When a 31-year-old in woman Monaco began have heart problems and fainting spells, she went to local doctors to try and find out what was wrong. As it turns out, drinking nothing but soda for more than half of your life can have negative health consequences. Doctors say that the woman had developed critically low potassium levels and an erratic heart beat after drinking two liters of soda every day for the last 16 years. For most of her life she didn’t consume a single ounce of water—unless you count the kind that is highly caffeinated, sugar-infused and bubbly. Fortunately, a week after visiting the doctors, her potassium levels and cardiac activity returned to normal when she decided to follow some radical medical advice—she stopped drinking soda …
