DISCLAIMER: I’m not sure if any of this is true or not. A friend of mine sent this to me in an email and I thought it was VERY interesting stuff!
WATER
1. 75% of Americans are chronically dehydrated. (Most likely applies to half the world population)
2. In 37% of Americans, the thirst mechanism is so weak that it is 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 University of 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 drink every day?
COKE
1. In many states the highway patrol carries two gallons of Coke in the trunk 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.
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 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 the 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 INFORMATION:
1. The active ingredient in Coke is phosphoric acid. It will dissolve a nail in about four days. Phosphoric acid also leaches calcium from bones and is a major contributor to the rising increase of osteoporosis.
2. To carry Coca-Cola syrup! (the concentrate) the commercial trucks must use hazardous material place cards reserved for highly corrosive materials.
3. The distributors of Coke have been using it to clean engines of the trucks for about 20 years!
Now the question is, would you like a glass of water?
Or Coke?
I think I’m going to do some experiments. I’m going to start with the toilets and see if it cleans that. Then I may move on to the ham. I’ll use any excuse to bake a ham.
Do any of you know if these are true?
15 users commented in " Water or Coke? "
Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackAnd what’s the evidence for all of this?
No sources = more internet fud.
Makes me real glad that I gave up my minimum of 1 Double Gulp habit a few years back and now just partake on special occasions. I have to agree. I started feeling a lot better once I was drinking water, usually two 32oz cups a day.
am i right in guessing you people work for coke?
Nope. Most of the Coke things are false. Like the T-Bone steak thing – even if you put a tiny tiny bit of meat in a thing of coke it won’t be gone in a WEEK much less overnight much less a whole steak.
As per previous commenters, can we have back up for these ‘facts’.
I don’t disbelieve all of them, but wouldn’t repeat them til sure they were fact.
The Mythbusters busted every single item on the Coke list(except the baking of a ham, that one might be true). This is just BS being spread around by simpletons who lack a basic understanding of chemistry. Even in highly concentrated amounts neither citric acid nor phosphoric acid are powerful enough to dissolve metal, the idea that a very dilute solution containing them would do it is foolish. The only action that Coke might have on grease would be the bubbling action of the carbonation helping to loosen things, but then you have to contend with everything being sticky when it dries.
The long and short of it is this: This exact post has been passing around the world since the very first days of online community. I remember seeing it on CompuServ in the late 80s, on AOL in the 90s, and now on random blogs in the 2000s. It’s complete bunk, posting it only proves that you lack intelligence and are gullible enough to believe any BS “a friend” tells you.
I don’t know specifics but I know that being even a little dehydrated is the cause of many daily ailments, particularly headaches. I always reach for a glass of water before I hit the drugs and usually the problem is solved. Any nutritionist will agree that Coke is bad for you, but I don’t know about all of those stats. I HAVE seen it used on garage floors to clean up grease spots and yes, it did the trick.
Holy cow Donna, who are all those people commenting on your blog?!
Did you notice that number 4 in the water info was from the University of Washington? I did that. On my lunch break. It’s just something I do, you know, in my spare time.
I have to pee now.
Oh–I saw in our paper how you Virginians aren’t allowed to smile in your driver’s license photos. Like a mug shot?! Do you hold up numbers under your face and stare blankly at the camera moments after declaring, “But I didn’t do it! I’m innocent! I need a phone call!” **click**
I’m bored.
I’m really sorry that the coke stuff isn’t true. I have a stained bathtub I need to clean…
FROM YOU I HAVE BEEN ABSENT! Im sorry – work became… well work people and decided to dissaprove of us using their internet, so I had to go out and get my own. ugh, that was time consuming. so – IM BACK BABY! maybe not blogging myself, but im here, im reading this, catching up and saying that I missed you dammit!!
The coke in the tiolet thing did work – have used it before… my ex and i had a place, construction workers used the bathrooms… it was bad. bad bad bad.
xxx
I prefer water.
y’ KNOW lots of this stuff was disproven on mythbusters. Get some real sources.
As a parplegic, I use a latex leg bag and a ondom catheter to catch my pee. I usually use some phosphoric acid to clean my bag so that it smells clean and fresh.
I think I’ll try soaking it in some Coke next time.
Thanks!
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