I’ve never been a big soda drinker, ice tea was always my favorite.  But occasionally on cook-outs or at friends they would offer me one and I said yes.   I used to always drink diet pop until I discovered how aspartame was a health destroyer.  Then I drank regular soda, even though I hated the thought of all that sugar that it contained. 

It wasn’t until I found the following description of what happens to our body after drinking soda, that I swore off all pop.  Yes, it sucks to drink water all the time but being healthy was a goal that I was trying to obtain.

Writer Wade Meredith has shown the quick progression of Coke’s assault.

The main problem is sugar. It’s an evil that the processed food industry and sugar growers don’t want people to know about. Even dietitians, financially supported by sugar growers and sugary product manufacturers, are loathe to tell us the truth.

When somebody drinks a Coke 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. (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.

So there it is, I occasionally have to reread it, so I don’t slip back into the mindset, that tells me just one isn’t going to hurt me.  But it’s an avalanche of destruction in a single can.  Imagine drinking this day after day, week after week. Stick to water, real juice from fresh squeezed fruit, and tea without artificial sweeteners or sweeten it with Stevia.