Experts say woman's 2-gallon-a-day Coca-Cola habit likely contributed to death

[lenny]

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Experts say a New Zealand woman's 2-gallon-a-day Coca-Cola habit probably contributed to her death, a conclusion that led the soft-drink giant to note that even water can be deadly in excessive amounts.

Natasha Harris, a 30-year-old, stay-at-home mother of eight from Invercargill, died of a heart attack in February 2010.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/experts-zealand-womans-2-gallon-day-coca-cola-132116143.html

 

[Alix Turner]

30 cigarettes and 8 litres of coke a day?
+1 vote for most unique suicide of 2012

 

[luvsdaty]

think i read somewere that you'd have to drink 21 litres in a sitting in order for it to be lethal? gonna google it & see if it's true.consuming 1.8 litres in a single sitting can prove fatal for someone on a low sodium diet? Hmmmmmmmmmm.

 

[Oldfart]

I nominate her for a Darwin award.

 

[storm rider]

I heard this tidbit on the radio this morning and I quickly worked it out be the = to drinking 12 cases of Coke per day every day 7 days week...throw in the 30 smokes a day (I am surprised it was not 90 a day) and also the total lack of any type of a nutritional diet and it is no wonder she died from this.......kind of similar to the guy who made the documentary "Supersize Me" where he only ate at Mcdonalds for 6 months straight for 3 meals a day....since I saw that film I only eat at Mcdonalds and other fast food places if I have no other choice due to time...but I refuse to eat Arby's at all cost.

My worst binge for soda was kind of bad....myself and a friend worked our way through 11 litres of Coke...2 litres of Hawaiian Punch and 2 litres of Scweppes Dry Grape ginger ale in the course of 6 hours...we also consumed about 14 butterfinger chocolate bars and 6 packs of cigarettes between us.....pretty gross and sloth-full I will say but in our defense we were both as high as a kite from dropping LSD......and I will say the gut rot at the end of the trip was fucking brutal.

SR