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Interestingly, my go-to hangover/nausea remedy has always been Coca Cola. I had no idea that OTC anti-nausea medication also contains phosphoric acid, or that it was even an antiemetic (or not, as it seems). I've always put it down to the fact that Coca Cola is very effective at washing out the taste of vomit.
For context on the Mexican cola, US cola had sugar as well until the mid 1980s. The US sugar program restricts imports and keeps the domestic price for sugar high, which created a new market for milling corn into HFCS. HFCS is uniquely an American invention that's the result of massive government subsidies for corn and price support for sugar. If the government did not intervene in American sugar markets, cola would…
For context on the Mexican cola, US cola had sugar as well until the mid 1980s. The US sugar program restricts imports and keeps the domestic price for sugar high, which created a new market for milling corn into HFCS. HFCS is uniquely an American invention that's the result of massive government subsidies for corn and price support for sugar. If the government did not intervene in American sugar markets, cola would…
Unlike the USA, Mexico has warnings on their Coke and Pepsi, about excess calories and how it is not meant for children.
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Sounds like allergy. (I am not a physician. This is not medical advice.) Difference in trace constituents, triggering allergy, is completely plausible. But either way, it is the fructose identical in both that is actually poisoning you.
Nah, more like I can feel the side effects of hfcs more easily. I can still eat it and be fine, just have that plus a bit of indigestion.
For myself, I get tiny blisters on the backs of my hands and neck from cranberries. And, onions make my sinuses bleed. Indigestion is more common.
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Your stomach pH is consistently monitored and buffered by the feedback mechanisms in your body. Depending on your sensitivities, infusing a large amount of acidity all at once can absolutely cause stomach issues.
Coca-colas have a pH of 2.4 to 3 [1]. Stomach acid's pH is 1.5 to 3.5 [2]. So coca-cola has acidity that is very close to that of stomach acid. Water's pH is around 7. I am no doctor, but wouldn't that suggest that drinking water will unbalance stomach's acidity worse than coca-cola will? [1] https://www.ada.org/en/~/media/ADA/Public%20Programs/Files/J... [2] https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/003883.htm
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Death is death.
Explain your reasoning for mentioning covid vs. car accident, cancer or heart attack.
Car accidents are not seen as a current public health emergency meriting massive interventions; and anyway cause way too few deaths to make a meaningful comparison.
[1] Temporary myocardial inflammation notwithstanding
There is nothing harmless about liquid fructose, or liquid sugar (which is half fructose). The people who know the most about fructose blame it for the huge public health crisis that the US (and UK, Pakistan, India, and some other countries) are suffering, manifested as insulin resistance and type #2 diabetes, "metabolic syndrome". It kills way more than COVID. Specifically: fructose is mostly processed only by the l…
>fructose absorption is delayed long enough that gut bacteria get most of it Have a reference for this? Seems implausible, bacterial fermentation of any sugar in the intestines should result in distress, i.e. the same symptoms a lactose intolerant person would have upon drinking milk.
For context on the Mexican cola, US cola had sugar as well until the mid 1980s. The US sugar program restricts imports and keeps the domestic price for sugar high, which created a new market for milling corn into HFCS. HFCS is uniquely an American invention that's the result of massive government subsidies for corn and price support for sugar. If the government did not intervene in American sugar markets, cola would…
And recent studies show HFCS alters the folds in your gut, lengthening them. This increased surface area significantly increases the amount of calories your intestines can extract from the same volume of food.
>The research, published August 18 in Nature, focused on the effect of a high-fructose diet on villi, the thin, hairlike structures that line the inside of the small intestine. Villi expand the surface area of the gut and help the body to absorb nutrients, including dietary fats, from food as it passes through the digestive tract. The study found that mice that were fed diets that included fructose had villi that were 25 percent to 40 percent longer than those of mice that were not fed fructose. Additionally, the increase in villus length was associated with increased nutrient absorption, weight gain and fat accumulation in the animals.[0]
[0] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/08/210818135218.h...
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As a kid in the 70's growing up in Scotland we were given Lucozade (long before the "energy drink" fad) and quite often Ferguzade (a similar product but made in Scotland) when we were ill. Both had pretty odd tastes back then, almost salty if I remember.
I don't remember Lucozade being anything _but_ a drink for recovery from illness. (Remember the yellow cellophane wrapped bottles?!) I have no idea how it attained this reputation. These days, Lucozade Sport (in multiple flavours) has taken over, but being "isotonic", presumably has various salts.
I see that nowdays even the sugar-free lucozade is advertised as an energy drink, I'm not sure quite how that works, though!
Is it just me or does soda taste better out of a can than out of a plastic bottle? I’ve felt this for many years and have even tested by pouring into glasses. I like the can one better. Is this just me?
Highly scientific test: https://youtu.be/Hzat3Sv1Vwg