I hope she rests in peace just as soon as the body stops shaking.

she died three years ago, and they are just now getting around to determining the cause of death??

and it is a wonder she could even function. Then add being constantly pregnant and it is no wonder she died. I would bet she had numerous vitamin and mineral deficiciencies.

Mine was just a 2 liter a day of diet coke though. But, I had the same symptoms if I didn't have my pop. I would be irritable, have trouble focusing, once I had an irregular heartbeat. I don't drink the stuff daily anymore, but I still miss it a lot. It wouldn't take much to make me a daily drinker again.

It hasn't been reported, but I am going to take a wild guess and say that Natasha was pretty much on just a liquid diet. It would be very hard to eat anything while drinking that much of anything. Two gallons of liquid in your system takes up a lot of room. I don't know if she was drinking Coke with sugar or HFCS, if the former she might not have felt hungry often enough to eat. If the later she might have had an appetite that she satisfied with more Coke. I really wish they would say what her diet was like overall, I think that was also very likely a significant factor.

it can also be symptomatic of such tendencies associated with anxiety spectrum disorders. OCD being one. I can say for myself when engaging in certain tasks, hobbies, work I have to have a caffeinated and carbonated beverage not because I'm thirsty but it's pattern and repetition. I have monitored this and control it better and I am in good health and god weight but I could see how this could happen to someone and also how they may be quickly judges to just be a victim of poor dietary habits and self neglect.

I never got addicted to coffee thankfully. I would probably be a 3 pot a day drinker. But, that is one addiction that is "normal" people think nothing of it if they see you down a cup or two of coffee. Soda is normal in the same way, if people see you drinking a liter of soda no one thinks much of it, especially if they don't know it's your 3 liter of the day and you might drink a couple more. Soda is just about everywhere as well, it's difficult to get away from. So, going out is a bit of a nightmare I have to look at the stuff where ever I go and if I eat out then it's doubly excruciating. I really hate having water with my meal.

With 8 kids she probably didn't get a bit of exercise either.

What a sad story.

You CAN have too much of a good thing, you know. And sometimes you just can't fix stupid.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=strange-but-true-drinking-too-much-water-can-kill

And what's with the EIGHT KIDS by the age of 30???? Was she another Michelle Duggar??

How would her drinking coke while she was pregnant make her babies have their teeth come in without enamel. (Born without doesn't make sense as almost all babies don't have teeth when they're born.) It seems more likely to me that she was giving the kids pop - I've seen parents give their kids sippy cups and even baby bottles filled with pop - and that wore away the enamel.

Not sure if I buy that part, but if I were on the jury I'd hear it out.

Wow.

especially because my kids had dental issues as toddlers and I was told they had weak enamel so I did a lot of research about it. Oddly enough, the ones I didn't drink pop/coke with were the ones with the worst teeth. Actually with one pregnancy, when I entered my second trimester I started to get migraines and it was suggested to drink one regular coke/day instead of taking tylenol, as, at the time, any medication was seen as bad. So the one coke a day totally got rid of my migrains. That was the child with the best teeth out of the 4. Go figure. The one I was most careful with any caffiene/pop consumption had the worst teeth.

I did, however, drink plenty of pop (usually diet coke) between pregnancies, so perhaps that had an effect. It's probably also somewhat genetic - their dad and his family had terrible teeth.