Have you ever wondered why Coke comes with a smile? It’s because it gets you high. They took the cocaine out almost a hundred years ago. You know why? It was redundant.
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.
This will all be followed by a caffeine crash in the next few hours. (As little as two if you’re a smoker.) But, hey, have another Coke, it’ll make you feel better.
*FYI: The Coke itself is not the enemy, here. It’s the dynamic combo of massive sugar doses combined with caffeine and phosphoric acid. Things which are found in almost all soda.
I came across this article on HealthBolt.net and thought it was interesting. Pretty incredible, isnt it? Some of you may have already known all of this, but I hope this article will help those who didn’t.
Posted at 6:31 pm on Wednesday, March 14th, 2007. |
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March 28th, 2007 at 1:47 pm
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March 28th, 2007 at 7:49 pm
no more Coke for me. About 3 months ago I began drinking Coke but I have decided to stop after reading this article.
Awesome.
March 29th, 2007 at 2:26 am
very interesting article!
March 29th, 2007 at 8:14 am
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January 19th, 2008 at 10:54 am
I heard about this and I thought it was a lye so I decided to test the faith and Lo and Behold it was true. I placed a tooth in a bottle of coke for 24 hrs and before I realized it has turned into a powdering substance.
It is real.
January 19th, 2008 at 10:59 am
I heard about this and I thought it was a lye so I decided to test the faith and Lo and Behold it was true. I poured a bottle of coke into dirty sink and covered it up for 24hrs and flashed it in the following before I realized it has washed all the dirty substance in the sink.
Just try it.
February 26th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
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March 21st, 2009 at 12:42 pm
People died eventually anywayz.
Any food or drinks including water can kill you if have too much….
Just make sure you ain’t drinking it like few cans a day…
I drink coke most everyday, and i am still very healthy.
I do full body check every year, don’t see any problem.
As long as you balance your diet, its fine.
*Just keep in mind, soft drinks ain’t water replacement.
*drink warm water after finishing a coke
*Milk> morning and before sleep.
You will be just fine.
January 18th, 2010 at 8:49 pm
well it turns out that if you put a rusty nail into a cup of coke after 48 hours or so you take it out and its shinney as if it were new