So I poured a coffee for myself. I turn around to fill my cup with ice. Low and behold, there is a girl barely tall enough to dispense the ice filling her medium sized cup with Coke, to the rim. And I'm pretty certain this was even a refill. She was maybe 5 or 6.
5 or 6 years old sipping her caffeine and high fructose corn syrup and caramel color and carbonation and sodium benzoate.
This is when I want to scream and shout and educate. This is when I want to run over to her mother to ask if she is aware her beautiful daughter is ingesting a stimulating sugary concoction that very may well cause her to be obese or suffer type 2 diabetes. But I didn't.
Instead I'm using this blog post as an outlet.
But wait. There's more. I'm waiting at the cross walk. A cute boy is waiting on his bike to cross too. In hand, a brown paper bag with the Del Taco label. This is the food he is using to fuel his brain at 7:58 am (yes, I'm walking & typing. Cheers modern technology).
This is why I worry about not only my own kids, but the future of all kids in America. If things like this don't change, I hate to say... Their future ain't looking so bright.
The ONE beverage I wish was never created & I wish would disappear ... soda. What good does it do for your body? Tell me one thing, and I'll go away... kidding! But really, aside from keeping you awake if you drink the caffeinated kind, I'd love to hear one single solitary benefit to adding this to your diet.
The ONE beverage I wish was never created & I wish would disappear ... soda. What good does it do for your body? Tell me one thing, and I'll go away... kidding! But really, aside from keeping you awake if you drink the caffeinated kind, I'd love to hear one single solitary benefit to adding this to your diet.
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. *source: nutrition research center
*All I want to do is share. I'm not here to judge or say you are wrong and I am right. That is never my intention. Perhaps by learning something new, I have helped you in some way, shape or form.
I'm trying to make little changes here and there! Thanks for your post. I'm starting to recognize the same thing going on.
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