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[Darvi]

But it's fine if I balance it out with OJ and fizzy water, right?

[Eotyrannus]

I drink more pop than I should, and I drink 3 a day at the very max. Usually 2. Although it's more tooth-related than anything else.

[Comrade P.]

Just tried to count how much of things I drink every day

 - 2-3 litres of water
 - 1 litre of milk
 - 'bout a pint of random fizzy water
 - no less then four pints of tea

You might ask why do I measure water and milk in litres and fizzy water and tea in pints. I have a mug that holds a pint, and I count mugs of fizzy water and tea I drink.

[Eotyrannus]

That's... Quite a lot. Do you happen to have a lot of salt and stuff in your diet?

[BlackFlyme]

If you drink 12 cans of soda in a day, you are what we call "someone with a drug abuse problem" and should seek help.

That's about the level that put one of my friends in college into the hospital, turns out the caffeine was damaging his heart at those levels.

I've only had five cans in between Saturday and right now.

I don't even know how someone could put down that many cans in a day.

E: Didn't notice the lead-up to this comment. A case of twelve cans should normally last me a bit longer than a week, anyways.

[My Name is Immaterial]

I think I've drank about half a can of soda total in my entire life. I just can't stand the carbonation. Sets my teeth on edge.

[SealyStar]

I think I've drank about half a can of soda total in my entire life. I just can't stand the carbonation. Sets my teeth on edge.

Where did you manage to consume six ounces of soda? I don't even think you can get containers of it that small.

I don't drink any soda on most days, but when I do I tend to binge a bit.

[My Name is Immaterial]

I've only taken sips and then decided I didn't want to finish it.

[Comrade P.]

That's... Quite a lot. Do you happen to have a lot of salt and stuff in your diet?

Nah. Never ever visited a nutritionist, though I possibly should. I have, like, 20 kilos of overweight I manage to remove on summer holidays when I am in the countryside, but then I grow it back every year in city.

[Eotyrannus]

That's... Quite a lot. Do you happen to have a lot of salt and stuff in your diet?

Nah. Never ever visited a nutritionist, though I possibly should. I have, like, 20 kilos of overweight I manage to remove on summer holidays when I am in the countryside, but then I grow it back every year in city.

With that much liquid, you probably need quite a lot of salt and stuff. I was thinking more 'not enough salt' rather than 'a lot of junk food'.

[Comrade P.]

I guess there are lots of salt in what I eat. I just guess it by taste of food in our cafeteria.

Junk food is not a big deal - I almost always eat at home or in cafeteria where rather traditional dishes are served.
I've got the point about salt, however. Thanks, I guess. Never thought about it until now.

[SealyStar]

My mother scheduled a dentist appointment an hour ago (it's now over) which I only found out about three hours ago, because it was apparently the particular dental office's only open spot until late June.

1. How does this scheduling work?
2. Why is my mother so concerned with my teeth? Except maybe for food, there's probably nothing that my family spends more on for me (sure, things like housing and utilities, but everyone uses those) over the course of a year than dental care, which I never actually *need*. I only get one checkup with a regular physician a year, but two with the dentist, and taking insurance into account they cost the same per appointment, so that's not a valid answer either.

[Flying Dice]

Because one of the shittiest things that you can do to yourself is end up with a bunch of fillings by the time you're thirty. Going for regular dental checkups (and making sure to take care of your teeth) is one of the biggest ways to save yourself a lot of pain and money. FWIW, I've only seen a GP once in the past four years, but I still make sure to keep up with biannual checkups with my dentist. In other words, going to checkups is sort of annoying and costs some money. Getting teeth drilled is much more annoying and costs much more money.

[Lord Shonus]

Or you have trouble affording and or scheduling (employers are increasingly dickish about giving time off, and most dental offices keep bankers hours) your dental work, and you hit thirty with no fillings and several teeth missing after weeks of some of the most intense pain a body can feel.

[MaximumZero]

If you drink 12 cans of soda in a day, you are what we call "someone with a drug abuse problem" and should seek help.

That's about the level that put one of my friends in college into the hospital, turns out the caffeine was damaging his heart at those levels.

At one point, I was drinking upwards of 3L of soda a day. There were frequent days when I drank 6L, which balances out to 17 cans of Mt Dew. Which totals up to be *drumroll* 912mg of caffeine. Which can be bad for you, I suppose.

Edited for math.