Junk Food Ban/Regulation

[JoeTheBro]

Michael-5 said:

JoeTheBro said:

You need better doctors. The concentration of salt in 12 oz can of coke is .13 PSS or .013%. For comparison the ocean averages around 32 PSS or 3.2% by weight. Obviously drinking from the ocean makes you thirsty. That's because the human body averages only 3 PSS or .3% salt by weight. The concentration of salt is 10 times greater in the ocean than in the body. Meanwhile a can of coke is only 4.3% of the concentration of salt in your body.

Conclusion: The salt in coke doesn't make you thirsty.

Sources for data:

http://antoine.frostburg.edu/chem/senese/101/solutions/faq/salinity-and-molarity.shtml

http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/2001-03/985293756.Me.r.html

http://i5.minus.com/jn9DSAt37dsGN.jpg

(I really hope I didn't screw up with my calculations. That would be embarrassing ;0)

What the heck is a PSS?

I know pop has anywhere between 40-90mg of Na per 335ml (12 oz) can. You need 1,500mg of salt a day, so a pop can ranges from 2-4.5% of your salt intake. Salt-Water is 3.5% salt. Pop has anywhere from half to nearly one and a half times the salt of saltwater.

Can you live on saltwater? No.

Random google searches tell me that the Human salinity is 0.9%, meaning any liquid with more then 0.9% salt will make you thirstier.

PSS is grams of salt to kg of water. It's just a unit. Also do you even read what people are posting? The can of coke I used for my calculations was only .013% salt by mass compared to seawater which is around 3.2% That soda is not anywhere near even a tenth of the salt in sea water.