[SMGFan]

And they said Bloomberg did not know what he was doing. /s

[KarlInOhio]

2.2 gallons * (140 Calories / 12 ounce can) = 3285 Calories per day just from Coke along with 800 mg of caffeine. And that amount can be drunk from high capacity magazines

or single shots

[Jeff Chandler]

Note to self: Switch to Pepsi.

[JZoback]

The amount of potassium in Coke she consumed by drinking that much soda daily alone would cause health problems only...

Potassium leeches out calcium from your body...

Also the article states she was addicted to coke soda...not possible to be addicted physically except for the caffeine....

Even a caffeine addiction can easily be broken...just got to put up with a mild headache and a nasty disposition for a couple of days...

[Verginius Rufus]

If she was in New Zealand, she could not have consumed 2.2 gallons of anything a day. She could have consumed 8 liters a day though (or should that be "litres"?).

Consuming 8 liters a day of water might cause health problems.

[moovova]

Can you imagine the pain and suffering she went thru when Coca Cola brought out New Coke?

[TigersEye]

I’ll bet her pancreas nearly disintegrated too.

[Pollster1]

According to the Coca-cola nutrition facts web site, that's just over two pounds of sugar per day. There are people who might consider that excessive. [Note: two gallons of anything is excessive, but even ignoring the fluid volume, that's a lot of sugar, equivalent to six dozen Dunkin Donuts chocolate frosted donuts - daily!]

[dfwgator]

So much for “Coke Adds Life.”

[kcvl]

Eight kids and she lived with “her partner”?!

Harris’ partner, Chris Hodgkinson, testified that Harris drank between 8 and 10 liters (2.1 and 2.6 gallons) of regular Coke every day.

“The first thing she would do in the morning was to have a drink of Coke beside her bed and the last thing she would do at night was have a drink of Coke,” Hodgkinson said in a deposition. “She was addicted to Coke.”

Hodgkinson also said Harris ate little and smoked about 30 cigarettes a day. In the months before her death, he said, Harris experienced blood pressure problems and lacked energy.

In an interview with The Associated Press, Lisa Te Morenga, a nutritionist at the University of Otago, said excessive consumption of any type of liquid in a cool climate would be likely to play havoc with the body’s natural systems and balance.

http://news.yahoo.com/zealand-womans-coca-cola-habit-cited-death-061953874—finance.html

[KC_Lion]

[EDINVA]

The deceased clearly didn’t know from moderation in any respect. 2.2 gallons of coca cola daily and 8 kids by age 30.

[Little Ray]

Geez, was there anything left of digestive system and kidneys?

[Hoffer Rand]

I know somebody like this. Sucked down at least 5-6 of the 64 oz. Big Gulp size Cokes every day just while at work. And none of the Diet stuff either. Always complaining of headaches. Can we say “caffeine addiction headaches?” Yup. A type-2 diabetic, to boot. Until last year, this person got quite the wake-up call. Had a stroke. Fortunately, it was mild, but not the same person any more. Never fully recovered. Stopped doing the coke for a couple of months, then right back to it.