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* 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 it’s hands on into fat. (There’s plenty of that at this particular moment)
* 40 minutes: Caffeine absorption is complete. Your pupils dialate, 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.
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December 20th, 2006 at 12:34 pm
You have a major flaw in your post. You mention Diet Coke, but the original post is about Coke. I don’t think Diet Coke is as bad as Coke.
December 20th, 2006 at 4:50 pm
Actually it’s a direct copy and past, there isn’t even the word “Diet” in my post… so I’m confused
May 13th, 2008 at 9:46 am
So its not the same effect if you drinl diet coke?
May 13th, 2008 at 9:47 am
sorry drink diet coke?
May 13th, 2008 at 11:42 am
Brandon,
You body can have a similar response to sweeteners that it does to sugar, but diet sodas have their own massive down-sides like drawing calcium out of your body as they are processed.
You know that saying “nothing in life is free”? It applies to everything, even diet sodas and sweeteners…
If you are drinking 1 or sometimes two diet sodas a day you will probably be fine, the more you can cut that back the better. If you are putting away 3, 4, 5 or more (or a giant 44oz Thirstbuster) of the stuff, you are wrecking yourself just as bad as if you were drinking the full sugar stuff.
Also incase you hadn’t tried it or noticed yet, diet sodas enhance your appetite. Try it sometime, get a pizza and drink only water, my guess is you polish off 1 or 2 pieces before you feel “full”. If you do it again but with a diet soda, my guess is that you can put away 4 or more slices before you feel full.