While there's no doubt the death of anyone at the young age of 30 is a tragic event, in the case of Natasha Marie Harris, it's important to keep a sense of perspective around the publicity following the inquest into her death.
During the inquest it was revealed Ms Harris'
main cause of death was cardiac arrhythmia, however, she also had a lack of potassium in her blood, considered likely to relate to excessive consumption of soft drink.
Ms Harris reportedly consumed about 7.5 litres of Coca-Cola every day.
Predictably enough, there have been calls for health warning labels to be placed on the soft drink. There's also a suggestion all soft drinks and unhealthy foods should be marked red under a "traffic light" food labelling system.
There's no harm in the idea, but if people think this is going to make large-scale inroads into the amount of potentially harmful foods consumed by adults, they're fooling themselves.
