How long can I survive on soda?

[Caffeine.addict]

I was wondering just how long I could survive on a diet that was composed exclusively of soda. For the sake of argument, let's specify Coca Cola. I would imagine it isn't that hard to consume 2000 calories in Coke.

1.How long could I survive on just this before the lack of nutrients does some permanent damage?
2.What would the effects be?

Note- I have no intention of ever doing this or even trying to do something like this.

[HPL]

Well, I'd image you'd start having serious nurtional problems withen a couple weeks. You'd also be having problems with your energy levels due to the sheer amount of suger you're living off of. I'd imagine that after a month or so you'd be having problems with your teeth and such.

Constipation comes to mind, because you wouldn't be getting any fiber in your diet. You'd also be having health problems soon enough due to the sheer amount of sodium you were talking in. And you'd be losing muscle because of the lack of protien in your diet.

I'd bet that your kidneys would be having problems as well, considering all the suger and sodium going through them with little water to flush them out.

I'd give you a month and half maximum before you got ill from it. 2 could possibly be life threatening. Though you'd likely have a heart attack or Kidney failure before the lack of nutriets started adversly affecting you.

[Colophon]

Valid points, except for the bit about sodium. AFAIK, Coke contains very little sodium (from the preservative sodium benzoate).

This site backs me up - only 50mg (2% of RDA) of sodium per 12oz serving.

I don't recommend the Coke diet though...

[smiling bandit]

Constipation comes to mind, because you wouldn't be getting any fiber in your diet. You'd also be having health problems soon enough due to the sheer amount of sodium you were talking in. And you'd be losing muscle because of the lack of protien in your diet.

I dunno; you aren't going to be taking in enough solid mass to have a "normal flow", so I suppose fiber won't be really needed.

[idol mind]

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[merge]

Originally posted by brujo
I was wondering just how long I could survive on a diet that was composed exclusively of soda. For the sake of argument, let's specify Coca Cola. I would imagine it isn't that hard to consume 2000 calories in Coke.

1.How long could I survive on just this before the lack of nutrients does some permanent damage?
2.What would the effects be?

Note- I have no intention of ever doing this or even trying to do something like this.

hmmmm.....
See post by jr8

[cmyk]

How long before the onset of scurvy? Yikes!