Your Body Is A Wonderland
Of all the "bad" things that I can find to eat or drink, the one thing that makes me feel the most guilt is a can of Coke. I guess because there are no real redeeming qualities. At least a caramel macchiato has milk. At least a chocolate-chip cookie is in solid form. A can of Coke is just perfect, frosty, good, bubbly sugar. But now my guilt has been validated by this article, which asks the question "What Happens To Your Body If You Drink A Coke Right Now?"
"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. "
My guilty feelings have increased exponentially, yet I kind of want a Coke now anyway. Via Pop Culture Junk Mail.
"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. "
My guilty feelings have increased exponentially, yet I kind of want a Coke now anyway. Via Pop Culture Junk Mail.
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How about this article? http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2505374,00.html
I haven't had a chance to read it all yet, but just the headline kind of makes my blood boil... "Larger-size clothes should come with warning to lose weight, say experts"
I thought it was interesting going over the comments - is it just me, or does it sound like someone from Coke got on there?
I'm a diet soda drinker, going all the way back to the heyday of Tab (shudder...). My mom was always dieting, and always putting me on diets, so I started drinking the stuff at probably age 6 or 7, and have consumed roughly a vat of it every day since. It was scary to see that apparently the diet stuff has the same effect as the sugar stuff - - I always assumed I was probably getting brain cancer or something from the artificial sweetener, but it didn't occur to me that my body might still be handling it like sugar.
You're right, reading that shouldn't make me want one, but I could totally go for a coke now.
I wonder how harmful it is to drink regular soda right before a workout? I had a coke once before I went swimming (I was hungry and didn't want a heavy full stomach), and it was a GREAT workout. All that sugar really energized me, I swam for longer than I do usually. I know that exercise immediately following a high fat meal can reverse the artery hardening response to the fats. Wonder if there's similar mechanisms that would decrease the bad effects of soda?
That would sure explain my fatty liver. Giving up Coke was one of the hardest things I've ever done. Ironically, it's one of the only healthy changes I've made that has actually stuck. In the last four years, I've probably had a total of 5 servings of the stuff.
Rosemary Grace, some athletes consider Coke to be a great energy drink. A lot of marathoners in particular like to drink diluted Coke during races.
Here is one article on Coke and athletic performance.
I love Coke, but gave it up this year. My boss keeps our fridge stocked with it, so it was really hard, since they beckon constantly, but especially around 3:00 p.m.
Hi
Can't be that bad in China Coke is called "ke kou ke le"
which translates to “permit the mouth to rejoice”
William
I don't even like Coke very much, so that post should make me feel self-righteous, but instead I feel threatened, like I do whenever I'm not in a healthy phase and read anything about nutrition or weight loss. Luckily I can rationalize away the author's, um, authority by noting that "dialate" is emphatically not a word.
I just read the article that Rosemary Grace linked to. Printing the number of an obesity helpline on the labels of plus-size clothing is just... bizarre. And totally unhelpful. Does the idiot (sorry, academic) who came up with this idea seriously think that plus-sized people don't realise they're plus sized?
I'm the odd one out I guess. I'm the token fat lady shopping in Whole Foods. I prefer tea or coffee. When I do take an odd sip of soda--my mind still thinks Dr. Pepper might taste good--it is always too sweet and aftertaste-y for me to have another sip.
The labels in clothing thing is crazy.
Karrie, Your Whole Foods must be very different from mine. I do most of my shopping in various organic food stores and have never felt like a token fat person; we are all over those places. One year I worked at a vegan restaurant and 2/3 of the other people working there were fat like me.
But I love me some Coke.
--Christina
haha... I'm a coke addict, 3 years clean now. I eventually replaced it with Dr. Pepper, but man I won't take a sip of coke. I'd be back on it in a second. Nothing used to be better than "the burn!" of it running down my throat. I did lose a lot of weight when I quit coke and did everything right. I'm struggling once again!
After hearing all of you talk about Coke...now I want to stop and get me a fountain soda on the way home from work! I prefer it with LOTS of ice so it's super cold when I drink it.
MMMM!
There's a reason they call it Coke.
Also, phosphoric acid WILL leach the calcium from your bones.
Let's all have some dark chocolate instead.
Hee.
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