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Wednesday – Why is soda bad?

Wednesday, May 25th, 2011

 

 

What exactly does a can of Coke do to your body? In short, the caffeine, sugar, and phosphate combo is an assault on your organs.

According to HealthBolt, here’s what Coke’s first hour in your body is like:

▪ 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 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 cells 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 liver 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 pee.) It is now assured that you’ll evacuate the bonded calcium, magnesium and zinc that were headed to your bones as well as sodium, electrolytes and water.

▪ 60 minutes: As the rave inside of you dies, you’ll have a sugar crash. You may become irritable and/or sluggish. You’ve also now, literally, peed 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 having the ability to hydrate your system or build strong bones and teeth.

Dangit, Diet Soda is bad for your body too?????

I can’t even have one a day?????

Again, it goes back to keeping it whole and simple.  Not consuming a manmade product.  Eating and drinking what is natural and not processed.

 

3 rounds for time:

3 burpees

3 box jumps

6 burpees

6 box jumps

9 burpees

9 box jumps

 

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