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:

• There are 12 ounces (340 grams) in a can of coke.
• There are 39 grams (1.38 ounces) of sugar in a can.
• 340 grams / 39 grams = Coke is over 10% pure sugar!
• If you typically drink the equivalent of 6 cans a day you are consuming over 8 ounces or 1/2 pound of pure sugar per day.
• 24 oz. at lunch
• 2 cans during the day
• 24 oz. at dinner
• That level of sugar consumption equates to about 15 pounds of raw sugar per month, or 182.5 pounds per year. (This happens to be about my body weight.)
• Don’t drink that much Coke? Well, 3 cans a day still equals 7.5 pounds per month or 91.25 pounds per year that your body has to either burn off or store as fat.
• Sweet Tea has almost the same amount of sugar
• Sweetened Coffee counts too. A heaping tablespoon of sugar is about 20 grams.

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Hmm. Seems those zany scientists in New Zealand have discovered that most energy drinks will turn you into a bloated porker.

According to the September 2006 issue of Mens Health magazine:

“The researchers observed that downing an energy drink containing 80 mg of caffeine and 24 g sugar - about the amount in an 8.3 ounce can of Red Bull - completely inhibited people’s ability to burn fat.”

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Some Aussie scientists have made the fascinating discovery that drinking alcoholic beverages made with artificial sweeteners will get you hammered TWICE as fast as straight sugar based alcoholic drinks.

The theory is that the sugar slows down the absorption of the alcohol in the stomach, while artificial sweeteners do nothing of the sort.
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