If you believe that drinking soft drinks is harmful to health, an elderly South Korean woman is not a supporter of this view, as she has known a drink only the Coca-Cola for 40 years.
The 74-year-old South Korean woman has been living on this single drink since losing her husband at the age of 34, and is even more dead after losing her son in a traffic accident.
South Korea's XSBS showed the story of the retired woman on screen last February, and since then her story has been surprising to many both internally and externally.
The woman told the tv channel that she had turned to Coca-Cola because she wanted to "forget her sorrows after losing her husband and then her son," and it's very similar to "resorting to alcohol when you want to give up a little bit of life trouble," she said.
She added that she consumes an average of 10 cans of Coca-Cola a day, meaning that over the past 40 years she has drunk about 150,000 cans, equivalent to 37,500 litres.
While many believe that the addiction to soft drinks in this way is a "catastrophic recipe," the Korean old man insists that she is in good health.
The woman went further, asserting that Coca-Cola "contributed positively to her health," and said she considered it "the perfect treatment for fatigue, drowsiness or hunger."
The television channel offered the woman medical examinations to ensure her safety, showing that her blood was normal for a person her age, while doctors revealed minor stomach and duodenal ulcers.
Doctors stressed that these ulcers could be a problem for women in the long term. However, it is not clear whether Coca-Cola consumption over the past four decades is the cause of these ulcers.
After the tests, the woman promised that she would try to reduce the amount of Coca-Cola she drank each day.
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