How Deadly is a Can of Coke?
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Internet, Biology, Health, Coca ColaAbstract
Many articles and posts online claim that “you lose 12 minutes of your life every time you drink a Coke”. This paper will see whether this statistic is as scary as it sounds by calculating how much life a person who drinks Coke daily could lose and how accurate this claim is based on current research.
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