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The story of a 42-year-old British man has gone viral after he revealed that at one point he drank 5 liters of soda every day and he estimates that he spent around $39,000 (£30,000) over the past 10 years on soda. It got so bad that he had stopped drinking water and only drank soda.
Tom Bowey has been dubbed ‘Dr Pepper MAN‘ by his friends and colleagues and before he got his soda addiction under control, he was told by a dentist that his teeth were at “the level of acid erosion similar to what he would expect in a 70-year-old.” He also said “I also felt really bloated all the time, you gain a lot of weight when you only drink sugar.”
Mr. Bowey recently shared his story with DailyMail and his story has since gone viral as people all over the world can’t understand how this man just drank soda* every day.
He had turned off the water, according to his latest interview, saying: “It started with a (drink) with lunch and then me and my work colleagues started buying drinks for each other throughout the day. They would bring them from the cafe near work. It there was also a vending machine so I could just come in and get them whenever I wanted. Before I knew it, that was all I was drinking and then I stopped drinking water altogether.”
Here is DailyMail video that has been seen everywhere after his story was shared:
Elaborately, his addiction to soda doesn’t seem so crazy. He said “I used to buy the multipacks of 24 cans so I always had them and had at least five cans in the fridge at all times.” I will also buy a 24 can of soda to keep my fridge stocked. The biggest difference between me and him, I guess, is that I do it every five years and the only people who drink soda are my relatives when they come over for the holidays.
Eventually, to break his daily addiction to drinking soda, he sought the help of a hypnotherapist. He said it only took one 2-hour Zoom session to break him of his soda addiction. Since quitting soda and reaching for water, he’s lost 14 kilos.
Hopefully this story of Dr. Pepper Man who turns it all around and ditches soda to get well before his body reaches the point of no return can help others see the dangers of daily soda.
For me, the biggest red flag to the dangers of soda came back in high school when I was on the rowing team. We trained and raced in salt water here in Florida and the salt water wreaked havoc on our boats. To clean metal fittings, we would soak the nuts and bolts and other metal parts in coke… It was the best way to remove build up on metal parts. After seeing that I gave up soda except once in a blue moon.
