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Originally posted by gekko
If the acids were actually harmful to us, we would all be dead.
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Exactly. Your stomach utilizes acid for you to be able to digest food anyway (Relatively strong acid, mind you).
As for what it can do to you... Well, definately your teeth, mostly likely the ulcer thing, but as far as kidney troubles/diabetes are concerned... Well, things are hazy.
If you don't drink enough water, you run the risk of kidney troubles anyway. So basically, Coke can harm your kidneys by way of the fact that you drink it instead of water, thus keeping yourself from the amount of water you should be taking in (And although pop [soda] has water in it, it doesn't count that way. There's too much other junk in it). As for diabetes... No one really knows yet. Some people drink lots of pop and get diabetes, and some people drink lots of pop and get nothing. It's still a very grey area.
As for Coke doing all that stuff to metalic substances... My ass. Coke doesn't make pennies shiney (I've tried...), doesn't eat up nails, or do any of that other ridiculous stuff in that list (Well, at least not most of it). Though it may be acidic, and drinking several cans of it first thing in the morning (every day) without first having something to eat may (key word there) eventually (another key word) lead to an ulcer, the stuff isn't like drinking battery acid or something.
Just another example of someone with too much free time on their hands letting their imagination run free.
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