I heard that they use Coca Cola Light for balseming (or whatever, something with death people) and that it can be harmfull for people to drink it. I'm familiar with the "it can disolve rust and other things" myths that are proven false. But what about this one. Is it a myth or is it the truth?

I don't know what "balseming" is.

I think he means embalming? When you preserve the bodies of the dead. Mummifying.

hey, at least when you're dead you can have a refreshing drink. Seriously though this sounds highly doubtful. Who would use a soft drink for embalming?

Embalming is a specific, regulated practice(at least in the U.S.) The solutions used for this are standardized and approved. Coca-Cola is not, nor will ever be, one of them.

The sweetener used in light drinks is proven to increase hunger. I also believe that studies have shown an increased risk of cancer due to the sweetener, and it is just as likely to cause diabetes.

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Will have to E-mail this to Mythbusters!

Diet Cola's include aspartame. When aspartame is heated to the boiling point, it turns into formaldehyde, which is a key ingredient for the liquid that creates the embalming process. This is true, and studies have proven that this can lead to brain rot, or higher chances of cancer.

Dude.
I gotta try boiling Coca Cola light someday.

I'm glad that I like to drink Dr. Pepper!

It's also really good for your lawn supposedly-makes it nice and really green. I also heard that it is bad for your liver.

I prefer beer. Cheers!

The high levels of sodium (salt) in light drinks actually cause the cells to hold more water. Water retention is a form of weight gain.

And I have heard that the formaldehyde can cause MS-like symptoms.

In the inner cities here people put formaldehyde over mint leaves and sell it in "nickle bags" as a form of angel dust known as "wet". I took a bag off a kid who was out off-roading and did not know what is was. A state trooper later explained it to me. That has to be a nasty way to wreck your body. Also I worked with a guy that barely ate but drank 2 liters of diet Coke like it was water. He musta weighed 300 pounds.

Lapi'che

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Coke does break loose rust. Many farmers including myself keep a spray bottle of it around for breaking loose tie rod ends and altenator brackets on tractors. I also opened a frozen Stevens shotgun with it.


Lapi'che

I don't think it's true. They sell it in Mexico, but I've never tried it.


btw-

I am pretty sure it is an ingredient in the nutrasweet in the diet coke which can turn into formaldehyde, which causes MS-like symptoms...heard that years ago now so I wouldn't know where to locate a link...

Coca cola or any soft drink is hard on the body refined sugar products contain no nutrients , they can lead to poor bone health, diabetes, bad teeth kidney problems, sugars are very bad for the body, do you know most kids lose there baby teeth by the age of 6 if they have baby teeth for long sugar literally rots teeth. When food has been refined what that menas is it has no enzymes to be able to digest it so it uses stored enzymes and eventually if you aren't replacing what is being used all kinds of health issues can ensue most health issues IMO are diet related sometimes from not drinking enough water that can cause so many problems i am a vegetarian and am currently studing nutrition, its a serious issue and should not be taken lightly. I think it causes alot of learning problems for kids too. any kind of preservatives lead to allergies skin conditions allergic reactions or unexplained swelling are connected to preservatives. Its a very good idea to use natural organic foods as much as possible adding seaweed into the diet once a week detoxifies the body and lots of water .You can Pm me on any nutrtion questions Namaste Sheri

thats cause kids often dont brush there teeth, i've been a soft drink guy for.... I guess about a decade now. and I havent had one single cavity and have fine oral health.

i always knew coca-cola light tasted wierd...

it also works great for getting rid of corosion on your battery cable connectors. it eats that sh*t up like it was home made pie.

if you MUST have a soda then drink the real thing, skip the diet, as stated earlier it's worse for you even in regards to weight issues

This is not good. I drink far too much Coke.

Nutrasweet, really is just Aspartame. A lot of products contain aspartame, and I do my best to avoid it. I find the biggest aspartame products are cola's, and gum.

Its true. My Spanish teacher feeds coke to her spider plant that she has in her room. Its been alive for all the years I've had her and its really nice and green.

wow.... im never drinking cola light again....

i'm switching to fruit juice.

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The sweetener used in light drinks is proven to increase hunger. I also believe that studies have shown an increased risk of cancer due to the sweetener, and it is just as likely to cause diabetes.

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Is known as Aspartam, and this "diet" sweetner acctually makes you amug other things fat-

Aspartame is a commercially produced sugar substitute made from:

50% phenylalanine (an essential amino acid)
40% aspartic acid (a nonessential amino acid)
10% methyl alcohol (wood alcohol, which is a precursor to formaldehyde).

Aspartame (Equal® or Nutra-Sweet®) was accidentally discovered in 1965 when a chemist licked his fingers to pick up a sheet of paper and noticed a sweet taste. He had been working with two amino acids, phenylalanine and aspartic acid. On their own, neither has a sweet taste, yet, when combined, the two produced a sweetening that is 200 times greater than that of table sugar, while having virtually no calories.

Dieters Beware
Hoping to lose weight, millions of people turn to diet products. However, aspartame actually increases the cravings for carbohydrates and sugar. This is how.

The use of artificial sweeteners robs the body of the needed sugar for brain function, causing it to scream out through cravings. When a sweet taste hits the tongue, a message is sent to the hypothalamus warning of the incoming sugar. The message is then forwarded to the pancreas to secrete insulin in preparation. In the case of artificial sweeteners, which are significantly sweeter than sugar, no sugar arrives. The secreted insulin does its job by lowering the blood sugar, even though there is no sugar to compensate for the lowering. The lowered blood sugar level drops even more to where the brain can no longer function, causing lethargy and faintness. Fainting spells, dizziness, and seizures are common, along with pounding headaches.



Dangers Known Since 1969
Studies done by Dr. Harry Waisman in 1969 were deleted when aspartame was first submitted to the FDA. His studies showed that after 300 days on aspartame, one of his lab monkeys died and five others had grand mal seizures. Later research revealed that holes developed in the brains of mice fed aspartame.

The following year, cyclamates were banned and saccharin suddenly developed a tainted reputation, just in time for aspartame to come into favor. Interestingly, shortly after the approval of aspartame in July 1983, Arthur Hayes, the FDA commissioner, resigned and joined aspartame's public relations firm of Burston Marsteller.

Other Dangers
Professor Richard Wurtman of MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) has shown that a number of neurochemical changes take place. In rats, aspartame doubled the levels of phenylalanine in the brain, doubling again when carbohydrates (sugars) were consumed at the same time. This combination raised the levels of tyrosine (derived from phenylalanine) in the brain by over 300%.

The amount of sweetener used in this study equalled amounts consumed by a normal North American child on a hot afternoon in the form of soft drinks, ice cream, ices, etc.



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Well, it might just have everything to do on this thread and tough this is a dead thread i`m about to revive i hope that it will bring some sort of reactions. This is a subject i feel stronglly about and i have for some years now tryed to get this known here in norway-
Many people purches especially candie whit this substitute not nowing that they are poisening the werry same people they where trying to protect from to much sugar or fat etc etc... I`m glad to know that in my local supermaked, they have taken this seriouslly and rethinking their diet.


you can offcorse google it if not, here is a good source to begin with

http://www.innvista.com/HEALTH/nutrition/diet/saspart.htm

Thanks for the info. Any of that stuff makes me sick. It really is not good for you.

Link
Aspartic acid is an Excitotoxin

Drink water.

Aspartame in diet coke is broken down into formaldehyde and methanol by the digestive system. Someone mentioned before that formaldehyde is used for embalming (i think). I believe that both formaldehyde and methanol can be used to preserve things, like the weird animals in a jar your science teacher stored at the back of the class room. That might be where the legend comes from.

On a side note: someone mentioned that aspartame causes brain rot and weight gain. Aspartame has many side effects within the body and is often reffered to as the most toxic food additive known to man. A quick search on google will return a plethora of web sites devoted to the topic.

Apologies for thread jacking

Spuzzdawg

Edit: missed that someone had posted this info before me

Those statemens about Coca Light will never affect me cause I haaate any kind of soda that is "light"
It's kinda ironic, since most sodas say their "light" ones taste exactly the same as the normal ones.

Drink beer.

Aspartame is broken down in to Aspartic acid, Phenylalanine and Methanol. Methanol is then broken down into Formaldehyde. Formaldehyde is broken down into Formic acid which can damage your eyes.

true

Just remember that the first three letters in diet drinks spell DIE! That should be enough to convince you.

think he means embalming

Is it really dangerous?

I mean, table salt is comprised of two things that are toxic to humans alone...don't eat salt?
Does the compound actually break down into formaldehyde in the digestive system? If so, is there really anything dangerous in having it there?

Any cases of people dying from diet pop alone?

No the methonal in aspartame in broken down into formaldehyde

another thing that coke is good for is the curing of diahorreah. I was once told that if you get the trots coke contains the same ingredients as anti diahorreah tablets. Anyways i got the sh*ts a while later and tried the coke and it worked. By the way the coke has to be flat for some strange reason so take the top off and leave it for a while. It works i swear, i drank a flat 1litre bottle of coke and the diahorreah went pronto!!

"Coke is friend not drink..."
"wait it's not a drink??? AHHH"
lol sorry im obsessed with coke

*drinks pepsi max*Hmm,never heard of this one.I've heard of coke rusting a nail,but i've never heard of using it to preserve the dead.

I understand that it will if you put a small piece of steak or meat in it,the meat will disinigrate.
I am trying to avoid all sodas right now.If I drink any in the future it will be more than likely ginger ale or rootbeer.
best to stay away from the stuff completey.I sometimes make Kool-Aid, but use real sugar and of course tea as well.
Seems like nothing is safe to eat anymore.

So, no one has mensioned about chewing gum, all of them contains a lot of aspartame it is believed that they are more harmfull then cola or beverages.

:"Aspartame in chewing gum is absorbed directly though the buccal mucosa of the tongue, mouth, and gums, making it a far worse poisoning than even if it were given intravenously. The nerves serving this area and their vascular supply derive directly from the brain, so the Aspartame absorbed through them goes directly into the brain, by passing the spinal cord and blood brain barrier.
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I know that coke and diet (light) coke can be used to artificially age documents. The regular is very acidic, so it's much harder to get right, but both will give you a nice effect.

All the manufactured sodas are composed of weird chemicals that are 'exposed' through various websites and medical groups that float around dispensing information about how harmful they are routinely. High fructose corn syrup, which is the primary in all the recipes, is a subsidized nothing additive that has no nutritional value and serves as an empty calorie filler. Studies have found that the human body has a negative reaction to it and holds fat, resulting in expanding waist sizes. Aspartame is even more widely vilified and various groups have come forward to link it to cancers and all other sorts of problems.

Drink water. At least with the American versions of that, you'll only be exposed to blood thinners and anti-anxiety medicines. And really, who doesn't want to relax and lower their blood pressure with cool, refreshing, water?Click to view attachment

Wow, as disturbing as all this is. . .I'm still drinking my diet dr. pepper. . .hmmm. . . I think I have a blatant disregard for my health. . . what about things sweetened with splenda?

I thought they disproved the rust thing on mythbusters? I can't remember. . .I wasn't really paying too much attention. . .

All these scientific explanation and stuff made it a catch up for me because I didnt take science during high school.