What Happens One Hour After Drinking A Can Of Coke?!
Have you ever wondered why Coke comes with a smile? Because it gets you
high. They removed the cocaine almost 100 years ago. Why? It was
redundant.
When somebody drinks a can of Coke or any similar sugary caffeine drink, watch what happens…
- 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. (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 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, 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.) Want to know what happens after
that?
You’ll Be Fatter: According to research in the Nurse’s Health Study,
which monitored the health of 90,000 women for eight years, drinking a
single soda every day of the week added 10 pounds over a four-year
period.
You’ll Probably Have Diabetes: In the Nurses’ Health
Study, women who said they drank one or more servings a day of a
sugar-sweetened soft drink or fruit punch were twice as likely to have developed type 2 diabetes during the study than those who rarely consumed these beverages.
You’re Much More Likely to Develop Heart Disease: According to a study published in 2007 in Circulation,
the journal of the American Heart Association, subjects who drank a
soda every day over a four-year period had a 25% chance of developing
high blood sugar levels and a 32% greater chance of developing lower
“good” cholesterol levels. The Nurses’ Health Study found that women who
drank more than two sugary beverages per day had a 40% higher risk of
heart attacks or death from heart disease than women who rarely drank
sugary beverages.
You’re Probably Also Less Healthy In Other Ways: Several studies, including the 2007 study published in Circulation,
suggest that diet sodas have some of the same effects on health as
regular sodas, despite having none or very little of the sugar. Why?
Drinking soda is typically part of an overall lifestyle that’s not very
healthy: We know you don’t like us to compare drinking caffeine and
sugar to substance abuse, but when it comes to your lifestyle, some
think that soda is just like a gateway drug.
Coke itself isn’t the enemy here. It’s the dynamic combo of massive
sugar doses combined with caffeine and phosphoric acid, which are found
in almost all sodas. Moderation, people!
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