What happens when you drink a Coke

[cintagothy]

http://nutritionresearchcenter.org/healthnews/?p=140

Excerpt:

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.

Comments

[allenjames]

That's some crazy $h!t! I was never a big soda drinker and I haven't had a soda in months.

Actually, I can't really remember the last time I had a soda!

Wow. and I thought the stuff was *bad* for you...

[bobd830]

heroin at $3/12pk. Now we know why the Soviet Union collapsed. No pathetic collective farmer under the thumb of an indifferent oligarchy could compete with the industrialist might of a nation in snack-fueled frenzied pursuit of

"the bone-warping gravity of smack. The almighty presence of the world's most fiercely sought commodity. Cordite for the weltanshauung. Whole kilograms of fiercely concentrated damage. ... the cold blue shimmer of junk sickness. The consumer God of Pain and Fear from the red-hot spoon, scourge of and from the century's boards, syndicates and governments, filthy deals consummated in a million lavatories, the needle people the insect people the vegetable people, hi-fi junk note metal fixes on a twentieth-century nod-out." Bruce Sterling, Zeitgeist

They sell organic corn chips too, right? Or is that Pepsi? Really, I only need just one...

Thank God for Diet Dr Pepper!

[balin93]

This is why I drink Diet Dr Pepper instead. All of the flavor, none of the sugar. Only good, natural Aspartame, as the Lord intended. =)