what soda does to your body ?

i found that while i was searching in the net and i felt like i have to put it her so every body can have a look at it .................

Don’t drink cola if you want to be healthy. Consuming soft drinks is bad for so many reasons that science cannot even state all the consequences. But one thing we know for sure is that drinking Coke, as a representative of soft drinks, wreaks havoc on the human organism. What happens? Writer Wade Meredith has shown the quick progression of Coke’s assault.

The main problem is sugar. It’s an evil that the processed food industry and sugar growers don’t want people to know about. Even dietitians, financially supported by sugar growers and sugary product manufacturers, are loathe to tell us the truth.

When somebody drinks a Coke watch what happens…

• 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’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 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.

So there you have it, an avalanche of destruction in a single can. Imagine drinking this day after day, week after week. Stick to water, real juice from fresh squeezed fruit, and tea without sweetener.

Well, since no one has replied yet. I will disagree on a few things here. First, there is no RDA (Recommended Daily Allowance) value for sugar. So it's silly to say that a can of soda is 100% of your RDA. There is no such thing.

Tons of foods, natural and processed, have many forms of sugars that cause insulin bursts. And it really doesn't take much to cause that. Ask a diabetic.

About the only really accurate things I agree with in your comments, is about the Phosphoric Acid and Caffeine. Which have a lot of good studies done on them.

Not all sodas contain Phosphoric Acid or Caffeine. And if you are a diabetic or have issues with your body controlling insulin levels, then you can always drink a splenda based diet soda that does not affect sugar levels.

Good luck avoiding sugar if you are really set against sugar. Avoiding soda will only help lower your sugar intake if you currently drink a lot of soda and you don't eat much fruits or sweet breads and desserts.

Other than lowering sugar intake to control issues with your insulin, there really is no RDA value recommendation on how much or how little sugar you should consume.

And none of this applies to diet Coke, right? *sweating* and *seriously addicted* and *worried that her only treat on good days won't be an easy choice.*

soda is an occasional treat for me...i drink the diet version...i hav read so many articles abt how the acid in soda dissolves teeth and bones...gimmea break...thrice a week soda is not going to leave u toothles!

Whatever.  Soda=chemicals.  Fruit juice=food.  You should always eat food.  You should never eat chemicals.  It's easy.

todeinotaton is right,

diet soda or regular soda in extreme moderation, i mean very little is fine.

But your body was not meant to handle aspartame or that much sugar. That simply doesnt occur in nature.

even dates ( a GI 100) are handled differently by your body, mean while soda is a entirly different animal.

todeinotation - I'm all for eating nutritious foods. Can you give me an example of a chemical-free food?

dartrinton - you imply that things that come from nature are good and things manipulated by man are bad with your statement that sweeteners and high doses of sugar "simply do not occur in nature". This is a dangerous assumption. For example, the botulinum toxin and anthrax are perfectly natural but pasteurized milk and juices are not.

ser25-

sugar in soda, is the purification of sugar cane, or beet sugar.

its processed to the point that it doesnt occur that way. Now fruit, cold pressed oils, etc. are able to be extracted without chemicals or extreme processing, they can be picked, or "steped" on to produce fruit juice, etc. another example is most vegatable oils, they are extracted with chemical solvents, agian, not a natural state.

there are plenty of dangerous and natural things, like many mushrooms, etc. but those are simply different, they arnt altered chemically to contain more sugar, or mimic sugar, etc.

pasteurized milk is very natural, its simply high heated raw milk, healthy? No, probably not, you make the milk so sterile that its basically dead. agian, unless your talking about UHT milk, im afraid i dont understand your arguement.

Putting that aside, its been proven that diet soda/soda isnt meant to be consumed. ASpartame is phenalline and apartitic acid ( spelling) , it begins with bacteria, but after that, its processed into a strange chemical.

Original Post by dartrinton:


diet soda or regular soda in extreme moderation, i mean very little is fine.

What do you consider moderate?  I used to consume about 1000 calories/day in pop alone.  Now, I only drink caffeine free pops (usually orange soda or root beer) and try to keep it at no more than 2-3 12 oz. servings/week.  This is huge progress though I know I can do better.  Thoughts?

My point was that everything contains "chemicals". It's so ambiguous, like saying "stuff". Water can act as an acid or a base - it is a chemical by nature. Acetic acid (vinegar) is probably not safe to drink. But, diluted to 5% and used in salad dressing, it's perfectly safe. Some poeople insist that it's a great cleanser and healer. BUT it has "acid" in the name - oooh, scary chemical... or natural health product?

"there are plenty of dangerous and natural things, like many mushrooms, etc. but those are simply different, they arnt altered chemically to contain more sugar, or mimic sugar, etc.

pasteurized milk is very natural, ..... im afraid i dont understand your arguement. "

The pasteurization example was because I thought that by "chemical" you meant "processed". Everything we eat is carbon-based. Cooking is a chemical reaction. You chemically alter an egg when you boil it. Nature didn't cook that egg for you, would you rather eat a raw one in it's original chemical state? I'd rather process mine in a pot of boiling dihydrogen monoxide.

Before you start bashing foods with chemicals, define "chemical" in a meaningful way. Otherwise, it's a completely useless argument because all matter can be considered a chemical by definition. Calling them "strange chemicals" doesn't help me understand where you draw the line of acceptable vs harmful substances.

heh listen, im basically tryinig to say that certian things were not meant to be eaten. and our bodys cannot handle it, so dont take short cuts around it either way.

by extreme moderation i mean a glass a day or so, but not like my dad who only drinks diet soda, or diet juices like crystal lite.

i would probably say that 1000 calories in pop or any sugar isnt that good, i know, since when i was younger i did the same, and i remember feeling tired and weak.  2-3 servings a week is perfectly fine.

ser25: what im  saying is plain as this: try not to eat anything that needs a ton of processing or a huge scientific reaction to create, like splenda or aspartame. they simply dont react like a cooked egg, our body has enzymes that help with cooked protien, but i  doubt it can break down aspartame just as easliy.

by strange chemical i meant that aspartame ( what i partically ranting about) is a conbination of two chemically combined protiens, that really dont occur in nature that way, and in that configuration.

puting that aside, there are numerous studys done on aspartame that link it with illness in humans and animal alike.

im sorry if there was miscommuncation but remember, i am talking thorugh a keyboard and its rather hard to say everything im feeling. i by no means mean processed, since mostly everything is processed in some form to be digestible. But when you vastly change the chemical bonds and alter lipids and such, you arnt going to have a good time. ive even heard people rally agianst cooking food, since "were not meant to do that"

so its really up in the air.

ha, dihydrogen monoxide i get it, funny.

you must be a chemist.

does anyone have any info or opinions on the use of certain sweeteners vs others.  specifically splenda is a current favorite rather than say equal or sweetnlow?

thanks

COKE ZERO TILL I DIE!!!!

that is all

(Dies happily with coke zero in hand)

**hides behind lab coat**

I did a lot of research on sweeteners, trying to prove that they are harmful. I came up with no strong arguments for either side of the debate. Feeding a rat 20% of it's body weight in aspartame every day for six months doesn't tell me much about a human eating a few spoonfuls a week. I believe that they are doing some kind of harm, but less than other environmental factors such as all the car exhaust we inhale. Ugh - don't get me started on air fresheners!

Splenda tastes better than the others. Means nothing in terms of toxicity, though.

Want a good laugh? Go to www.DHMO.org and find the FAQ section, scroll down to possible dangers...

heh, that was acutally a question on one of my chem exams

i always find it funny when people fall for that one

be careful not to drink it, its poison!

heh

back to sweetners, i never had any problems after splenda, hoowever i did notice gas. Aspartame on the other hand, well, i felt bad when using it, felt better when off it.

oops - wrong thread

Lets see now....unnatural, man-manipulated foods we were never meant to eat....these would include beer, wine, coffee, cereal, bread, cheese and other dairy products, cookies, lettuce, tomatoes, potatoes, rice, vegetables, carob, commercial fruits and juices (especially those oranges and bananas, etc etc including sodas and Clif bars.

This leaves us with raw meat, blood, acorns, wild berries, mother's milk, durian, and maybe a few others, on the acceptable non-manipulated list.  Any takers?

Oooh, lightning-scorched meat with acorn puree!

You know that grapefruits didn't exist until someone cross-bred pomelos and oranges? That's genetic manipulation! I've eaten a lot of grapefruit over the years... do you think I'm mutating on the inside?

Original Post by todeinotaton:

Whatever.  Soda=chemicals.  Fruit juice=food.  You should always eat food.  You should never eat chemicals.  It's easy.

Correction: Soda = edible foodlike substance.  Fruit juice = food.  One should always eat food.  One should never eat edible foodlike substances.  It's easy.

Of course, you can continue to do whatever you want.  And in the future after The Great Garbage Avalanche of 2505 when the US elects a president named Mountain Dew Camacho and big industries "water" vegetables with Brawndo: The Thirst Mutilator and wonder why they won't grow like in Mike Judge's film Idiocracy, the water-drinkers will have to save the earth from destruction.  :)

I just finished an article in the August issue of Scientific American about the growing field of "flavor modification".  Where food makers will be able to make food more nutritious and mask the flavor by adding compounds that fool the tast receptors.  Interesting things soy products that taste good?  These products are already in use.  "Natural foods" are a thing of the past, unless you hide in the woods and like to whittle. 

Original Post by dartrinton:

heh, that was acutally a question on one of my chem exams

i always find it funny when people fall for that one

be careful not to drink it, its poison!

Johnny was a Chemist's son..

But Johnny is no more.

For what Johnny thought was H2O

Was H2SO4