scary facts about what coke does to your body!

nikibob

http://www.nutritionresearchcenter.org/healthnews/what-happens-to-your-body-if-you-drink-a-coke-right-now/

i had heard this information secondhand and got a boiled down version. reading it for myself was much more scary than the cliff notes version so i thought i would share! below is the full text of the article



Don’t drink cola if you want to be healthy. Consuming soft drinks is bad for so many reasons that science cannot even state all the consequences. If you do drink soft drinks, as well as other sugary foods, you need the two products listed at the bottom of this article.

One thing we know for sure is that drinking Coke, as a representative of soft drinks, wreaks havoc on the human organism. What happens? Writer Wade Meredith has shown the quick progression of Coke’s assault.

The main problem is sugar. It’s an evil that the processed food industry and sugar growers don’t want people to know about. Even dietitians, financially supported by sugar growers and sugary product manufacturers, are loathe to tell us the truth.

Don’t believe that dietitians are influenced by huge corporate concerns that feed people sugar, drugs and other health-defying ingredients? Go to their official website and check out the sponsors yourself. They are right there in plain sight: http://www.eatright.org/corporatesponsors/

When somebody drinks a Coke watch what happens…

•In The First 10 minutes: 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. (100% of your recommended daily intake.) You don’t immediately vomit from the overwhelming sweetness because phosphoric acid cuts the flavor allowing you to keep it down.
•20 minutes: Your blood sugar spikes, causing an insulin burst. Your liver responds to this by turning any sugar it can get its hands on into fat. (There’s plenty of that at this particular moment)
•40 minutes: Caffeine absorption is complete. Your pupils dilate, your blood pressure rises, as a response your livers dumps more sugar into your bloodstream. The adenosine receptors in your brain are now blocked preventing drowsiness.
•45 minutes: Your body ups your dopamine production stimulating the pleasure centers of your brain. This is physically the same way heroin works, by the way.
•>60 minutes: The phosphoric acid binds calcium, magnesium and zinc in your lower intestine, providing a further boost in metabolism. This is compounded by high doses of sugar and artificial sweeteners also increasing the urinary excretion of calcium.
•>60 Minutes: The caffeine’s diuretic properties come into play. (It makes you have to pee.) It is now assured that you’ll evacuate the bonded calcium, magnesium and zinc that was headed to your bones as well as sodium, electrolyte and water.
•>60 minutes: As the rave inside of you dies down you’ll start to have a sugar crash. You may become irritable and/or sluggish. You’ve also now, literally, pissed away all the water that was in the Coke. But not before infusing it with valuable nutrients your body could have used for things like even having the ability to hydrate your system or build strong bones and teeth.
So there you have it, an avalanche of destruction in a single can. Imagine drinking this day after day, week after week. Stick to water, real juice from fresh squeezed fruit, and tea without sweetener.

tammyquinnlmt

Wow, as a former coke addict, I have to say Yikes! Thank goodness I gave it up!

Quierstina

Oh my goodness! I wonder if the same thing happens when you drink diet coke. In all seriousness thought I only drink a soda one a week if that...might have to reconsider.

JBRENTLINGER

Good to know that I have only had 4 12oz cans of soda pop since 2001 Gave it up for Lent and never went back (with 4 exceptions!) LOL

Avalonis

I drink Coke Zero. It has some of the bad effects (caffine - dieuretic) but not the sugar issues. Yay.

CeleryStalker

My newest love is water with lemon or lime squeezed into it. I read in several glycemic load books that sour stuff lowers the rate that your blood sugar spikes. If your blood sugar isn't spiking as quickly, your insulin isn't being pumped out as quickly, and your fat storage process slows down. Nifty trick! And all these years, I thought people ordered their water with lemon just because it tastes better, LOL

Mkleder

I love Coke. I keep a bottle in my vehicle to loosen lugnuts in the event of a flat. It's also good for cleaning the contacts on the battery.

But I still love to drink it, darn it. So, I have limited myself to ONLY drinking Coke when I can get it in the Santa pack. No Santa, No drink.

TS65

My husband was a 6 pack a day coke drinker. I had im read this article awhile back. :noway: He hasn't had one since!