[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Teenager-inspired Nanny State PING!

[grania]

The would be doing something really useful if they removed HFCS and replaced it with granulated cane sugar.

[albie]

NOW how do I get my Brominated vegetable oil fix?!

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

:: BVO has been linked to negative health effects, including reports of memory loss and skin and nerve problems. ::

Hmmmm.
Same concerns as pBA.
Don’t Fanta and Powerade still come in plastic bottles?
Hmmmm.

[cynwoody]

http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/cocaine.asp

[Buckeye McFrog]

Can glycerol ester of rosin possibly be any better for you?

[FatherofFive]

Just don't drink any of this crap.

Drink water. Coffee. Tea.

[Colonel_Flagg]

According to medical researchers at the Mayo Clinic, excessive consumption of soft drinks containing BVO has been linked to negative health effects, including reports of memory loss and skin and nerve problems.

I was going to make a comment but I forgot what I was going to say.

[Cicero]

Coca-Cola said it would switch to using sucrose acetate isobutyrate or glycerol ester of rosina

Well, that certainly makes me feel better!

[combat_boots]

1st they dropped cocaine, back in the day. Now this stuff.

Soon, they’ll be selling water.

Oh.

Right.

[mikrofon]

For a moment there, I thought they might be referring to Dihydrogen monoxide

[Daffynition]

[Ken H]

Do NOT mess with my Diet Coke or there WILL be trouble!

[VanShuyten]

From the article:
“According to medical researchers at the Mayo Clinic, excessive consumption of soft drinks containing BVO has been linked to negative health effects, including reports of memory loss and skin and nerve problems”

From the Mayo Clinic:
“There also have been a few reports of people experiencing memory loss and skin and nerve problems after drinking excessive amounts (more than 2 liters a day) of soda containing BVO.”

From Wikipedia:
“However, there was no evidence that the symptoms were caused by that particular ingredient. [16]”

From the article cited in Wikipedia:
“One extrapolation from the pig studies was the estimate that a 165-pound adult would have to drink 353 12-ounce cans of soda per day for 42 days to have detectable bromine in his/her fat. Laughable, you say? Your intrepid investigator has read the medical report of a man whose diet included three or four liters of BVO’d soda every day. In a month, he was in the ER with confusion, headaches, tremors, memory loss, and fatigue. By the time he was correctly diagnosed two months later, he couldn’t walk and was pretty much down for the count. Luckily, the diagnosis of bromism and six hours of hemodialysis brought him around.”

You guys figure it out.

[minnesota_bound]

Well there goes the zing.... in Coke.

[twister881]

[MNDude]

Hurray for sucrose acetate isobutyrate and glycerol ester of rosin!

[Myrddin]

Good news. Bromine has no useful function in the human body. It does strip the iodine off of your thyroid hormone. It will take a fair amount of increased iodine in the diet over a period of weeks or months to drive it all out of your body so your thyroid works properly again.

[wrench]

Just drink water. Your body will thank you for it

[Fledermaus]

Who would know since the formula is supposedly secret?