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What Happens to Your Body When You Drink Coke?
Drinking soda is bad for your health, and many studies couldn’t stress this enough. But if you still find joy in drinking Coca-Cola and serving it to your family, then read on.
In a National Research Center article, writer Wade Meredith provides a distasteful picture of what happens when you drink a Coke. Try not to cringe too much!
- Within the first 10 minutes: 10 teaspoons of sugar enter your system. This is already 100% of your recommended daily intake, but you don’t immediately vomit from the overwhelming sweetness because phosphoric acid “cuts” the flavor.
- 20 minutes: Your blood sugar spikes. Your liver responds to the resulting insulin burst by converting massive amounts of sugar into fat.
- 40 minutes: Caffeine absorption is complete. Your pupils dilate, your blood pressure rises, and your liver, as a response, dumps more sugar into your bloodstream. Drowsiness is prevented as the adenosine receptors in your brain are now blocked.
- 45 minutes: Dopamine production increases, stimulating the pleasure centers of your brain. This, by the way, is physically how heroin works.
- After 60 minutes: You begin to have a sugar crash.
The Grim Soda Truth
Dr. Joseph Mercola, founder of Mercola.com, the most visited natural health website in the world, reveals that despite these scientific facts, the soda trade is still on a roll. The average American drinks over 60 gallons of soft drinks a year. As of 2005, soft drinks dethroned white bread as the top source of calories in the American diet.
A can of soda contains about 10 teaspoons of sugar, 150 calories, 30 to 55 mg of caffeine, and an array of artificial food colors and sulphites. “It’s also your largest source of dangerous high-fructose corn syrup,” adds Dr. Mercola.
The no-sugar varieties are loaded with artificial sweeteners such as aspartame, which is associated with over 92 side effects: brain tumors, diabetes, birth defects, and more.
Watch What You Drink!
A can of soda contains tap water as its main ingredient. Tap water can carry a number of chemicals including chlorine, lead, cadmium, and various organic pollutants.
As eliminating soft drinks from your diet proves to be crucial to good health, pure drinking water emerges as a much better choice.
Dr. Mercola suggests using a quality water filtration system to get rid of the contaminants in the water from your own tap. The kind he personally uses and recommends is the reverse osmosis filter, which is also effective at removing fluoride added to most municipal water supplies. However, you must be sure to add a high quality salt like Himalayan salt to the water after filtering with a reverse osmosis filter.
Aside from using good water filters at home, improving your health also begins by avoiding soda drinks for life. “If you struggle with an addiction to soda, I strongly recommend you consider utilizing the Emotional Freedom Technique or EFT, – a highly effective tool to help you stop this health-sucking habit,” says Dr. Mercola.
Related links:
Soft Drinks: Disease In A Can
Insulin and Its Metabolic Effects
Six Reasons Why Corn is Making You Fat
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