What Happens to Your Body When You Drink a Can of Coke?

[Jacaylbaro]

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 flavour, 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. (And 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 liver 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 centres 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, electrolytes, and water.

 

> 60 minutes: As the rave inside 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 hydrating your system, or building 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.)

 

 

 

HALKAN

[Bluelicious]

I already knew this but it's good to be reminded again once in a while. That's why I don't drink cola or other fizzy drinks often your literally killing yourself from the inside. People who drink cola too often develop osteoporosis and weak brittle bones which becomes a problem because your bones can easily break at the slightest fall or hard thing you bump into and it takes a very long time to heal again.

[Valenteenah.]

Urm...I quit for a year but now am back to a litre of Pepsi a day. Arg!

[Polanyi]

When I drink a can of coke-I get inspirational feelings of energy, joy, geniusness, creativity- accompained by ecstatic bursts of freedom generated from the upper brain cells-connected to the long hairs of the moustache.

[Narniah]

The acidity of coke is so strong that you can clean an old car battery with it, removing all the corrosion. Imagine what coke can do to your intestines.

 

Say no to Coke.^-^