You can be addicted to soda.
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The Last Conformist
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I was of the impression this young lady was into Coca Cola?WillJ said:
Normal Coke contains 34 mg of caffeine per 33cl (12 oz) can or bottle; this means you have to drink about a litre - three cans - to get the same amount of caffeine as you get from a cup of coffee.
To get a proper addiction going, you'd need to drink alot of the stuff, but it certainly should be possible.Some variants, like Jolt Cola, contain more than twice as much caffeine as regular Coke, and thus correspondingly less would have to be drunk.
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The Last Conformist
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It says in crystal's link that if you drink more than ten cups of coffee a day, you should consider cutting it down. Translated to Cola, that means you should consider cutting down if you drink ten litres or more per day.
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Just thinking about a root beer can make my day.
Bamspeedy
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It is my belief you can get addicted to soda. It's scary when you get up in the middle of the night, not for a 'midnight snack', but for a 'midnight soda'. I drink nearly a 12-pack of Mountain Dew a day.
I'm not going to bother reading the link myself (too lazy), so correct me if I'm wrong, but I assume that that means that ten cups of coffee is when the caffeine begins to get dangerous to your health. Addiction is not bad in and of itself, and so I'd think it's possible to be addicted to caffeine when you get less than ten coffee-cups worth a day.The Last Conformist said:
In fact, yes, I'm almost positive of that, because my mom gets withdraw symptoms when she doesn't have coffee for a while, and she only has one or two cups a day (or at least I think she does; perhaps she sneaks into her closet sometimes to have a few gallons
).King PJ
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Soda can be more addicting to some more than others. If I go more than 2 days without soda I feel weak, fatigued and have bad headaches for 2 days.
PHSikes
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Zeekater said:
Mountain Dew is the Elixer of Life!
Do you have Mellow Yellow? Made by Coke.
Mountain Dew is made by Pepsi and is a little sweeter than M.Y.
Jolt Cola "All the sugar and twice the caffeine."
The Last Conformist
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Correct; ten cups a day is where it becomes an immediate health concern. It's certainly possible to be come addicted at a lower consumption.WillJ said:
More normal intakes have weak links to hear attack, and to loss of bone calcium. The later correlation, however, disappears for people who drink milk. Additionally, moderate caffeine consumption is correlated to a lower incidence of suicide. God knows why.
Zeekater said:
Egads!! Heresy!!!
Sprite is merely carbonated sugar-water, caffeineless, spineless, and worthless.
The Last Conformist
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About 0.22, so if you're used to coffee cups the size that are usual in Sweden, it's about two cups.crystal said:
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Daily prejudice time:
"US - the country where you can have a large oily fried chicken mc-nugget and a diet soda"
"US - the country where you can have a large oily fried chicken mc-nugget and a diet soda"
