Can chugging a full bottle of Pancake syrup kill you? Let’s say the bottle size is 750 ml.
Hmm… I don’t think so. What kind (flavor) of syrup are you talking about?
It might be dangerous, though… hopped up on sugar, you might run into a wall pretty fiercely.
LilShieste
Syrup is kind of thick… you might choke.
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A counselor from camp told us when she was doing a 3-day NOLS course (I believe it was NOLS), she’d forgotten a waterbottle. She purloined one of those 1-quart opaque syrup bottles from the kitchen at the campsite where they were (the type with the tiny li’l loop, she said she threaded nylon line through it and attatched it to her pack like that). Washed it, used it as a waterbottle. I wish I could have seen people’s faces when they saw her apparently chugging maple syrup to refresh her from the AZ heat…
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I heard that you might go into insulin shock or something.
Are you diabetic?
Being a hypoglycemic, I can fairly answer this question… no, you can’t die from having too high of a blood sugar level, though you might just vibrate and babble like a chimp for a good couple of hours until your insulin kicked you in the teeth. The most chugging syrup will do is give you one hell of a tummy ache, if you don’t redeposit it on your shoes. Unpleasant, but not deadly.
Now, you can die from too low blood sugar ( my problem ), in which your body has no energy to run on, go into diabetic coma and run the risk of brain damage and possibly death.
I got this from URL=http://www.niddk.nih.gov/health/diabetes/dylb/chap1.htm]http://www.niddk.nih.gov/health/diabetes/dylb/chap1.htm
"Diabetes means that your blood sugar is too high. Your blood always has some sugar in it because the body needs sugar for energy to keep you going. But too much sugar in the blood is not good for your health.
Your body changes most of the food you eat into sugar. Your blood carries the sugar to your body cells. The sugar needs insulin to get into the body cells. Insulin is a chemical (a hormone) made in a part of the body called the pancreas. The pancreas releases insulin into the blood. Insulin helps the sugar from food get into body cells. If your body doesn’t make enough insulin or the insulin doesn’t work right, the sugar cannot get into the cells. It stays in the blood. This makes your blood sugar level high, causing you to have diabetes."
Does this mean that if I drink a whole (750ml) bottle of Pancake syrup, I will develop diabetes?
How is drinking a quart of (real) Maple syrup going to be any different than eating a quart of premium ice cream which has a comparable sweetness level. It might be unpleasantly filling and cloyingly sweet, but I don’t think it would necessarily be impossible or that deadly.
There are a few more prerequisites to getting diabetes, though sucking down a bottle of pancake syrup might be inviting disaster. Say your family has the genetic predisposition to diabetes and you go suck that puppy down, you just might invoke your insulin to tell you where to stick it. Overweight people are also a high risk for diabetes ( among other things due to their bodies being overworked as it is ). However, the average, everyday, healthy fellow won’t just develop diabetes. You have to have the risk factors checklist that will lead to dysfunctional insulin and subsequent diabetes.
How could you chug a bottle of syrup? After all, it is as slow as molasses? :wally
Has anybody seen Super Troopers? They chug syrup!
It wouldn’t kill you unless you choked, but it would probably make you barf like there’s no tomorrow. It would also almost certainly give you the shits, and you might be in danger of dehydration for a while.
I doubt it would kill you, but syrup is pretty sweet. Who could actually stand to just drink a full bottle of syrup? Ick!
I’d say you’d either barf it back up or be on a sugar high for days.
Jennifer
How would I be able to prevent or counteract the ill effects?
Don’t drink the syrup?
I feel it necessary to say that repeating stunts seen in movies or on television is, without any possible exception, a Bad Idea. Generally, eating/drinking contests or challenges are also a Bad Idea. Drinking syrup, while it will probably not kill you, will make your life absolutely miserable for a few hours, and probably ruin your taste for pancakes forever.
Nutritional information for syrup: a quarter cup of Aunt Jemima has about 52 grams of carbohydrates and 210 calories. Do the math based on bottle size.
Race chugging a full bottle of pancake syrup (the fake stuff) is a common fraternity hazing technique. If it’s safe enough for thousands of brew-addled meatheads it’s safe enough for you.
This is why I posted the question. I wanted to research it before my friends did it.
It’s not chugging the 750ml of syrup that kills you, it’s the 125 waffles that go with them.
I don’t know if it’d kill you, but I feel nauseous just thinking about it…
One problem you (or your friends) might have is being monumentally thirsty afterwards…yet having nowhere to put the water. Also, I know that, sometimes, syrup makes my throat burn…might not be the greatest thing in the world for the digestive track.