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The brains behind website The Renegade Pharmacist has revealed exactly what a refreshing can of Coke does to your system within the first hour of drinking it. And it's not pretty.
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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 flavour, allowing you to keep it down.
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 flavour, allowing you to keep it down.
45 minutes in
Your body ups your dopamine production stimulating the pleasure centres of your brain. This is physically the same way heroin works, by the way.
originally posted by: VictorVonDoom
It's hard to believe that the government would allow a company to sell a product that is so detrimental to a person's health. I'm sure the fact that soft drinks are a multi-billion dollar industry has a lot to do with the government turning a blind eye to the adverse health effects.
Now if you all will excuse me, I'm late for a flu vaccine shot.
originally posted by: lonegurkha
Since the sweetener in coke is high fructose corn syrup you might find this interesting.princeton research
You might find this interesting as well. metabolism of sugars
The corn system operates at a big cost to taxpayers. Finally, the corn system receives more subsides from the U.S. government than any other crop, including direct payments, crop insurance payments and mandates to produce ethanol. In all, U.S. crop subsidies to corn totaled roughly $90 billion between 1995 and 2010—not including ethanol subsidies and mandates, which helped drive up the price of corn.
Today, one of the biggest corn subsidies come in the form of federally supported crop insurance. In fact, for the 2012 season U.S. crop insurance programs will likely pay out an estimated $20 billion or more—shattering all previous records. Amazingly, these record subsidies are being paid as corn just had one of the most lucrative years in history. Even with the 2012 drought, high prices meant that U.S. corn broke record sales figures. Do record subsidies make sense during a year of record sales?
www.scientificamerican.com...
originally posted by: PersonneX
- You are far more dependent of sugar than coc aine, since... YOU F***** NEED IT TO SURVIVE!