Another reason I don't drink soda

[adairusmc]

Originally posted by: ktehmok

Originally posted by: Zeppelin2282
Do you want to be healthy? Drinking soda is bad for your health in so many ways; science can't even state all the consequences. Here's what happens in your body when you assault it with a Coke:

Within the first 10 minutes, 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. This is 100 percent of your recommended daily intake, and the only reason you don't vomit as a result of the overwhelming sweetness is because phosphoric acid cuts the flavor.

Within 20 minutes, your blood sugar spikes, and your liver responds to the resulting insulin burst by turning massive amounts of sugar into fat.

Within 40 minutes, caffeine absorption is complete; your pupils dilate, your blood pressure rises, and your livers dumps more sugar into your bloodstream.

Around 45 minutes, your body increases dopamine production, which stimulates the pleasure centers of your brain, a physically identical response to that of heroin, by the way.

After 60 minutes, you'll start to have a sugar crash.

Sources:
Nutrition Research Center October 24, 2007

How many sodas have you had today? How about your kids? As of 2005, white bread was dethroned as the number one source of calories in the American diet, being replaced by soft drinks.

The average American drinks more than 60 gallons of soft drinks each year, but before you grab that next can of soda, consider this: one can of soda has about 10 teaspoons of sugar, 150 calories, 30 to 55 mg of caffeine, and is loaded with artificial food colors and sulphites. Not to mention the fact that it?s also your largest source of dangerous high-fructose modified corn syrup.

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Nature didn't intend on you living to be 80-90 years old. You were supposed to die in your 40's, after you past the point of being useful to anyone.

That is why there is soda, cigarettes, alcohol, cancer, Alzheimer's, etc. Fucking die already, you old shits.

Die

Die

Die

I'm 38 BTW, and I welcome the end in 2 years. Not that it will happen. I will probably have a tube stuck in my ass to keep me alive for 20 years so that the medical industry leeches can make money.

:thumbsup:

One of the best posts I have read here.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: KK

Originally posted by: Zeppelin2282


Within the first 10 minutes, 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. This is 100 percent of your recommended daily intake, and the only reason you don't vomit as a result of the overwhelming sweetness is because phosphoric acid cuts the flavor.

I call BS on this whole thing because of this right here. Take sweet tea for example, I'm sure it's sugar content rivals or exceeds a cokes, pop, or soda, whatever you call them. And I don't see people throwing up, why is that?

Check out my post farther up. I list the sugar content of some other drinks, including Kool-Aid, which lacks the phosphoric acid and its magic flavor-killing abilities.
(Also check out my post about the article's author, Wade Meredith - there's nothing in the background that's related to chemistry or biology.)

According to Wikianswers, there are 4 grams in one teaspoon of sugar, so that'd be 40 grams of sugar in 10 teaspoons. Coke has 3.375g/oz, so 12oz of Coke have 40.5 grams of sugar. And according to this, 40g is the recommended amount of refined sugar for a 2000 calorie diet. That much is apparently legit.
But the throwing up part? Uh uh, not even close.

 

[Ns1]

i drink soda because it's tasty.

 

[evident]

i would place a nice bet on the reason so many americans and and american kids are fat is because soda contains so much HFCS and i see people go through bottles a day!!!!

 

[Pepsi90919]

Originally posted by: everman
It's not called "pop," nor is "coke" a general term for soda. Soda is the proper term to use.

No, you are incorrect. It is "pop".

 

[uclaLabrat]

Originally posted by: evident
i would place a nice bet on the reason so many americans and and american kids are fat is because soda contains so much HFCS and i see people go through bottles a day!!!!

And you'd lose, big.

Kids are fat because they eat like shit, of which soda is a minor contributor, and then they go home and sit on their ass. You can pound 2L of soda a day and be thin, if you just burn the calories. I used to drink soda all time, eat like absolute crap, and the only time I'd be even pudgy at all was when I sat around a lot. Was it healthy? Not at all. But your body can do quite well at adapting.

HFCS is not the world's evil people. It's a freakin sweetener. It's just a sugar. That's it. Most of the sugars found in plants are fructose anyway. Sucrose (table sugar) is a molecule of glucose and a molecule of fructose bonded together. Your body burns glucose. You body converts the sugars it needs into glucose anyway.

 

[shiner]

Have you never wondered why I drink only distilled water, or rain water, and only pure grain alcohol?

 

[IronWing]

Originally posted by: shinerburke
Have you never wondered why I drink only distilled water, or rain water, and only pure grain alcohol?

They have drugs that can help with that, um, issue now

 

[Excelsior]

Originally posted by: legoman666

Originally posted by: destrekor

Originally posted by: BoomerD

Originally posted by: Wheezer
Not to mention that some of the ingredients are flammable....lotsa fun on a boring night

<----ex-Pepsi employee.

and yes...it's pop....at least in the civilized states

Well, since your profile shows you in Ohio...I guess you wouldn't really know about civilized states now would ya? After all, isn't Ohio one of those "fly-over states?

only us Ohio citizens can talk down about Ohio! You leave us alone dammit!

it's pop god dammit!

Local Cincinnati, OH resident. And proud.

No...it isn't pop. Its soda. Christ people, no one cares what you call it in Ohio. You can be wrong all day long if you'd like, but it is soda.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I drink a few pepsis per day, the only concern I have is how its bad for my teeth, since its been a couple times now that I get the news that I got a cavity when I go to my detal apointment.

The actual article is probably based on chugging a can of coke though. If you drink it over the course of like an hour its probably not as bad. I tend to drink mine very slowly. I can sometimes be even 2 hours on the same can. I find it more of a habit then a thirst quencher. If I'm really thirsty I drink water first. I sometimes do the mistake of chugging one, but then I'm at the washroom every 5 minutes for the rest of the day, so I avoid doing that.

 

[Throckmorton]

Why don't soda cans state sugar as % of RDV? Soda company lobbyists? I had no idea that the 14 teaspoons of sugar in a can of soda exceed the sugar RDV

 

[Throckmorton]

Originally posted by: KK

Originally posted by: Zeppelin2282


Within the first 10 minutes, 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. This is 100 percent of your recommended daily intake, and the only reason you don't vomit as a result of the overwhelming sweetness is because phosphoric acid cuts the flavor.

I call BS on this whole thing because of this right here. Take sweet tea for example, I'm sure it's sugar content rivals or exceeds a cokes, pop, or soda, whatever you call them. And I don't see people throwing up, why is that?

Sweet tea probably doesn't exceed the sugar content of soda. Make yourself a cup of tea with 4 teaspoons of sugar. It will taste at least as sweet as "sweet tea" but has 1/3 the sugar content as soda, yet tastes sweeter.

 

[IronWing]

Originally posted by: Excelsior

No...it isn't pop. Its soda. Christ people, no one cares what you call it in Ohio. You can be wrong all day long if you'd like, but it is soda.

WTF! You're in North Carolina and you're calling pop soda?????? Jesus H. Christ, it's got to look like the rapture over there with generations of dead Southerners trying to bust out of their graves to strangle your Yankee ass. It's COKE!!!!


Being from the correct side of the Mason Dixon line I, of course, pronounce it correctly...pop.

 

[drum]

Originally posted by: BoomerD

Originally posted by: Wheezer
Not to mention that some of the ingredients are flammable....lotsa fun on a boring night

<----ex-Pepsi employee.

and yes...it's pop....at least in the civilized states

Well, since your profile shows you in Ohio...I guess you wouldn't really know about civilized states now would ya? After all, isn't Ohio one of those "fly-over states?

:|

 

[KK]

Originally posted by: Throckmorton

Originally posted by: KK

Originally posted by: Zeppelin2282


Within the first 10 minutes, 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. This is 100 percent of your recommended daily intake, and the only reason you don't vomit as a result of the overwhelming sweetness is because phosphoric acid cuts the flavor.

I call BS on this whole thing because of this right here. Take sweet tea for example, I'm sure it's sugar content rivals or exceeds a cokes, pop, or soda, whatever you call them. And I don't see people throwing up, why is that?

Sweet tea probably doesn't exceed the sugar content of soda. Make yourself a cup of tea with 4 teaspoons of sugar. It will taste at least as sweet as "sweet tea" but has 1/3 the sugar content as soda, yet tastes sweeter.

1 gallon of sweet tea has 2 cups of sugar. thats what, 128 oz and 96 teaspoons. There are 10.666 12oz servings in one gallon. Dividing 96 teaspoons by 10.666 give you about 9 teaspoons per 12 oz. Not quite the 10 in soda, but close. Still I have never thrown up on sweet tea, and I can down much more than a 12 oz serving.

 

[PolymerTim]

Originally posted by: txrandom
Also, is pure HCl acidic? That doesn't make sense because it wouldn't be in aqueous form with itself.

Actually, hydrochloric acid is a solution of hydrochloride (gas) in water and so there is no solid, pure acid resiue. The gas only acts as an acid in solutions with molecules that can be protonated (such as but not limited to water). Pure HCl is generally considered to be a 37-38% solution in water (with a pH of -1.1) since this is the max solubility. Anything more is considered "fuming" because the excess undissolved HCl gas escapes from the solution and reacts with humidity in the air to form more acid (fun stuff to get a sniff of ).

On the original topic, while I agree it is healthier to not drink a lot of cokes (at least thats how we call 'em where I'm from), I'd put it on a list of a couple hundred other things we could do to be healthier. I think it is up to each person to consider the priorities in their life and figure out how to live them. In that these studies give us information to know what we are doing, they can be helpful, but far too many articles (like this one) use overly agressive scare tactics to push their point.

It is scary to see just how easy it is (especially for an expert in the field or a statistician) to twist results to fit their needs. I've learned enough to realize that "recommended by doctors" means nothing. Here is one of my favorite examples for those that would like a very in-depth illustration of this technique.

Dihydrogen monoxide

As far as I am aware, this very extensive list of facts about dihydrogen monoxide is completely true. If anyone finds an incorrect statement, I would love to see it. For those who don't like to bother with links, I'll give a couple quick quotes from the site:

Dihydrogen Monoxide (DHMO) is a colorless and odorless chemical compound, also referred to by some as Dihydrogen Oxide, Hydrogen Hydroxide, Hydronium Hydroxide, or simply Hydric acid. Its basis is the highly reactive hydroxyl radical, a species shown to mutate DNA, denature proteins, disrupt cell membranes, and chemically alter critical neurotransmitters. The atomic components of DHMO are found in a number of caustic, explosive and poisonous compounds such as Sulfuric Acid, Nitroglycerine and Ethyl Alcohol.

Each year, Dihydrogen Monoxide is a known causative component in many thousands of deaths and is a major contributor to millions upon millions of dollars in damage to property and the environment. Some of the known perils of Dihydrogen Monoxide are:
[*]Death due to accidental inhalation of DHMO, even in small quantities.
[*]Prolonged exposure to solid DHMO causes severe tissue damage.
[*]Excessive ingestion produces a number of unpleasant though not typically life-threatening side-effects.
[*]DHMO is a major component of acid rain.
[*]Gaseous DHMO can cause severe burns.
[*]Contributes to soil erosion.
[*]Leads to corrosion and oxidation of many metals.
[*]Contamination of electrical systems often causes short-circuits.
[*]Exposure decreases effectiveness of automobile brakes.
[*]Found in biopsies of pre-cancerous tumors and lesions.
[*]Given to vicious dogs involved in recent deadly attacks.
[*]Often associated with killer cyclones in the U.S. Midwest and elsewhere, and in hurricanes including deadly storms in Florida, New Orleans and other areas of the southeastern U.S.
[*]Thermal variations in DHMO are a suspected contributor to the El Nino weather effect.

Don't believe everything you read. Even if its true, it can be misleading.

 

[Locut0s]

Originally posted by: iamme
my work gives us unlimited soda and drinks.....i drink an obscene amount per day.

Ditto. Though I only drink diet Pepsi.

 

[SunnyD]

I think I'm going to go around selling soda to minors on school grounds...

 

[shiner]

Originally posted by: ironwing

Originally posted by: shinerburke
Have you never wondered why I drink only distilled water, or rain water, and only pure grain alcohol?

They have drugs that can help with that, um, issue now

We cannot allow a mineshaft gap!!!

 

[Journer]

i've stopped drinking soda for the most part. i'll have some now and then to treat myself, but i've found it cheaper and easier to just order/drink water...

 

[Duddy]

I drink about 6 cans of Coke per day. And I can't remember the last time I had ANY water.

 

[Wreckem]

Originally posted by: Throckmorton

Originally posted by: KK

Originally posted by: Zeppelin2282


Within the first 10 minutes, 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. This is 100 percent of your recommended daily intake, and the only reason you don't vomit as a result of the overwhelming sweetness is because phosphoric acid cuts the flavor.

I call BS on this whole thing because of this right here. Take sweet tea for example, I'm sure it's sugar content rivals or exceeds a cokes, pop, or soda, whatever you call them. And I don't see people throwing up, why is that?

Sweet tea probably doesn't exceed the sugar content of soda. Make yourself a cup of tea with 4 teaspoons of sugar. It will taste at least as sweet as "sweet tea" but has 1/3 the sugar content as soda, yet tastes sweeter.

Depends where you buy your sweet to from or if you make it at home.

Alot of fastfood places use about 2 cups per gallon. 459grams per 128oz. 3.5g per 1 oz. Sweet tea is better though, sugar is much better for you than high fructose corn syrup.

 

[Zenmervolt]

It's a good thing that the OP listed a reputable source like Mercola. I'd hate to see the credibility hit this would take if the proof were just some crackpot who has been smacked down by the FDA or something.

Oh.. Wait...

Come on people. If you sincerely believe the utter bullshit that Mercola and his cronies spew, then I have some lovely oceanfront lots in AZ that might interest you. Cash only, non-sequential small bills please.

ZV

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
It's a good thing that the OP listed a reputable source like Mercola. I'd hate to see the credibility hit this would take if the proof were just some crackpot who has been smacked down by the FDA or something.

Oh.. Wait...

Come on people. If you sincerely believe the utter bullshit that Mercola and his cronies spew, then I have some lovely oceanfront lots in AZ that might interest you. Cash only, non-sequential small bills please.

ZV

Owned.

Although, it's hard to argue that soda is good for you... Just cause a crackpot says it doesn't mean it's wrong. I used to be shamelessly addicted to Coke; I've almost comlpetely cut soda out of my diet and it's been great. I figured it would suck, but I haven't wanted a soda in weeks.

But I probably shouldn't have replaced it with heroin...

 

[SithSolo1]

I still drink coke but I've turned to "Zero" and "Diet" branded cans/bottles. I dunno if they are better but they taste about the same.