Does somebody knows how BAD coca cola is for your health?

Question

I heard that you can use coca cola for cleaning bathrooms?!

Answer 1

It is so bad for you. It's bad for your kidneys, liver, teeth and bones.

Answer 2

There are lots and lots of urban myths surrounding Coca-Cola, most are not true. First off lets examine your myth. The point of cleaning a bathroom would be to kill germs, and sanitize surfaces. Coca-cola has no ingredients that kill bacteria, and actually contains lots of sugars that bacteria love to live on. So that is out. Coca-cola is a brown, sugary liquid. If you used this liquid to sanitize surfaces the surfaces would at the end be covered in a brown sticky film. Is this what you would want to find in a clean bathroom? Think with your brain before typing. It is high in sugar, and high in caffeine, however it's leading compettitor Pepsi-cola has three times the sugar content of Coca-cola, and more than double the sugar content. So if Coca-cola is bad somehow, Pepsi-cola is the devil.

Answer 3

I love coca cola. Lots of food products can also be used a cleaning agents. and who gives a poop. I like the way it tastes. Especially at a college football game, in a stadium cup, over ice. Whats wrong with you Coke haters. Nobody told you to live off the stuff but if the air is right have a coke. crap, have a coke and a smile.

Answer 4

It is very bad for you, it can ruin your liver if you drink it in big quantities. I had a friend who needed a surgery and doctors asked him if he was an alchoholic because his liver was badly damaged, and he used to drink about a liter of coca cola every day.
If you leave a tooth in coca-cola over night the enamel will completely dissolve!
Drinking any kind of soda on a regular basis increses your chances of developing kidney stones.

Answer 5

The acid in your stomach is at a higher concentration than the acid in the coke so it's not gonna eat through your stomach or anything lol. I'm not trying to say that it's good for you, because any kind of soft drink really isn't. All that sugar. Terrible for your teeth too. Kinda funny - as I'm typing this I'm drinking Dr. Pepper. Mmm!!!

Answer 6

Yes you can use Coca Cola for cleaning. The acid in the cola eat just about anything.

Answer 7

Put a tooth in a glass of coca-cola and watch it disintegrate over several days/weeks. It's bad for the skin, makes you put on weight....I could go on.. Stop drinking that stuff

Answer 8

Dispelling Coke Use Mythology
Ah, Coke mythology! Actually, nearly everyone of these items has been debunked.

In many states the highway patrol carries two gallons of Coke in the trunk to remove blood from the highway after a car accident. FALSE. No one who has investigated this message has been able to locate any highway patrol unit that carries Coke for blood removal. As one research said, "Plain water would be as effective and less costly for cleaning pavement." It would certainly leave a nice sticky mess on the pavement that would have to be rinsed off with - you guessed it - WATER. Just use water in the first place! If anyone ever finds a highway patrol unit spending money on Coke and claiming it's for blood removal, turn 'em in and tell them to buy their Cokes with their own money.

You can put a T-bone steak in a bowl of coke and it will be gone in two days. FALSE. Try the experiment yourself. Loads of people have. It does not work. The steak will get very mushy from the liquid and it will tenderize. It won't dissolve.

To clean a toilet: Pour a can of Coca-Cola into the toilet bowl...Let the "real thing" sit for one hour, then flush clean. FALSE. Coke will be a poor china cleaner. The only cleaning properties in Coke is the carbonic acid (which will cause a bit of foaming) and the small amount of citric acid (a known cleaner helper). However, the carmel coloring and sugar will not be helpful. Besides, since when does a liquid adhere to the sides of the bowl? It doesn't. Anyone can tell you that carmel coloring stains. You'd do better with plain baking soda or clear, sugar free soda water. This has also been tried with poor results.

The citric acid in Coke removes stains from vitreous china. SAME.

To remove rust spots from chrome car bumpers: Rub the bumper with a crumpled-up piece of Reynolds Wrap aluminum foil dipped in Coca-Cola. Dip the aluminum in any liquid, or again, in baking soda charged water. Better than leaving yourself with a sticky mess.

To clean corrosion from car battery terminals: Pour a can of Coca-Cola over the terminals to bubble away the corrosion. Same to same. It's the soda, so any form of foaming soda will work. Again, better than leaving yourself with a sticky mess to clean up.

To loosen a rusted bolt: Applying a cloth soaked in Coca-Cola to the rusted bolt for several minutes. Same to same. However, further down I provide a link by a young lady who thought she'd try these things as an experiment. She says that numbers 3 - 7 don't work at all.

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. Of course Coke is great for ham. The soda and citric acid help in tenderizing, while the sugar and flavorings penetrate the ham and make it taste good. In Texas, we used Dr. Pepper instead. We also used it for roast and for brisket. I thought this anti-coke missive was supposed to be dissing Coke, but here is a yummy use!

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. I'm not about to put a can of sugared, carmel colored liquid in MY wash. Again, the young lady said it didn't work (I didn't think it would). Why leave yourself with sticky clothes that have to be washed again in - you guessed it - WATER! She did say that the windshield idea worked, but that her windshield was then all sticky. Ah, sugar! Use windex or a good windshield washing fluid.

The PH in the phosphorus is actually higher than stated. It won't dissolve a nail (been tried). Lemon juice is far more acidic. Even OJ contains more phosphoric acid than Coke.

Trucks carrying sodas often have to carry haz-mat warnings, but not because the spillage of Coke could be hazardous. The same would be true of beer, champagne, plain soda water, etc., because in all of those, the carbonation is kept in under pressure. You know what happens if a soda can bursts or the champagne cork blows off! Yes, there certainly could be danger.

Coke doesn't use the soda to clean truck engines. They'd have to be crazy to pour all that corn syrup over an engine! What they'd end up with is a sticky engine that will commence to smoking. Next time you see a delivery truck, ask the driver. It's not a good idea anyway to wash an engine unless it’s done by a professional.

The disintegrating tooth idea wouldn't fare any better than the meat or the nail. If Coke can't eat away at a steak, how's it going to do so with a tooth? Also, the message claims that Coke is a good cleaner for toilets and china, then goes on to say that it will eat away a tooth. After the soda cleans it and the soda goes flat, all that will be left is corn syrup, flavorings and colorings. The corn syrup will make the tooth sticky and the colorings will discolor it. That's all.

As to the idea that we're getting aluminum from drinking soda, how come in all these umpteen years that vegetables and everything else under the sun have been canned in aluminum, the writer isn't wondering why we aren't getting aluminum from that? If they're really concerned, they could buy soda only in plastic or glass containers. Would that solve the problem?

If sugar is the cause of arthritis, then just about everyone should have it. Lot's of my friends guzzle sugar and sodas and don't have it

Answer 9

coca cola is very bad

Answer 10

Just think of every coke as half a candy bar. Is it ok to have a snickers? Sure. Is it ok to have a snickers for every between-meal snack--no. Coke is convienent and sometimes becomes my main drink, but it is so much better to have some iced tea, water, milk, or gatorade most of the time.

Answer 11

Try to put a piece of meat inside a coca cola glass and u will see what happens. Anyways i have something for you abt soft drinks:

Michael Murray ND and Joseph Pizzorno ND
Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine, Revised Second Edition

"Soft drinks have long been suspected of leading to lower calcium levels
and higher phosphate levels in the blood. When phosphate levels are high and
calcium levels are low, calcium is pulled out of the bones. The phosphate
content of soft drinks like Coca -Cola and Pepsi is very high, and they
contain virtually no calcium."

"The United States ranks first among countries in soft drink consumption.
The per-capita consumption of soft drinks is in excess of 150 quarts per
year, or about three quarts per week."

"Soft drink consumption in children poses a significant risk factor for
impaired calcification of growing bones."

"Of the fifty-seven children who had low blood calcium levels, thirty-eight
(66.7 percent) drank more than four bottles (12 to 16 ounces per bottle) of
soft drinks per week, but only forty-eight (28 percent) of the 171 children
with normal serum calcium levels consumed as much soft drink S These results
more than support the contention that soft drink consumption leads to lower
calcium levels in children. This situation that ultimately leads to poor
bone mineralization, which explains the greater risk of broken bones in
children who consume soft drinks."

"Soft drink consumption may be a major factor for osteoporosis as they are
high in phosphates but contain virtually no calcium. This leads to lower
calcium levels and higher phosphate levels in the blood. The United States
ranks first among countries for soft drink consumption with a per capita
consumption of approximately 15 ounces a day."

James A Howenstine M.D.
A Physician's Guide to Natural Health Products That Work

"In an interesting experiment the sugar from one soft drink was able to
damage the white blood cells' ability to ingest and kill gonococcal bacteria
for seven hours."

"Soft drinks also contain large quantities of phosphorus, which when
excreted pulls calcium out of the bones. Heavy users of soft drinks will
have osteoporosis along with their damaged arteries."

James Duke PhD
The Green Pharmacy : The Ultimate Compendium Of Natural Remedies From The World's Foremost Authority On Healing Herbs

"And watch out for cola soft drinks, which are very high in bone-dissolving
phosphorus."

Marion Nestle
Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition (see related ebook
on nutrition) and Health (California Studies in Food and Culture)

"Soft drinks are the single greatest source of caffeine in children's
diets; a 12-ounce can of cola contains about 45 milligrams but the amounts
in more potent soft drinks can exceed 100 milligrams< a level approaching
that found in coffee."

"Sugar and acid in soft drinks so easily dissolve tooth enamel."

William Duffy
The doctor speaking in these dialogs is, Dr. McCay, the nutritionist at the
Naval Medical Research Institute.

"I was amazed to learn," he testified, "that the beverage contained
substantial amounts of phosphoric acid. . . . At the Naval Medical Research
Institute, we put human teeth in a cola beverage and found they softened and
started to dissolve within a short periodS The acidity of cola beverages ...
is about the same as vinegar. The sugar content masks the acidity, and
children little realize they are drinking this strange mixture of phosphoric
acid, sugar, caffeine, coloring, and flavoring matter."

You can read more in this link...so scary!