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What Happens To Your Body When You Drink A Soda?
Sep 5th
- 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’splenty 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 theability to hydrate your system or build strong bones and teeth.
As you can see, your body goes through some pretty drastic changes. Many valuable nutrients are lost; while the body converts much of the sugar into fat.
[ via healthbolt ]
So It Begins – My Quest To Cut Soda Out Of My Diet
Sep 5th
I am starting my journey of quitting soda. I’ve slowly come to the realization that I am addicted to soda much like many are addicted to drugs, cigarrettes or alcohol. Maybe that is a rough comparison but I find it exceedingly hard to stop drinking soda, or pop – depending on where you are from. This blog is the journal of my quest to completely cut soda out of my diet, starting today, September 5th, 2008. I plan on using it to reenforce my decision and to help me out along the way. Maybe someone out there will get some use out of it as well!
