What happens when you drink a coke.......

[burtonator]

Good god this is frightening....

http://www.healthbolt.net/2006/12/08...oke-right-now/

• 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.

[DesertRain]

Wow, now that's scary! Thanks for sharing!

[joee5]

And yet people continue to drink it. I've never been a soda drinker, very rarely maybe. Thanks for sharing. God Bless,Joe

[coribazz]

Oh my goodness, I seriously just printed out your post and I'm going to give it to my best friend, shes drinks like a liter a day. That is really crazy stuff...now I'm missing soda less, that's for sure!

[eclectikat]

That is soooo totally what I need to hear! thanks... Nicely articulated!
Now can you do the same for fresh bread and homemade pizza?????

[Heiricka]

Oh wow, thanks for sharing this. That is scary but good info. I'll be sharing this. To think, there are people out there that are hooked on this stuff.

[happyinlife]

OMG! I am going to have my daughters read that! It sounds like the effects of an
illegal substance.