My hubby sent this to me and it was kind of fun to read. I thought i would share.........


Water or Coke?

We all know that water is important but I've never seen it written down like
this before.

WATER

1. 75% of Americans are chronically dehydrated.

2. In 37% of Americans, the thirst mechanism is so weak that it is often
mistaken for hunger.

3. Even MILD dehydration will slow down one's metabolism as much as 3%.

4. One glass of water will shut down midnight hunger pangs for almost 100% of
the dieters studied in a University of Washington study.

5. Lack of water, the #1 trigger of daytime fatigue.

6. Preliminary research indicates that 8-10 glasses of water a day could
significantly ease back and joint pain for up to 80% of sufferers.

7. A mere 2% drop in body water can trigger fuzzy short-term memory, trouble
with basic math, and difficulty focusing on the computer screen or on a
printed page.

8. Drinking 5 glasses of water daily decreases the risk of colon cancer by
45%, plus it can slash the risk of breast cancer by 79%, and one is 50% less
likely to develop bladder cancer.

And now for the properties of COKE:

1. In many states (in the USA) the highway patrol carries two gallons of coke
in the truck to remove blood from the highway after a car accident.

2. You can put a T-bone steak in a bowl of coke and it will be gone in two
days.

3. To clean a toilet: Pour a can of Coca-Cola in! to the toilet bowl and let
the "real thing" sit for one hour, then flush clean. The citric acid in Coke
removes stains from vitreous China.

4. To remove rust spots from chrome car bumpers: Rub the bumper with a
rumpled-up piece of Reynolds Wrap aluminum foil dipped in Coca-Cola.

5. To clean corrosion from car battery terminals: Pour a can of Coca-Cola over
the terminals to bubble away the corrosion.

6. To loosen a rusted bolt: Applying a cloth soaked in Coca-Cola to the rusted
bolt for several minutes.

7. To bake a moist ham: Empty a can of Coca-Cola into the baking pan, wrap the
ham in aluminum foil, and bake. Thirty minutes before the ham is finished,
remove the foil, allowing the drippings to mix with the Coke for a sumptuous
brown gravy.

8. To remove grease from clothes: Empty a can of coke into a load of greasy
clothes, add detergent, and run through a regular cycle. The Coca-Cola will
help loosen grease stains.

9. It will also clean road haze from your windshield.

For Your Info:

1. The active ingredient in Coke is phosphoric acid. Its pH is 2.8. It will
dissolve a nail in about 4days. Phosphoric acid also leaches calcium from
bones and is a major contributor to the rising increase in osteoporosis.

2. To carry Coca-Cola syrup (the concentrate) the commercial truck must use
the Hazardous material place cards reserved for Highly corrosive materials.

3. The distributors of coke have been using it to clean the engines of their
trucks for about 20 years!

Now the question is, would you like a coke or a glass of water? Have A Great
Day and Share It With Others


I knew there was a reason that i did not like coke lol
Oh and just my 2 cents. When i worked fast food we used carbonated water ( used in all bubbly drinks ) to cleaned everything. It will get off stuff that nothing else will

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Ewwwww! I drink coke daily. I may have to rethink my addiction! I knew it wasn't good for me- but really!!!!!!!

Some of the stuff written about coke isn't true....check out snopes.com! Coke will no more clean your toilet than any other fizzy drink. Also, coke is better for your teeth than some other "pops" precisely because the phosphoric acid....it eats away at the plaque on your teeth.....but don't forget the sugar in coke is bad for your teeth. We tried coke and reynolds wrap to clean the rims of our truck.....that didn't work either...reynolds wrap alone worked just the same....

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Happy in the Digital World

yeah I dont believe all that about coke , but I do think the water part is true.

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Becky's Blog.

At least some of the info about Coke is true... it does contain acid; we used to use it to clean the rust off of our bikes when we were younger! I do like the info about water, though.... makes me want to go and grab a glass right now!

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Lori

Some of those things are/were true about the OLD COKE, but they made the NEW COKE (that came out...oh man how many years ago now?) that didn't go over well since it tasted more like Pepsi, they supposedly went back to the old formula. For someone who has drank coke exclusively most all of my life...the back to the old coke never was the same tasting or strength it seemed.
Fun to read, I need to drink more water for sure and I can happily say I have for the first time in my life I finally found another pop, Serria Mist I haven't drank a Coke in over 2 months!! Now I need to remove coffee from my list of bad habits, I am down to about 2 cups a day...Pat on back lol

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It's a very fun read, Jessica, but not all of the information is correct. I found the following on a myth-busting web site:

1. In many states the highway patrol carries two gallons of Coke in the truck to remove blood from the highway after a car accident.

This is highly unlikely, where I live a 500ml bottle of Coca-Cola costs aproximately ?0.70, 2 gallons is approximate;y 15 bottles of coca-cola which is ?10.00. Why in a capitalist society is anyone going to bother doing this when far more effective sterliants and detergants can be purchased for a much lower price.

2. You can put a T-bone steak in a bowl of coke and it will be gone in two days.

A T-Bone steak is mainly composed of protein, which, while functionally affected by acids, is not chemically affected by acids, fat, the other constituent in a steak, is not affected by acids, but alkalis. Leaving a T-Bone steak in Coca-Cola would give you a soggy, sticky steak.

3. To clean a toilet: Pour a can of Coca-Cola into the toilet bowl . . . Let the "real thing" sit for one hour, then flush clean.

This is irrelevant, pouring vinagar into a toilet will clean the toilet, but hey, fish and chips are great to eat.

4. The citric acid in Coke removes stains from vitreous china.

There is a much lower concentration of citric acid in coca-cola than in the healthy left wing anti-US drinks like say, orange juice, do we see emails saying that we shouldn't drink orange juice?

5. To remove rust spots from chrome car bumpers: Rub the bumper with a crumpled-up piece of Reynolds Wrap aluminum foil dipped in Coca-Cola.

this is to be expected, Aluminium is higher on the reactivity series than iron or chromium. the aluminium would displace the iron from the rust. The Coca-Cola merely acts as a catalyst, Lipase does not react with water, it catalyses the reaction with a lipid.

6. To clean corrosion from car battery terminals: Pour a can of Coca-Cola over the terminals to bubble away the corrosion.

This is annother irrelevance, it is well known that any acid will react with metalic oxides. is this suddenly a new thing? of course their are better ways which wont turn you're battery into an iced battery.

7. To loosen a rusted bolt: Applying a cloth soaked in Coca-Cola to the rusted bolt for several minutes.

Or to make your bolts stick even more with the sugar you're applying to them...

8. To bake a moist ham: Empty a can of Coca-Cola into the baking pan;rap the ham in aluminum foil, and bake. Thirty minutes before the ham is finished, remove the foil, allowing the drippings to mix with the Coke for a sumptuous brown gravy.

So what? is it bad to make gravy out of things? Some people might enjoy Cola flavoured ham.

9. To remove grease from clothes: Empty a can of coke into a load of greasy clothes, add detergent, And run through a regular cycle. The Coca-Cola will help loosen grease Drink up! No joke. Think what coke and other soft drinks do to your teeth on a daily basis. A tooth will dissolve in a cup of coke in stains. It will also clean road haze fromyour windshield.

This is a fallacy, coca-cola, may be acid, however, the concentration is small. Acidic mouth-washes are far worse to teeth than soft drinks.

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Thanks Jana another good read. I am not a big fan of all the mass emails that get sent to me but this one was just to much fun.

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Come on 40!!!