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A Timeline of the Effects of Cola on the Body: Why Moderation is Important

A Timeline of the Effects of Cola on the Body: Why Moderation is ImportantIt’s been pounded into everyone’s heads – cola is tasty, but it is terrible for you. Soda is tasty, but you don’t know the specifics. Enlighten yourself and learn just how this world famous drink affects your body and why you should moderate your consumption.

• 10 Minutes after Consumption: Approximately ten teaspoons of sugar rush into your body. This maxes out your daily recommended intake of sugar. Phosphoric acid cuts out most of the flavor, preventing any instances of nausea.

• 20 Minutes after Consumption: You just ingested a lot of sugar. Naturally your blood sugar spikes at this point, which triggers a quick burst of insulin. Your body -specifically, your liver- takes this opportunity to consume all the sugar it can get it hands on, subsequently turning it into fat. Unfortunately for you, there is a lot of sugar in your body right now.

• 40 Minutes after Consumption: Your body will have just finished absorbing all of the caffeine in the soda. Your blood pressure will start to rise and your pupils will become and stay dilated. Your liver does not take these symptoms well and proceeds to add even more sugar to your bloodstream. Drowsiness is no longer possible – the adenosine receptors in the brain are now blocked off. In five minutes, your body will produce an excessive amount of dopamine, which stimulates the brain’s pleasure centers. This is distressingly similar to how heroin functions.

• 60 Minutes after Consumption: A lot of things go down at this point. The phosphoric acid in soda boosts your metabolism at the price of thoroughly binding with the zinc, magnesium, and calcium in your lower intestine. The caffeine starts making you urinate. While this is normally harmless, the problem is that due to the phosphoric acid, you’ll also release all that bonded zinc, magnesium and calcium. All those things were supposed to head to your bones. Instead, they just left you and went straight into the toilet. Soon, you’ll sugar crash, resulting in increased irritability and sluggishness. All the water in the soda is now gone, but so are a lot of important nutrients.

• 3 to 4 Hours after Consumption: The caffeine crash begins. For smokers, the crash can come a lot sooner.

These things don’t just happen with cola – these things happen with almost all sodas that combine utterly tragic amounts of sugar with caffeine and phosphoric acid. Cola every now and then is fine, but you can see how bad it can get. Moderation is as important with soda as it is with alcoholic drinks. With moderation, you can enjoy both.

 

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