Latest Entry: (Post #16) by csp4.0 on May 10 2008, 03:19 PM. (Line Breaks Removed)
I got my source from here:http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Can_coca_cola_an...ve_a_steel_nailThe validity isn't very valid, and so, maybe not a steel nail, so probably an iron nail, but more likely... Teeth (or as the orks call it "teef")
When people talk about some kind of addiction they usually connect it with the drug abuse or drug habit (cocaine, marihuana, ecstasy etc.) but I think that every thing that is consumed in high quantity can be considered as injurious to health and it's after someone need it for ceaseless use so we can say it's addiction. I'll give you an example with one of my friends that has addiction to Coca-Cola. He always come to work with at least 1 bottle of 500ml, but often he can be seen with 2 litres bottle. He drinks Cola all the day, in work, in the café or just walking on the street carrying large bottle with some kind of dark liquid. I have some cases when he hadn't any Coca with him and he was begging me to give him from my Cola but because I'm quite squeamish and he was ready to drink from the cap of the bottle! I remember when it was January and we were walking on the street little after snowstorm and he took out from his bag Cola and start drinking on - 15 degrees centigrade... really madman ... and what about you mates, do you have Coca-Cola addiction?
I enjoy Coca-Cola but I wouldn't say I'm addicted to it. I used to drink quite a lot of it but I've been trying to cut back on drinking soda lately. Now I only drink it when I go out for fast food or go out to restaurants, instead of drinking it at home as well.
I can't say that I'm addicted to Coca-Cola... though I suppose I probably should be since my Mom works for them lol... But more than anything I like to drink milk, though when I was younger I did drink a lot more pop, but it was usually Sprite or Orange Crush or Root Beer, that sort of thing. I've never really been big into Coke, it makes too many little fizzies and it bugs me to drink lol
Crap man... I'm to poor to be addicted to Coca-Cola . However, if I was to be addicted to any beverage, I must say that it would have to be Root Bear XD... I love that stuff!
Hmm... I not really sure I'd want to be addicted to Coca-Cola though... I mean that'd be horrible for your stomach and teeth...
I'm not addicted to Coca-Cola. I'm addicted to Pepsi
Actually, I am addicted to something, but it's not soft drinks. It's cherries. I just love the flavour of cherries, so much so that almost every time I buy a drink during a shopping trip, it's a Cherry Coke. But I suppose that's nothing to do with this topic.
I do like Coca-Cola, but I'm not addicted myself. I know many people who are, however...
I enjoy Coca-Cola but I wouldn't say I'm addicted to it.
Same here. IMO your friend has a major problem, cafeine is however an addicting drug once you drink enough of it and since Cola does have a extrodinary ammount in it thats def the problem. If we switched to diet coke for example he could porb gradually quit drinking cola easier. Is he even concerned at all about the negative impacts it has on his health cause to me it sounds like if you drank that much you're teeth would be discolored or at least falling out.
i dont think you can be addicted to coca'cola not to a level were it has an impact on your life anyway.
what part of the drink would you be addivcted to?
there a few different receipies:
QUOTE
Recipe 1
This recipe is attributed to a sheet of paper found in an old formulary book owned by Coca-Cola inventor, John S. Pemberton, just before his death (U.S. measures): Ingredients: 1 oz caffeine citrate 3 oz citric acid 1 fl oz extract vanilla 1 qt lime juice 2˝ oz flavoring 30 lb (14 kg) sugar 4 fl oz fluid extract of coca (decocainized flavor essence of the coca leaf) 3 oz cocaine 2˝ gal water Caramel sufficient Flavoring: 80 Oil orange 40 Oil cinnamon 120 Oil lemon 20 Oil coriander 40 Oil nutmeg 40 Oil neroli 1 qt alcohol
Directions: "Mix caffeine acid and lime juice in 1 quart boiling water add vanilla and flavoring when cool. Let stand for 24 hours."
This recipe does not specify when sugar, coca, caramel or the rest of the water are added.
Source: Mark Pendergrast. For God, Country, and Coca-Cola: The Definitive History of the Great American Soft Drink and the Company That Makes It. New York: Basic Books, 2000. ISBN 0-465-05468-4.
Recipe 2
This recipe is attributed to pharmacist John Reed. 30 pounds (14.2 kg) of sugar 2 US gallons of water 1 quart of lime juice 4 ounces of citrate of caffeine 2 US fluid ounces of citric acid 1 ounce of extract of vanilla 6 drams (3/4 US fluid ounce) of fluid extract of coca
Recipe 3
This recipe is from Food Flavorings: Composition, Manufacture and Use (2nd Ed.) 1968 by Joseph Merory (AVI Publishing Company, Inc., Westport, CT). Makes one U.S. gallon (3.8 L) of syrup. Yield (used to flavor carbonated water at 1 fl oz per bottle): 128 bottles, 6.5 fl oz (192 ml). Mix 2,400 grams of sugar with just enough water to dissolve the sugar fully. High-fructose corn syrup may be substituted for half the sugar). Add 37 grams of caramel, 3.1 grams of caffeine, and 11 grams of phosphoric acid. Extract the cocaine from 1.1 grams of coca leaf (Truxillo growth of coca preferred) with toluol;dry the cocaine extract. Soak the coca leaves and kola nuts (both finely powdered; 0.37 gram of kola nuts) in 22 grams of 20 percent alcohol. California white wine fortified to 20 percent strength was used as the soaking solution circa 1909, but Coca-Cola may have switched to a simple water/alcohol mixture. After soaking, discard the coca and kola and add the liquid to the syrup. Add 30 grams of lime juice (a former ingredient, evidently, that Coca-Cola now denies) or a substitute such as a water solution of citric acid and sodium citrate at lime-juice strength. Mix together 0.88 gram of lemon oil, 0.47 gram of orange oil, 0.20 gram of cassia (Chinese cinnamon) oil. 0.07 gram of nutmeg oil, and, if desired, traces of coriander, lavender, and neroli oils, and add to 4.9 grams of 95 percent alcohol. Shake. Add 2.7 grams of water to the alcohol/oil mixture and let stand for twenty-four hours at about 60 °F (15.5 °C). A cloudy layer will separate. Take off the clear part of the liquid only and add the syrup. Add 19 grams of glycerine (from vegetable source, not hog fat, so the drink can be sold to Jews and Muslims who observe their respective religion's dietary restrictions) and 1.5 grams of vanilla extract. Add water (treated with chlorine) to make 1 gallon of syrup.
I think the whole reason behind addiction based on peoples choice. Some say "i cant quit" truth of the matter is they can they choose not too. If your friend wants to stop this coca-cola addiction all he has to do is find a subsitute, but seeing that he drinks it daily his body might not function correctly with out it.
For the past three years I have started drinking Mountain Dew. It started off as every so often and then soon developed into a one a day and gradually rose to two and sometimes three a day depending on the amounts and how long I have been up. I did give it up once for lent which was forty days but then I was right back on. I have not really tried to stop again because I have not really wanted to but I know it is a waste of my money and will probably soon affect me health wise. I just do not want to and wish there was an easier way. Maybe this summer with school over and me back on a regular schedule I can start to slow it down to one a day and maybe one every other day and gradually knock it down.
Well, you should really stop your friend from drinking so much coca-cola, not only does it destroy teeth like a tow missile, but with all those sugar in it, you'd probably be better off eating mistletoe...
Anyways, personally I don't drink coca-cola... I've gotta admit that it tastes pretty good, but barely ever drink it, and only drink it if I have to, but even if I'm just invited to drink coca-cola, I won't drink it...
Having the thought of that experiment where they put a steel nail inside a bottle of coca-cola and a week later, it disappeared, having been eroded away COMPLETELY by the coca-cola...
You should probably at least try to get your friend to stop the coke addiction, with all that sugar intake, he'll probably get diabetes when he's older, you should inform him of at least that. Oh, and don't let him drink your coke.
@Bluebear - you can get an highly caffeinated energy drink called "Bawls", that has Guarana
i have spent a large span of time for to quit drug addiction. i think there are a lot of people in
the world would like to share the same truth that though they are addicted by drug , they hate it
and want to quit it any time. i have learnt a lot about how to quit the drugs.....
I was watching the Tyra Banks show today ( because there is little else on at 6 am) and her guests
were people with addictions. Tyra covered a variety of addictions such as alcoholism, surgery,
shopping, and cutting on oneself. After the show I wrote her an email ( I have no idea if she will
ever see it) about the viscious cycle that is involved with people who cut themselves. I thought I
would share my email and personal story here because cutting oneself is on an extraordinary rise (
particularly in our youth today) and I wanted to help educate some of the behind the ....
I AM VERY MUCH ADDICTED TO NET and my freinds used to call me net-eria(means a net being) i
couldn't concentrate on my studies at that time but i worked over it to overcome that addiction
now i only spend 10 hours a week on the net only. i think it is not addiction anymore relative to
50+ hours a week which i earlier used to spend on the net and that too on cheap sites. i think
maturity comes only after some experience. ....
Once I ever got to know how to use a computer and found out many things that a computer can do I was
surprised. It all started when I got on a computer for my first time playing a game that my cousin
had let me play. This was 5 years ago and now I am very addicted to the computer and if I stop using
the computer for about a day or week I feel like i'm gonna die or something. The only time I
don't feel like using the computer is when my cousins and families visit from other places. Or
when I play a video game that is not on the computer.....
You could (and once upon a time I did) say just don't get on them, but maybe you didn't
break your sternum while you were trying to heal from four broken vertebrae. I was in the hospital a
very long time, and while I was there they gave me Dilaudid, which is stronger than morphine, which
is stronger than any heroin you'd find on the street. I was very worried because in my job I
meet people who got addicted to these medicines and ended up buying them on the street, losing their
jobs, etc. People I worked with lost their jobs because of it. Until this year, I....
So I was watching the News the other day, which is slightly unusual to me when a Report came up on
Video Game Addictions. I thought this was sort of weird, because Video games don't contain
nicotine, or an addictive substance, at least I hope, but further on the Report started to make more
sense. It explained Video Games cause a psychological addiction ,and the addiction occurs because of
the experience, and the good feeling you get from playing them. I am a gamer myself and never
realized the addiction, so this Report sort of scarred me a bit. Now that I look back o....
As many of you may have heard, caffeine can be considered a drug to some. What are your opinions on
this subject? Obviously, like any drug, caffeine can affect some, while others can be unaffected.
For example, I drink soda, usually two cans a day. Now, I have gone sometimes a week or two without
soda though, clearly stating it has no control over me, but I have heard it can affect others in
strange ways. For some caffeine consumers, if they go too long with it, they will get headaches,
nausea, etc. But I rarely see this is people. This is most people's defens....
Have any of you cured a common addiction that you or anyone you know have experienced? Feel free to
shout out any helpful tips or what you think would be the most effective way of solving an
addiction. Or simply add which method you feel would be the most effective. Whether you used an
advertised product to help cut down, made your own program or cutting down moderately, the use of
exercise or a certain diet, inspiration from other people or from advertisements displayed on
TV/Radio. Or simply packing it in when you feel like it.....
Hello everyone, The other day I was talking to a couple of my friends and as I was nagging them to
stop smoking one of them said that my nagging too is sort of an addiction like their smoking. I mean
the fact that the habit of nagging is considered an addiction. That set me thinking that for all
we know, Everything that we do might be an addiction, our computers,books, videogames, Junk food. I
totally agree that Iam addicted to food,books, talking and games. Dont you think that posting too
is an addiction in a way? Freaky but so cool. I'd love to hear about wh....
Looking for coca, cola, addiction, sorts, addiction
Searching Video's for coca, cola, addiction, sorts, addiction
Express your Opinions, Thoughts or Contribute more info. to help others.
Ask your Doubts & Queries to get answers, So that "Together We can help others!"
Register FREE for AD-FREE
forum, Create your own topics, Ask Questions, track topics, setup
subscriptions & notifications and Get a Free Website w/ Email and FTP.
... and what about you mates, do you have Coca-Cola addiction?
.
