Is Coke worse for you than alcohol?

This article from The Telegraph is interesting from several viewpoints:

1) We all know that alcohol can cause damage to liver, but fizzy drinks?

We found people who drink more than two cans of Coke a day have increased their chances for a fatty liver, and if left untreated their chances for heart disease and cirrhosis of the liver also increase...

The testers were in Israel, and Coke was the fizzy drink they tested.

2) Fructose does the damage.

The ingredient in fizzy drinks causing the damage is fructose, which is highly absorbable in the liver. It does not affect insulin production and goes straight to the liver where it is converted to fat.

That's probably true, but in the UK, Coke is made with sucrose not fructode, in fact about 6 spoonfuls of sugar goe into every can, so is Coke harmful to the liver in the UK? Probably not as much as in the US or Israel.

3) An curiously, in the US, Coca Cola make a special blend of Coke for the Jewish folk at Passover, and guess what? Yep, no fructose, they use sugar instead.

It really pays to check your facts these days, seems you can't trust anybody. Thank God for the web thingy.

Bye for now!

Pete, tasting wine in California so you don't have to.