Just a few comments on this "interesting read":
Ethylene glycol is approved by the FDA for food use, however the FDA lists
ethylene glycol as an unused food additive, meaning that no food under FDA
jurisdiction (that includes Coke) uses it in a quantity that would even
require the ingredient be included on the ingredient list (current as of
1998). While ethylene glycol is the active ingredient in antifreeze and can
cause metabolic acidosis, a full grown person would have to ingest a whole
lot of Coke, much more than four liters, to create an effect from ethylene
glycol. You would be much more likely to have acidosis from the carbon
dioxide in the Coke.
Breathing carbon dioxide produces carbonic acid in the blood, so you are
ingesting something that is already in significant quantites in the
bloodstream.
It is true that soft drinks do have an acidic pH, but citric juices, salsa,
and some sour foods have lower pHs. The pH of you stomach is around pH 1 and
several enzymes in your gut won't function above pH 4.
Also, according to the opinion written below, a person should not consume
anything under 37C, or for that matter anything above 37C which would begin
to denature some enzymes thus making them inactive. This is utter
foolishness. First off the internal temperature of your body quickly warms
up or cools down anything that enters your body (otherwise you would fall
over dead after breathing outside on a cold day). In addition, digestive
enzymes have a range of temperatures and conditions (or at least as far as
your gut is concerned) under which they will function.
Hmmmm....I wonder what precentage of deaths have been caused by Coke?
Perhaps we should stop eating all together given the fact that even water is
considered a toxic substance under certain conditions. Ask any other
toxicologist, we will all tell you the same thing, find out what you are
talking about before you start spouting some of this "interesting" material
especially on a mailing list DEDICATED TO JSP TECHNOLOGY.
Laura
PS: I do have some qualifications to back up this opinion including degrees
in chemistry, biology and papers published in toxicology journals.
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yeah yeah sure, and I suppose I could get my kidneys stolen by an armless
boy with cancer in north Dakota if I don't forward this on to 600 people
within the next seven seconds...
rr
PS really, I beleive it, really I do...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Khem Chand Sachdeva [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 7:06 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: interesting read
>
>
> Hi All
>
> I ran into this article while going thru' our company's news group
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>
> Have a look at the wrapper on a
> Coca-Cola 1.5 litre bottle and in the ingredients label you will find
> phosphoric acid in it. Minute quantities of ethylene glycol
> is also used
>
> (which is acknowledged in the soft drink world for making it really
> chill").
> This is popularly known as anti-freeze which prevents water from
> freezing at
> 0 deg C and instead drops it by 4-5 degrees with minute quantities.
>
> This chemical is a known slow poison in the caliber of arsenic. So, if
> you
> manage to drink about 4 litres of Coke within an hour or so, you can
> die.
>
> Read along and give up these dangerous things. Be natural, have
> flavoured
> milks, tender coconuts, butter milk, lassi and plain water instead of
> these
> "soft" drinks. Guess what's the pH for soft drinks, e.g. Coke? pH 3.4!
> This
> acidity is strong enough to dissolve teeth and bones! Our human body
> stops
> building bones at the age of about 30. Soft drinks do not have any
> nutrition value (in terms of vitamins &minerals). It is high in sugar
> content, carbonic acid, chemicals i.e.colorings etc.
>
> Some like to take cold soft drinks after each meal. Guess what's the
> impact? Our body needs an optimum temperature of 37 degrees
> Celsius for
> digestive enzyme functioning. The temperature of cold soft drinks is
> very
> much below 37 degrees or even close to 0 degrees Celsius. This will
> dilute
> the enzymes & stress the digestive system.The food taken will not be
> digested. In fact it will be fermented! The fermented food produces
> gases,decays and becomes toxin, gets absorbed by the intestine,
> circulates
> in the blood stream and is carried to the whole body. Hence toxin is
> cumulated in other parts of the body, developing into various
> diseases.
>
> Think before you drink coke/Pepsi (or any soft drink) again. Have you
> ever
> thought what you drink when you drink an aerated drink? You gulp down
> carbon dioxide, when nobody in the world would advise you to
> drink CO2.
> Two
> months back, there was a competition at Delhi University - Who could
> drink
> the most Coke?" The winner drank 8 bottles and fainted on the spot-too
> much
> CO2 in the blood. Thereafter, the principal banned all soft
> drinks from
> the
> college canteen ! While this might have been an extreme measure, the
> results do provide some food for thought.
>
> Did you know that soft drinks use chemicals in them that cause immense
> harm
> to you. Someone put a broken tooth in a bottle of Pepsi and in 10 days
> it
> DISSOLVED! Can you believe it? Teeth and bones are the only
> human parts
> that stay intact for years after death. Imagine what the drink must be
> doing to your soft intestines and stomach lining! Request to All :
> Forward
> this message to your friends to increase the awareness of the great
> "Assumed soft drinks". In India, people hesitate to pay Rs.7-8/- for a
> tender coconut but prefer to pay Rs. 10/- and drink these deadful
> products.
>
> cheer up no thumps up
> khem,
>
>
>
>
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