What happens to your body when you drink a can of Coke?
"In the first 10 minutes, a person consumes around 10 teaspoons of sugar (100 per cent of your recommended daily intake), and though the level of sweetness should make one vomit, the phosphoric acid cuts the flavour allowing one to keep it down.
After 20 minutes, the body's blood sugar spikes giving an insulin burst and the liver responds by turning sugar into fat. Caffeine absorption is complete by 40 minutes after which pupils dilate, blood pressure rises, and as a response liver dumps more sugar into bloodstream.
The adenosine receptors in the brain get blocked preventing drowsiness.
After 45 minutes, the body ups a person's dopamine production stimulating the pleasure centres of the brain, which is physically the same way heroin works, and after an hour the caffeine's diuretic properties come into play. The buzz dies down and person starts to have a sugar crash."
I was addicted to the stuff, having 2 or 3 cans per day for years. Sami was
addicted to the stuff, having 5 cans per day for years. We both became diabetic.
I would like to see a graph of Coke sales compared to type 2 diabetic incidence
over time country by country and worldwide. Well here is the data for the US...
There was a levelling off in US diabetes incidence from 1981-1990 which corresponded with a levelling off of soft drink intake in the US from 1980-1987. But then the soft drink intake went mad in 1988 and that caused a spike in diabetes incidence from 1991 onwards. Diabetes incidence lags about 2/3 years behind sugary soft drink consumption. The match is so precise. Clearly candy (sweets, confection) is not the culprit. Figure 4 shows that candy consumption has remained static. It is soft drinks and their marketing that has caused the diabetes epidemic.
The two dips in the Figure1 US sugar consumption graph are due to WW1 and WW2.
Borrow a testing kit from a friendly neighbourhood diabetic or doctor. Do
this if you are extra thirsty or have numbness or paralysis in your toes or feel
really tired or have persistent ringworm or thrush!
Do this if you drink a lot of sugary soft drinks or eat a lot of chocolate cake
or drink a lot of fruit juice!
If the average is less than 5.3 mmol/L or 95 mg/dl then you are normal
If the average is between 5.3 and 5.8 mmol/L or between 95 and 105 mg/dl then
you are glucose intolerant (pre-diabetic)
If the average is above 5.8 mmol/L or 105 mg/dl then you are either diabetic or
eating/drinking way too much sugar.
To prevent diabetes in a normal person just do this...
1. Stop drinking all sugary soft drinks. No Soda.
2. No fruit juice - eat the fruit instead.
3. 2500 IU Vitamin D3 every day
4. 2 grams of EPA and 1 gram of DHA from triple strength fish oil every day
5. 20 grams of chia seed every day.
If you are glucose intolerant or prediabetic then you need to go a bit further as follows...
1. Stop drinking all sugary soft drinks. No Soda.
2. No fruit juice - eat the fruit instead.
3. No chocolate or confection or sweets or candy or cakes or cookies or biscuits
or pastries or doughnuts or scones or waffles or sugary desserts.
4. No sugar in tea or coffee - Go sugar free
5. No rice and limit the amount and no high carb bread bread, no pizza.
6. Limit and pasta and noodles.
7. Walk 30 minutes every day preferably before bed.
8. 25000 IU vitamin D3 every day
9. 3 grams of EPA and 2 gram of DHA from triple strength fish oil every day
10. 15 grams of flax seed every day. 25 grams of chia seed every day.
11. Limit meat based saturated fat to 30 grams per day
12. Limit dairy based sat fat to 20 grams per day
13. No sunflower oil or corn oil or safflower oil Limit Omega6 to 10 grams
per day.