Great DIGG on Coca-Cola (start > finish on your body)

[sNyx]

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

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 it’s hands on into fat. (There’s plenty of that at this particular moment)
• 40 minutes: Caffeine absorption is complete. Your pupils dialate, 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.

[justShell]

wow. i never want to drink that agian.. i had no idea it was that bad

[FireWire]

Good post. I knew this all along actually... I came across someone who suffered extremely from all the pop drinking.

My good friend's mother needed to have stomach surgery because the sugars from all the pop she was drinking literally 'burnt' a hole through her stomach. She ended up dying a few after the surgery because the patch that sawed her stomach together gave away and she had an internal acid leak that affected her liver which stopped working soon after that.

My best friend right now drinks about 2-5 Cokes and pop drinks a day and he complains from not being able to eat well anymore and constantly having bad stomach acid that makes him feel weak all the time. He needs to read this.

[Goodfellow]

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.

sweeeeeeeeeeeet

[djOKIBI]

Yuck, I don't drink a lot of soft drinks, but this has given even more reason no to.

[baby-phat]

Blech.. reading that makes me so glad that I drink very little pop. Think I'm gonna cut my consumption of it even more.

[FireWire]

You think?? :p

[wishbone]

this thread makes me wanna do coke!

[-evil-duerr-]

i looked at another article on that website, and they referred to cocaine and heroin as amphetamines...

ya, sounds like a real reliable source .....

think I'll drink another can of coke.

[Antenna_Boy]

Originally Posted by justShell

wow. i never want to drink that agian.. i had no idea it was that bad

you can also use coke soft drinks to remove rust of metal too :)

hehe..good thing I drink Pepsi instead ;)










...even though it's basically the same thing :( hahah, sure tastes good though :)

[Haze]

SO that is why I drink that stuff on the graveyard shifts, we need bigger bottles... like 4 liters! NARF!

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[FireWire]

Originally Posted by -evil-duerr-

i looked at another article on that website, and they referred to cocaine and heroin as amphetamines...

ya, sounds like a real reliable source .....

think I'll drink another can of coke.

Bro, even if that site doesn't have THE MOST accurate information - it is STILL pretty damn accurate. I mean if you don't believe a word from that site, then use common sense and understand that what they are saying doesn't require any crazy scientific explanation to tell you what happens when you drink a coke. It's just common sense.


And yeah, cocaine IS an amphetamine except it is more commonly referred to as a euphoric stimulant. Same thing though. Heroin is NOT an amphetamine, they got that totally wrong. It's a euphoric depressant and analgesic.

[sNyx]

Originally Posted by wizzfish

this thread makes me wanna do coke!

that or H

[djmarkpaul]

For all you coke enthusiasts that may have a hard time swallowing this thread, find 2 dirty pennies, like really dirty and grimey. Get a shot glass and fill it up a 1/3 of the way with some cola with its fizz before you go to sleep, throw in one penny and leave the other out for comparison. When you wake up compare the 2. Now think of what it's doing to your gullet.

If you're gonna drink pop anyways, try not to do it on an empty stomach.

[thebobman]

I wonder if New Coke had a detour in there

[tiedye]

but it tastes great with rye!

[se7en]

i drink diet. those coke myths about cleaning rust and incinerating a penny are all false, they did a feature of cola on myth busters.

[prozac]

Originally Posted by Goodfellow

sweeeeeeeeeeeet

literally. ;)

[charly]

Originally Posted by se7en

i drink diet. those coke myths about cleaning rust and incinerating a penny are all false, they did a feature of cola on myth busters.

riiight. cause aspartame is SO much better for you? (and not to mention, it tastes like ass).

diet is no better for you than regular. they're both horrible on your system.

[djmarkpaul]

Originally Posted by charly

riiight. cause aspartame is SO much better for you? (and not to mention, it tastes like ass).

diet is no better for you than regular. they're both horrible on your system.

No doubt I was gonna be all like aspartame what! Shitty taste but if your a diabetic addicted to pop then slowly giving yourself cancer is a pretty good way to opt out.


BTW mythbusters tends to sensationalize the claims of what they are apparently debunking. I like the premise of the show but they aren't always spot on.

Obviously its not gonna incinerate a penny, but its gonna clean a dirty one rather well, I've tried it and yes to does work, but I guess watching it on the tube is better than proving it for yourself.

[ja_raul]

That article made me thirsty for a coke.

[se7en]

sucralose all the way. i luvvvv coke.

[apri_peel]

well, one of my best friends used to be able to down a 2 liter of coke in an hour, he found out 3 years ago he's a diabetic at the age of 21, the doctor is pretty sure coke had a big role in that

ive never really liked the funky acidity aftertaste when drinking pop, so i guess good on me that i rarely ever drink the crap :)

[revert]

Originally Posted by apri_peel

well, one of my best friends used to be able to down a 2 liter of coke in an hour, he found out 3 years ago he's a diabetic at the age of 21, the doctor is pretty sure coke had a big role in that

ive never really liked the funky acidity aftertaste when drinking pop, so i guess good on me that i rarely ever drink the crap :)

in an HOUR?! I hardly call that an accomplishment.

[charly]

^ accomplishment or not, that's still pretty nasty.


i don't drink that much soda. sometimes i won't drink any for a while, and then i'll have some. and randomly stop again.

i'm drinking one right now, but that's okay because it's not diet. :P