What Happens when you Drink a Can of Soda
Here is what happens within an hour of drinking a can of soda:
Within 20 minutes, you get a sugar high. Your blood sugar spikes, resulting in a quick release of the hormone insulin. The liver tries to compensate by turning excessive sugar into fat and storing it around the body.
Within 40 minutes, all the caffeine is absorbed and your body responds to this substance: the pupils dilate, blood pressure rises, and the liver dumps even more sugar into the bloodstream.
Around 45 minutes after you have had your drink, the body increases dopamine production, which gives the person an imminent sensation of pleasure – this is similar to the way the body responds to heroin.
After 60 minutes, you develop a sugar crash. You can experience fatigue, change in mood, lethargy, mental fogginess.
A can of coke contains about 10 teaspoons of sugar, which amounts to 100% of your recommended daily intake.
The extreme sweetness is masked by phosphoric acid, which prevents the body from developing an immediate reaction to the glucose overload. Here is how phosphoric acid can destroy your bones.
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