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Cola in first aid kit?

Published on : 9 July 2011 - 8:08am | By Krista Arriëns (Photo: RNW)
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Webforums, websites and even GPs recommend a glass of cola as the perfect remedy for tummy upsets. And that's only one of the myths doing the rounds about Coca-Cola and other colas. How to separate fact from fiction?

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coepmichael 7 October 2011 - 7:29am

i appreciate this work.... This is a wonderful post Adison High School

Darla 11 July 2011 - 9:13am / USA

I remember, as a child, pharmacys that would 'mix' up a variety of medicines from ingredients they kept on hand. The doctor more than once gave my mother a Rx for "coke syrup" to settle a sick stomach, and we got it at the local pharmacy where they 'mixed' it behind the counter.

This was during the time that you could visit a "soda shop" and they made drinks up from 'syrup' and carbonated water using a little hand pump.

Yes, I know... I'm older than dirt. /shrug

Alfonso M 10 July 2011 - 9:04am

Soft drinks in general are terrible and unhealthy.

P.S.- Krista Arriens is gorgeous.

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