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Posted on Dec 19, 2006 - 1:39am by John P. in Food, Health & Fitness, Videos
Below is an excellent little video that shows exactly how much sugar is in a can of coke. And before you watch it, if you do a little math, here are some staggering figures:
Keep in mind that none of this includes the sugar intake from all other sources in your diet in a given day. Some samples might include:
According to Healthbolt, here is what happens to you physiologically when you consume a can of Coke:
- 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.
By the way:
Incidentally, here is a link to an interesting article called: Soda: 7 Things You Didn’t Know.
I used to drink 6 cans of coke a day in my office after I quit drinking coffee.
Apart from all the weight I put on, my teeth were taking a beating from too much coke.
Until I became health conscious I never really looked at what i was consuming.
Makes a different once you start to explode some of these things.
Actually US coke contains high fructose syrup not sugar. This is far worse than sugar. Sugar is bad but when they made this change coke became more addictive and damaging. You can find coke with sugar in Mexico and in some US stores featuring food from Mexico.
Have a Coke and a smile…
Well, if we always were looking at how things are bad for you we would be wrapped up in cotton in a basement living off (your favorite) scallops and drinking warm water only.
I am not as health conscious as I ought to be, but I sure enjoy life :)
I drink 6-10 cans of Coke a day, I switched to Diet Coke a few years back but have yet to see any weight changes. I usually have a jug of water in front of me while working as well though because sometimes the sweetness from even the Diet Coke is too much.
I have always been a Coke freak, and I am always trying to get my American friends to bring over new Coke flavors when they visit here. I even asked one of my Japan based friends to bring over one of the cucumber Pepsis, Cucumber Pepsi sounds too weird so I wanted to try one :)
Kim:)
[...] Wow, this is very bad news considering my complete and utter addiction to Coke. But Dr. Chi-Tang Ho, professor of food science at Rutgers University has uncovered evidence that our addiction to canned drinks is directly linked to diabetes because of the high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS). HFCS is a sweetener found in many foods and beverages, including non-diet soda pop, baked goods, and condiments. It is has become the sweetener of choice for many food manufacturers because it is considered more economical, sweeter and more easy to blend into beverages than table sugar. Some researchers have suggested that high-fructose corn syrup may contribute to an increased risk of diabetes as well as obesity, a claim which the food industry disputes. Until now, little laboratory evidence has been available on the topic. [...]
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Okay so… I just arrived to this article from your health challenge article, and I must say…. I am going to finish the can of cokes that I have already bought, since offcourse I don’t want to throw money away… and I am really going to try to just switch to water, I bet I could eat more too, with all that weight I’d be saving, hehe.
Yuck! That was a real eye opener…thank goodness I can take pop or leave it. I have also heard that to neutralize the acid in one can of coke, you would need to drink 32 glasses of water. I don’t know about you but that’s a lot!!! I’ll pass on the coke thanks! :-)