safety standpoint -- you can use a wide array of common household substances (including water) for the same purposes; that doesn't necessarily make them dangerous. The fact is that all carbonated soft drinks contain carbonic acid, which is moderately useful for tasks such as removing stains and dissolving rust deposits (although plain soda water is much better for such purposes than Coca-Cola or other soft drinks, as it doesn't leave a sticky sugar residue behind). Carbonic acid is relatively weak, however, and people have been drinking carbonated water for many years with no detrimental effects.

The rest of the claims offered here are, in a word, stupid. Coca-Cola does contain small amounts of citric acid (from the orange, lemon, and lime oils in its formula) and phosphoric acid. However, all the insinuations about the dangers these acids might pose to people who drink Coca-Cola ignore a simple concept familiar to any first-year chemistry student: concentration. Coca-Cola contains less citric acid than orange juice does, and the concentration of phosphoric acid in Coke is far too small (a mere 11 to 13 grams per gallon of syrup, or about 0.20 to 0.30 per cent of the total formula) to harm anyone, no matter how much Coke he guzzles. The only people who proffer the ridiculous statements that Coca-Cola will dissolve a steak, a tooth, or a nail in a matter of days are people who have never actually tried any of these things, because they just don't happen. (Anyone who conducts these experiments will find himself at the end of two days with a whole tooth, a whole nail, and one very soggy t-bone.)

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.

And if you want to really ban a substance, please have a look at this. We really should go and ban Dihydrogen Monoxide.

http://www.dhmo.org/

Hey all!
There was a discussion on this before: Diet Soda vs. Water

Linda