Re: danger? of coke & pepsi

Carisa,
Well said. Most of those 'myths' on the list were covered on the tv show, MythBusters, where they did the actual tests showing coke on a penny, a steak, etcetera. They turned out to be just that, MYTHS.

There is one thing I heard from a fellow shopper at the grocery store that worries me about cokes. I knew that Aspartame is like drinking formaldahyde, the embalming fluid, but he said that when cokes were so expensive a few years back, to bring costs down, instead of using sugar, corn syrup was used. Then he said, "corn syrup is metabolized as fat". I did not realize that, and thought my occaisional reg. cherry coke was not too bad for me. Another one of life's small pleasures, ruined. (sob) Omie Tweet