JCpatriots wrote:

Six liters a day, which you say you drink now (which is actually believable), is still a disgusting amount and way the hell too much to be drinking in a day. I used to drink a shitload of soda, about 2 liters a day on average at my worst. I can't even imagine 3 times that. That was basically getting up every few minutes, filling my cup, drinking it and then getting up about 15 minutes after I finished to grab another cup for a few hours of the day after I got home from school. I hardly ever touch soda anymore, unless it's the only thing in my house. Drinking soda makes you feel good for the slight jolt of caffeine you get, but as soon as you don't have it, you feel like crap. It feels good not to be so dependent on it and to drink things that are a lot better for you.


I still don't believe your "I drank 12-18 liters a day" story, because it's flat out a lie; that's almost 3-5 gallons of soda. However, I'll play along and pretend you did. The caffeine was bad on your heart, but so would have been everything else, especially the sodium levels, as it has about 60 mg in a 20 oz bottle of Diet Pepsi (a human body really only needs about 500 to 1,000 mg a day to survive, though a 2,000 calorie diet lists the daily value at about 2,400 mg because almost everyone has more than 1,000 a day, because everything we eat these days has salt in it). So in that 12 liters you supposedly drank a day, that's just slightly over half of the recommended daily intake of sodium in just liquids (1,216 mg), and in these 18 liters you supposedly drank, it's about 3/4 of that (1,825 mg).


Most of the sodium content we get comes from our foods. I'd say probably like 80ish percent of it in a day comes from food. Not only did the caffeine and all the preservatives and shit that's added to soda probably cause long term health issues, you would have been eating probably about 4,000 mg worth of sodium per day. Too much sodium can cause high blood pressure, heart disease, upon countless other major health problems. However, now that I think of it, you're probably kind of lucky that it did have some sodium in it. You probably would have killed yourself from water intoxication, where your body washes all the salt out of it's system from excessive liquid consumption, if it didn't.





That is what is called a really bad caffeine addiction. Getting agitated and physically and mentally needing it is not good. Caffeine addiction is a bitch, and you REALLY should stop drinking as much soda as you do. Six liters a day is absolutely disgusting. You really should slowly wean yourself off of Pepsi and caffeinated products and starting drinking some healthier shit before you fuck up your health.

JCpatriots wrote:

I'm sorry, but I don't believe that. A 20 oz bottle of Pepsi contains 250 calories in it. At a 12-18 liter rate a day, you'd be consuming anywhere from 5,070 to 7,605 calories in liquids alone*, as well as consuming the equivalent of 1,400 to 2,100 grams of SUGAR PER DAY not to mention what is added on in foods during the day. This would likely kill you in a very short period of time or probably give you like instant diabetes. You'd be consuming anywhere from probably 6,000 to 8,500 calories in total daily adding in food consumption, which I find nearly impossible to believe for someone your size. You would weigh TONSSSS. You'd have to exercise insane amounts (or have like a life-threateningly high metabolism) to keep that weight off. The Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps I've heard consumes about 4,000 - 6,000 a day, but he's able to burn it all off and stay in shape because of his intense workouts. Also, a liter of coke around here usually goes for like $1.50. You'd be spending $18 to $27 a day on soda alone.


If it's Diet or Pepsi Zero or something, then disregard everything I said about calories and sugars above. However, this is still incredibly unhealthy. I still have an extremely hard time believing it, regardless. At my worst (and I drank soda like religiously at one point), I was maybe drinking maybe about 2 liters a day, which was bad enough. 9 to 12 times that is just unbelievable to me. You're drinking about the eqivalent of a 20 oz bottle of soda every hour all day long (24 hours, assuming you were to stay up all day). Assuming you're up 16 hours out of the day, you're drinking more than a liter per hour every hour you're awake.


(*There are 33.8 ounces (oz) in a liter. 33.8 oz in a liter / 20 oz in a regulation coke bottle = 1.69 bottles of coke equivalent to a liter. Therefore, 1.69 coke bottles x 250 calories in a 20 oz coke bottle = 422.5 calories in a liter of coke. Multiply that figure by 12 and you come out with 5,070 calories in 12 liters of coke, or 7,605 in 18 liters of coke.)

Lachlan wrote:

Whenever I drink coke I can just feel it eroding away my teeth... how you can drink heaps of the stuff day in day out beats me :confused:

jaaaaake wrote:

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