[gold2040]

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/mother-dies...035230973.html

She must have had a clinical addiction to the stuff

[doop]

Yeah saw this the other day.

I drink 1 can per day but 18 pints per day

Truely sad indeed feel sorry for her family

[Bibidybobidyboo]

Wow, she sounds the picture of health. How awful for her children, not just losing their mother but to have a mother with such health issues; all caused by a fizzy drink.

Oops forgot she also smoked. Daan-daan-daaaaaaaan...

[Miss XYZ]

That's a lot of coke.

[francie]

I thought my 1-2 cans a day phases were bad enough

[Louise32]

That's not a bad suicide method lol! Not too painful.

[Tyr]

All her teeth had been removed because they were rotting, and one of her children was born without tooth enamel.

[Pootmatoot]

I suspect 18 pints of water a day would shred your electrolyte balance.

[Louise32]

Drinking too much water can kill you too.

[gold2040]

Originally Posted by Tyr

How does that even happen

[stvn758]

I drink that much and I'm still here, as for my Mum's PG Tips habit, well. Think there was more wrong with her than just a coke habit.

[Lyricalis]

Originally Posted by gold2040

How does that even happen

Drinking large amounts of cola has been shown to reduce calcium absorption. Probably not too harmful if you only drink a can a day, but at the levels she was drinking...

[Takae]

How can a child be born without enamel? I didn't think that that would be possible.

[Miss XYZ]

Originally Posted by stvn758

I drink that much and I'm still here, as for my Mum's PG Tips habit, well. Think there was more wrong with her than just a coke habit.

What do you drink that much of, coke?

[Bibidybobidyboo]

Originally Posted by Takae

How can a child be born without enamel? I didn't think that that would be possible.

I have to admit I googled this and it wasn't as bad as I imagined. According to Wikipedia it's hereditary. I didn't read the whole article though so perhaps it can be caused from coke consumption*.

*assuming one puts their trust in Wikipedia.

[Declan_Khan]

Stupid person does stupid, unhealthy thing over and over; dies.

What is the story here? This is just a Darwin Award candidate. It even says on the bottle it is recommended in only 200ml quantities per drink as a serving suggestion. To go through 8 pints a day she must have been going through 6 full size bottles a day. As a grown woman with kids, that she failed to realise this would be unhealthy is just utter stupidity. What next, woman tries to touch her brain with icepick, sneezes, dies?

This is nature thinning the herd via natural selection. Just a shame her children must suffer for her stupid actions and may also lack the same sense.

[adopter]

Just say no.

[spkx]

Surely drinking 18 pints a day of anything - even water- is dangerous?

[Anachrony]

What the hell, that's 4000 calories of sugar per day. I'm surprised she didn't spontaneously combust.

[Declan_Khan]

Originally Posted by spkx

Surely drinking 18 pints a day of anything - even water- is dangerous?

More than 5-6 pints a day will kill you, overhydration is just as fatal as dehydration. See Leah Betts as an example.

[Anachrony]

Originally Posted by Declan_Khan

More than 5-6 pints a day will kill you, overhydration is just as fatal as dehydration. See Leah Betts as an example.

She drank 7 liters of water in 90 minutes, not 7 pints of water over the course of a whole day. 18 pints is not advisable even spread out over the whole day, though.

[epicurian]

Originally Posted by Declan_Khan

Stupid person does stupid, unhealthy thing over and over; dies.

What is the story here? This is just a Darwin Award candidate. It even says on the bottle it is recommended in only 200ml quantities per drink as a serving suggestion. To go through 8 pints a day she must have been going through 6 full size bottles a day. As a grown woman with kids, that she failed to realise this would be unhealthy is just utter stupidity. What next, woman tries to touch her brain with icepick, sneezes, dies?

This is nature thinning the herd via natural selection. Just a shame her children must suffer for her stupid actions and may also lack the same sense.

How does that work when she's already had children?

[Aneechik]

Originally Posted by Declan_Khan

More than 5-6 pints a day will kill you, overhydration is just as fatal as dehydration. See Leah Betts as an example.

Leah Betts' death wasn't caused by excessive water consumption alone. Ecstasy has an antidiuretic effect, and that was what prevented her body processing the water she had drunk and led to her death - if she hadn't taken a potent antidiuretic drug, the liquid would have exited her body through the normal route.

[TerraCanis]

Originally Posted by Pootmatoot

I suspect 18 pints of water a day would shred your electrolyte balance.

I would have thought that the sheer volume - two buckets - would be enough to cause problems.

[Voynich]

Originally Posted by Pootmatoot

I suspect 18 pints of water a day would shred your electrolyte balance.

She must have been wandering around in a daze.