"Our laboratory showed in 1993 that mice given cola drinks instead of drinking water develop tissue potentially carcinogenic DNA damage. This was not observed when other sodas were substituted. (Randerath, Putman and Randerath, Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications vol 192, 61-68 (1993)."
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/your...opinionid=4161
Ick. I used to live on Vanilla Coke, too.