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Do you want to be truly healthy? Then the first step for your health is to stop drinking sweet fizzy drinks, which harm human health for many reasons. In today’s article you will learn what happens to our body if we attack it specifically with Coca-Cola. It only takes 10 minutes for 10 teaspoons of sugar to enter your body.
Sugar
10 teaspoons of sugar represent 100% of the recommended daily sugar intake for a person and the only reason I don’t vomit from so much sweetness is that phosphoric acid, as another component of Coca-Cola, suppresses this sweetness.
Within 20 minutes your blood sugar level spikes sharply and subsequently the liver, in response to the pancreas releasing a mass of insulin, begins converting this enormous amount of sugar directly into fat.
Within 40 minutes the absorption of caffeine is completely finished, your pupils dilate significantly, your blood pressure rises sharply and the liver pumps more sugar into the bloodstream.
Around the 45th minute your body increases dopamine production, which stimulates the nerve receptors in the human brain—incidentally a physiologically identical response to heroin.
After 60 minutes you will reach a sharp drop in blood sugar level.
How many sweet fizzy drinks have you drunk today? And what about your children?
Americans
In 2005 white bread, which until then represented the largest source of calories in Americans’ diets, was overtaken by sweet carbonated non-alcoholic beverages.
The average American drinks more than 200 liters of sweetened beverages each year.
So before you reach for another bottle or can of such a drink, please keep in mind that each 3 dcl serving contains approximately 10 teaspoons of sugar, respectively 150 calories, 30 to 50 mg of caffeine and is also pumped full of artificial colorings and sulfates.
Not to mention that it is your biggest source of dangerous high-fructose syrup, produced mainly from genetically modified corn.
Main ingredients of these drinks
Phosphoric acid
It can disrupt the body’s ability to utilize calcium, leading to osteoporosis and softening of teeth and bones
Sugar
It is proven that sugar raises insulin levels, which can lead to high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart disease, diabetes, obesity, premature aging and many other negative consequences. Most sweetened drinks contain over 100% of the recommended daily sugar intake. Sugar is so harmful to your health in so many ways that there are even lists containing over 100 possible consequences.
Aspartame (E951)
This chemical is used as a sugar substitute in so-called diet drinks. 92 possible negative consequences have been recorded in connection with aspartame consumption, including brain tumors, birth defects, diabetes, mental disorders and epileptic seizures
Caffeine: drinks containing caffeine can cause nervousness, tremors, insomnia, high blood pressure, irregular heartbeat, increased cholesterol, depletion of minerals and vitamins, breast lumps and birth defects
Tap water
Despite frequent claims by the relevant state authorities about the safety of tap water, it is recommended not to drink it, because it can contain a number of chemicals, including chlorine, trihalomethanes, lead, cadmium and a number of organic contaminants (polychlorinated biphenyls and the like)
Obesity
It is clear that excessive consumption of sweet non-alcoholic beverages is one of the main reasons for the worsening global obesity epidemic.
One independent study published in the British medical journal The Lacent demonstrated a strong link between consumption of sweetened drinks and childhood obesity.
It was found that 12-year-old children who regularly drank these beverages had a much higher incidence of obesity than children who did not drink them.
In fact, drinking just one sweetened drink a day during the nearly two-year study increased the risk of obesity by 60%. It should be emphasized that this refers to obesity characterized as excessively high overweight, i.e. already a pathological condition, not ordinary overweight.
To illustrate further, here’s another fact – one sweetened drink a day can add up to 8 kilograms to total weight over one year.
Statistics concerning the risks of sweetened drinks
- One drink a day increases the risk of diabetes by 85%
- Their consumers are exposed to an increased risk of cancer.
- The health limit for the presence of benzene in water is 5 molecules of benzene per 1 million molecules of water (so-called 5 ppm).
- Analyses of sweetened drinks found concentrations of up to 79 ppm in some of them and out of more than 100 tested brands the majority contained at least some amount of benzene
- It has been shown that these drinks tend to damage DNA. The main culprit here is sodium benzoate, a commonly added preservative, which has the ability to deactivate vital sections of DNA. This can eventually lead to catastrophes such as liver cirrhosis or Parkinson’s disease.
If you currently drink sweet fizzy drinks, quitting them is a simple way to improve your health.
Clean water is a much better choice
Or if you cannot give them up completely, try at least drinking sparkling mineral water flavored with fresh lemon or lime juice. There is absolutely no reason for children to drink these beverages.
And no excuses
Eliminating sweetened drinks from your drinking regimen is one of the most important factors in dealing with health problems that you or your children suffer from.
If you suffer from addiction (and know that sugar causes greater addiction than cocaine), then either find enough willpower to overcome it. Similar to how smokers quit cigarettes, or, if it would be unmanageable for you, there are various psychological methods available for getting rid of addiction.
One such method is, for example, the “Turbo Tapping” method based on emotional freedom techniques.
