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Old 04-20-2012, 12:20 PM   #1
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Oh sure I like a Coke now and then...

but 2 to 2.6 gallons of Coke everyday isn't a good thing.

New Zealand woman's Coca-Cola habit cited in death

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Harris' partner, Chris Hodgkinson, testified that Harris drank between 8 and 10 liters (2.1 and 2.6 gallons) of regular Coke every day.
"The first thing she would do in the morning was to have a drink of Coke beside her bed and the last thing she would do at night was have a drink of Coke," Hodgkinson said in a deposition. "She was addicted to Coke."
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Old 04-20-2012, 12:22 PM   #2
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That is a lot of calories.
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Old 04-20-2012, 12:35 PM   #3
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Yikes that's alot of sugar and calories combined with the 30 cigarettes a day mentioned in the article. She leaves behind 8 children, what a sad situation and she was only 30 years old.
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Well I guess this old slogan doesn't apply in this case:


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Two gallons of regular Coke is ~ 2800 calories! So she got more than enough calories per day just from the Coke. I guess she wasn't eating hardly anything else?

Did her 'partner' try to do anything?

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Two gallons of regular Coke is ~ 2800 calories! So she got more than enough calories per day just from the Coke. I guess she wasn't eating hardly anything else?

Did her 'partner' try to do anything?

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And then there's the caffeine! Yikes. That would do me in.
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Actually I think she drowned.
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Actually I think she drowned.
If I drank that much Coke, I'd burp myself to death.
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Might have been better off with the "other coke"

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