What would happen to someones body if the only liquids they drank were carbonated and caffeinated?

Answer 1

Probably DEHYDRATION, DIABETES, and OBESITY.

Answer 2

Nothing, although if the carbonated drinks were all soft drinks you might get fat and rot your teeth. You might be tired a lot from mild dehydration and caffeine letdown.

Your body can absorb water from even coffee once you are dehydrated. Caffeine stimulates your kidneys, but your body can still absorb water from caffeinated beverages in a pinch.

The above bone depletion is mostly from the phosphoric acid in the soft drinks. Those are worst for your teeth and bones, so check your labels before you attempt a "super-size me."

Answer 3

I can tell you that from my own experiences of drinking a lot of coffee and drinks with a high caffein content that I suffered caffein poisining. It was very scary, and I had to be taken to hospital. The doctor said I was very fortunate to not have a suffered a heart attack or even died. So no more caffein for me period. Everying in moderation.

Answer 4

Presuming you are't talking about plain carbonated water but rather sugary, artifically sweetened, and/ or caffinated sodas.... It would likely deteriorate due to dehydration. Over time one might age more quickly due to this, and would very likely be less healthy than a normal water-drinking person, but you probably won't die immediately.

However, consuming only caffinated/carbonated liquids would be very unhealthy and very hard on your kidneys, and I would strongly recommend against this diet plan.

If one did manage to drink enough caffiene (or deprive themselves of water for long enough) to damage or destroy one's kidneys, that person generally would (unless on dialysis) die within a few days of full renal failure.

Answer 5

Probably relatively little on the carbonated end (we burp it up anyway :) ).

But if all we drank was caffinated beverages we would probably experience dehydration because we would urinate out more water than the drink gave us, which would eventually deplete our body's fluids.

Drink water.

Answer 6

The carbonated drinks make your bones soft and suseptible to rickets and bowl legs.The heightened caffein levels will play hell with your blood pressure too.

Answer 7

Absolutely NOTHING unusual. Complete myth that these things are deadly unhealthy, rot the bones or cause dehydration. Don't listen to the old wives' tales.

http://www.snopes.com/medical/myths/8glasses.asp
http://calorielab.com/news/2006/05/28/8-glasses-of-water-a-diet-urban-legend

Answer 8

The first thing that came to my mind was Patrick from Spongebob Squarepants and the chocolate bars episode, where his belly felt like bubbles. Well I bet that is what will happen, big bubbly stomache.

Answer 9

I read somewhere that carbonated beverages deteriorate bone density. If that is true, then it would cause damage to the skeletal system, making bone fractures more likely.

Answer 10

The human body would become dehydrated, become sick, suffer horrible organ damage, and eventually die.

We need water to survive, without it, we'd be up sewer creek without a paddle.

Answer 11

It depends on their genetics. For some it would have no effect, others could suffer from it. But much like smoking gives some people lung cancer and others have no problems from it at all, it depends on genetics.