http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=269520

A common preservative found in many soft drinks can cause serious cell damage and fatal illness, according to a UK study revealed last night.

Research indicates that sodium benzoate, an ingredient in many soft drinks and sauces, has the ability to deactivate parts of DNA and eventually cause diseases such as Parkinson's and cirrhosis of the liver.

This is scary. And makes you wonder about all the other chemicals we consume daily that wouldnt pass todays testing standards.

Theres a history of Parkinsons in my family, seems worthwhile to steer clear of these things. Got enough problems without worrying about degenerative diseases and early aging because of what Im drinking.

i heard about this about 15 years ago.. but they were saying it was the linings of milk cartons..

i think its a yearly scare campaign to keep the masses obiedient

Well, hes been doing the study for eight years and these are his findings so...?

Man up.

soft cocks offering money to the masses to breed are softening our DNA

That's why you stick to the good old H2O :)

Seriously, besides fresh juices and the exception of alcoholic drinks, why would anyone drink anything besides water? Be kind to your body.

taste?

I took a Survey of 50 people all living in Australia. Study lasted 50 years. Out of 50 people 49 had died.
Living in Australia CAUSES DEATH!.

The findings came from laboratory tests conducted with sodium benzoate on living yeast cells.

Yeast? My Beer have to stay off the Sauce?

included in Sunkist, Diet Coke, Sprite, Pepsi Max

That's what you get for trying to be healthy, Chumps!

Hello, caffiene is a mutagen. Yet nobody has ever died from drinking coffee. I wouldn't over-react just yet.

Yeast? My Beer have to stay off the Sauce?

Nice understanding of biology.

Didn't like a bunch of Kids OD on Caffiene in some Energy drink?
They drank ass-loads and died.

Might of been an allergic reaction to caffiene in there though.

Meh, not going to stop me drinking my V.

Nice understanding of biology.

Yes, because we all know that cultured Yeast cells in a dish have the exact same influences as a living human body.

Oh and scooter, its related to mitochondrial dna which is relatively preserved throughout most organisms with them.

Scooter, a large amount of our current understanding of human cellular biology comes from these micro-organisms.

So do we have on QGL ANYONE who doesn't drink alcohol, softdrinks, smoke, take drugs and eat fast foods? Everyone has some kind of bad habit, besides, who wants to live forever?

Doesn't mutagen create mutant ninja turtles?

NB Despite these new toxins average human lifespan continues to increase...

I just tell myself by the time i'm old they'll have a cure for whatever i'm going to have by then.

How many oolld people are there alive today? Lots right?

How many snazzy tests did they have back when they were young? none right?

My logic might really be bad, but it lets me sleep at night.

Yes I drink lots and lots of coke :( (I just finished a 1L bottle :S)

Although whilst at uni I had to do a fairly long research assignment on the effects of caffeine etcetc, and from what I saw, it hasn't stopped me.

so this is why my hands are so shaky after drinking nothing but coke/pepsi as a kid

Sunkist, Diet Coke, Sprite, Pepsi Max

Conspiracy Perpetrated by Coke or Schweppes clearly.

I dont know if Coke would start vicious rumours about Diet Coke

captivate is almost as gullible as that other guy we pay out for being gullible.

I dont know if Coke would start vicious rumours about Diet Coke

Or sprite for that matter.

Would soda water be classed as harmful because that's pretty much all I drink. That and iced coffee breakas. I don't drink tap water because it tastes like ass.

I'm betting alot of people drink coke because they want the caffine from it. I wonder how many people would drink water with added caffine, weeee.

I'm also sure that most people who drink coke and the like are very much aware it isnt healthy for them, so telling them it isn't healthy.. agian.. inst going to do much.

Didn't like a bunch of Kids OD on Caffiene in some Energy drink?
They drank ass-loads and died.

Well thats their own stupid fault, cos most (all?) of those energy drinks have warnings on the label telling you not to drink more than 1 or 2 a day. Having said that, I've downed 3 or 4 occasionally when I'm pulling all night coding sessions and haven't died, yet.

Well thats their own stupid fault, cos most (all?) of those energy drinks have warnings on the label telling you not to drink more than 1 or 2 a day. Having said that, I've downed 3 or 4 occasionally when I'm pulling all night coding sessions and haven't died, yet.

Aren't some labeled with something vague like recommended daily intake or the like.... suggesting any less than 2 cans is also unhealthy?

Khel, just go buy some no-doz and cut the drinking out of the equation :D

Everyone has some kind of bad habit, besides, who wants to live forever?

Not me, but when I am alive and DONT want to have parkinsons or something either. I have seen what that does.

plz correct me if i'm wrong but doesn't lots of things harm dna? i thought even a decent kenetic shock could break dna strands.

Yup, thats why our bodies have extensive DNA repair mechanisms.

Guys toll said we can f*** our dna, thread closed

dn "ayyy"

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Fark living past 70. The moment im physically unable to ride a motorcycle, i want to die.
And if i get disabled young, maybe i can just survive playing WoW for the rest of my life.

Give up all those great things in life just to give yourself another 10 years closer to 100, the s***tiest days of your life anyway.




last edited by Vash at 21:06:47 29/May/07

I say moderation!
I drink 3 litres of water per day during the week at work. Then on the weekend Ill go through a bottle of rum and a few litres of coke (vanilla mmm). Feel like s*** the next day but ill get over it. So im good!

Hang on, are we talking mutant powers here?