What does consuming a lot of lime do to you?

[HEyHEY]

I drink a lot of club soda with nothing but lime juice in it... with that benefit me in any way?

[SofaKingLiberal]

1. prevent scurvy

:shrug:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

12. Gotta love that history.

http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic2086.htm

Two physicians who played an enormous role in decreasing the mortality from the disease were John Woodall and James Lind. In 1617, Woodall wrote The Surgeon's Mate, which described scurvy and listed lemon juice as the cure. Woodall persuaded the East India Company to provide lemon juice for its sailors.

In 1747, Lind, an officer in the British Royal Navy, conducted a study on 12 patients with scurvy. He divided the patients into 6 groups of 2 and gave each group a different remedy. Only the group given oranges and lemons recovered. It took Lind 41 years to convince the British Royal Navy to implement his recommendation. The British used lime juice instead of lemon or orange juice to prevent the disease, and the sailors became known as limeys.

[HEyHEY]

16. I thought Limeys was a term from the lime pits

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

19. Well, now, it was worth posting this thread just to learn that fact, eh?

[HEyHEY]

20. Yes, I can add that to my know-it-all repertoire

To further entice my friends into telling me to shut up.

[leftofthedial]

2. it'll keep you regular

[RandomKoolzip]

3. It'll make your weenus curve upward.

I've been drinking lime juice constantly since childhood, and now I can fuck my own navel when erect without even trying.

[HEyHEY]

4. Must be a hell of a disgusting navel

[RandomKoolzip]

9. Don't say that about my girlfriend, you bastard.

:grr:

[RevolutionaryActs]

5. OMFG.

I have to go die now. :rofl:

[RandomKoolzip]

7. Now? But I didn't even do any of my ethnic jokes yet!

[RevolutionaryActs]

10. Oh dear...

:rofl:

[RandomKoolzip]

11. Just wait till you hear the one about the Rabbi, the Priest,

Paris Hilton, and a bottle of clamato - then the Death by Offensiveness will truly commence.

[RevolutionaryActs]

14. Clamato?

That's hot.

[astonamous]

22. ROFLMAO! The image that just popped into my head! n/t

[gkdmaths]

6. When I was living in

Mexico, I would eat so many Key Limes my fingernails dyed green for several days.

I dont think an excess of citric/ascorbic acid will hurt you, unless your stomach just doesnt feel like it wants to deal with it. If you do it very often you could develop an alergy to limonene, the essential oil terpenoid of citrus, that can cause reactions in some folks.

Now, I would replace the lime with something like vodka or similar ethanolic beverage, but that's me.

[JVS]

8. Vodka and club soda?

:puke:

Use whiskey for club soda!

[HEyHEY]

13. Mixing whiskey? eeww

[JVS]

15. Only if it's Canadian Whiskey. That stuff blows!

[HEyHEY]

18. That's the only whisky you should mix

Otherwise whiskey should be consumed straight.

[gkdmaths]

17. he he he

well, I guess I've revealed my preference for "any other ethanolic beverage". Never really cared what its in (if anything).

but, yeah...I guess vodak and club is kinda :puke: for the first few drinks.

:evilgrin:

[ForrestGump]

21. Turn you British

But with prettier teeth :P