Have you ever wondered what happens to your body after you drink a can of your favourite fizzy drink?
Coca-Cola and Pepsi are such products that have been scrutinized by the environment and human rights department for inducing bad and unhealthy food products.
The brands are symbolic of all soft drinks that are nothing but sugar or artificially sweetened sodas with color.
This is what happens one hour after drinking a can of COKE:
In The First 10 minutes: 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. (100 percent of your recommended daily intake.) You don't immediately vomit from the overwhelming sweetness because phosphoric acid cuts the flavour 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: You are now fully caffeinated and probably feeling pretty great.
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 centres 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.
Harmful Effects of Drinking Coca Cola (Coke) or Pepsi:
1) Caffeine, Sugar and Aspartame: These products are invariably present within the sweetened soft drinks. Coca-Cola and Pepsi have been under lawsuits in some of the developed countries against using Aspartame which causes several diseases.
2) Kidney Failures: The sweet sugar is definitely not the reason for a failing kidney, but the artificial sweeteners are. Hence consuming Diet versions of Coca-Cola or Pepsi have proved to produce more impairment than the sweet versions.
3) Metabolism Level Decreases: A glass of warm water can speed up you metabolic rate but may taste awful after a workout session. A can of Coke can surely be tasty, but it really decreases the metabolism and helps in destroying the fat burning enzymes in no time.
Thus a can of either Diet Coke or simple Coca Cola after a rigorous workout or busy day is strictly not advisable.
4) Obesity and Diabetes: Obesity was never a major problem when Coca-Cola or similar products were not introduced. But with an advent of these products, a major portion of the population is turning obese which includes children and teenagers.
Obesity is the root of diseases that affect heart, lungs, and kidney. Researchers have also been proving that obesity may be a cause to trigger cancer cells.
5) Teeth and Bone Damage: The pH level of Coke or Pepsi is 3.2 which are quite high. This pH level decides the acidic nature of a liquid. Hence, these beverages are acidic in nature and can dissolve bones and enamels very quickly.
6) Reproduction problems: A research has shown that the cans of Coke or Pepsi are coated with such chemicals that may lead to reproduction problems with regular consumption.
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