American reader here - How much cola is 10 liters? Please describe in terms of volume of breasts needed to crush a coke can. Thanks.

Teens who drink 2 liters of soft drinks a day are getting around 850 calories from it. Adding that to a balanced diet could increase your weight by 25-30 kg.

and instantly found I had more energy, slept better and had more room for beer

I might be wrong but surely Diet Coke doesn't have much Glucose or Fructose in it so it wouldn't really apply?

Quote: "My girlfriend drinks nothing but DIET Coke all day..."

Diet Coke contains no sugar, and far less caffeine than regular Coke, so this article doesn't really apply.

However, I think I'm correct in saying the artificial sweetener used in Diet Coke has been found to cause cancer, so the argument is probably still valid, just for different reasons.

It's about 2.5 gallons (roughly 1 liter = 1 quart).

I almost fell out of my chair laughing when it came to the kangaroo hunting bit.

The thought of someone with all that sugar and caffeine with a gun. I'm wondering if he had his shirt pulled up over his head while wearing only tidy whiteys and looking for t.p.

Anon... cuz I'm still at work.

"My girlfriend drinks nothing but diet Coke all day, with the odd small bottle of water thrown in. She won't drink tea or coffee and any protestations on my part won't convince her that drinking that much of the sugary stuff is bad for her health."

She needn't worry about sugar, because there's no sugar in diet-anything! Just read the label for the ingredients..

Whether there's a problem with drinking massive quantities of artificial sweeteners (e.g. aspartame) in Diet Thingo, well, that's another question.

So prolific drinking coffee and eating sugary foods is likely to have a similar effect?

Yes, drinking vast amounts of cola knackers your electrolytes - and dehydrates you, which brings its own problems. I've played enough drinking games as a teetotaller to know this - I average about 8 litres a day at drinking-game heavy events; probably two litres on a work day, or on an all-day pub crawl. (I worked out that a pub crawl on full-fat cola quadrupled a Weightwatchers' daily allowance; fortunately I'd switched to the diet stuff by then, so I could claim the walk was healthy.) Like the beer drinkers, eat plenty and drink some water as well and all should be fine. Do it wrong and your muscles cramp up, which hurts - although fortunately I've not had lunch issues.

I'm surprised he'd not had problems before. Maybe he ran out of water.

1 US Gallon = ~3.78l, so 10l is about 2.7 US Gallons (~21 US Pints).

I don't have USG to cup size conversion data, so I can't put that into Jubs.

4 litres is roughly 8 1/2 pints (US) and 10 litres is roughly 21 pints (US)

Were all doomed. DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMED I SAY. Yeah ok so some twat sucks down upwards of 10 liters of soda per day and after three years gets himself sick. Well no shit Sherlock what ever gave you first fucking clue. What else was he doing to destroy his health that might have contributed to that condition as well? What you mean that's not in the learned report?? /gasps all shocked like. Yeah can't let rational ideas or logic get in the way of a justifying your grant money now can you.

Despite my love of root based sugary fizzy drinks I do make the effort to avoid ones with aspartame in, namely the ones proudly saying "Diet" or "Lite" on them, though that hasn't helped my waistline... :(

I once tried caffiene free, sugar free Coke, it was one of the most chemically vile tasting drinks I've ever had.

10 liters is closer to 2.5 gallons. A liter being slightly larger than a quart. Drinking 10 gallons of coke, however, may be sufficient to make one confuse liters with gallons, I suppose.

i drink at least 3 litres of the stuff a day, i lost several stone in weight by switching to diet!

i recentyly gave it up completely, the two week headache i got was fun :)

Its getting quite hard to find coke or anything in the 'small' old 350 ml cans (12 oz) instead they push the 600 - 800 ml as one serving. When I was 12 cans were 280 ml (10 oz). The unit cost of coke is just about 0 to manufacture. The size increase is basically a price hike in disguise.

The worst is when they push the stuff in the big bottles in high school.

Drinking is a great way to get too many calories. If you are worried about your weight - never take in calories by liquid (unless its beer). Doing this will drop your caloric intake by 20 - 40% or more if you are an Aussie Ostrich farmer.

Hah, I forgot we buy soft drinks by the liter in the US too :)

I guess I'm only about 10-15% of this guy's cola intake... I feel safe now.

" I think I'm correct in saying the artificial sweetener used in Diet Coke has been found to cause cancer..."

From U.S. National Cancer Institute:

A study of about half a million people, published in 2006, compared people who drank aspartame-containing beverages with those who did not. Results of the study showed that increasing levels of consumption were not associated with any risk of lymphomas, leukemias, or brain cancers in men or women.

Researchers examined the relationship between aspartame intake and 1,888 lymphomas or leukemias and 315 malignant brain cancers among the participants of the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study from 1995 until 2000. Development of these cancers was not associated with estimated aspartame consumption, refuting a recent animal study with positive findings for lymphomas and leukemias and also contradicting claims regarding brain cancer risk.

Since when have had an Ostrich on our Coat of Arms????????????

If you look again I think you find it ia an EMU you goose.

But more than one can a day makes my teeth feel like they're disolving.

I think in terms of jubs, that would be approximately two...if we're judging by Bunny Gamazon, the Big Texan.

"I don't have USG to cup size conversion data, so I can't put that into Jubs."

You could try asking Wolfram Alpha