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335 opinions for What Happens To Your Body If You Drink A Coke Right Now?

• franky4eyes
  Dec 8, 2006 at 5:16 pm

  That’s neat information, but do you have any credible sources to cite? As far as anyone knows, this information could be equivalent to your mom telling you not to make funny faces because they’ll become permanent.

• MrChonks
  Dec 8, 2006 at 5:20 pm

  In addition to the latter, what about drinking Diet Coke? Does the body react similarly to aspartame?

• muggins
  Dec 8, 2006 at 5:53 pm

  Wow. Although I can’t say that I’m surprised. I would be interested to know if aspartame or Splenda has the same or similar effect on your body. Where did you get this info - sounds like an interesting info source!

• Wade
  Dec 8, 2006 at 6:20 pm

  I’ll get my sources together and post them along with the article (most of them online, but I also had an MD consult on this article about some blood chemistry issues. He mainly just looked over the article and said that it was on the up and up after he corrected some of the time line issues.)

• Aaron
  Dec 8, 2006 at 6:43 pm

  I’ve been searching online for some information about the caffeine levels in different sodas. I would love to see a chart comparing the caffeine levels in different sodas or other popular caffeinated drinks. (coffee, tea, redbull)

• Dtorro
  Dec 8, 2006 at 7:42 pm

  Here is a chart

  http://www.powershot.ca/site/index.php?l=eng&c=red&s=ac

  [editor's note: this looks suspiciously like a plug, and the chart isn't that helpful at all. See the comment below for a complete chart of caffeine containing beverages.]

• Wade
  Dec 8, 2006 at 7:44 pm

  As requested I’ve added a further reading/sources section.

  MrChonks, Aspertame and other artificial sweeteners have to been shown to have a similar effect on your system. They’re fairly good at fooling your body chemistry as well as your taste buds.

  Aaron, you want to look right here for a list of caffeine levels.

• aantix
  Dec 8, 2006 at 9:56 pm

  All the more reason as to why you shouldn’t use cola as a source of hydration.

  Jim
  RunFatBoy ( http://www.runfatboy.net ) - Exercise for the rest of us.

• jdid
  Dec 9, 2006 at 3:39 pm

  You didn’t disclose how much coke you were talking about, 10 tsps of sugar is about 46 grams, maybe a little more. A 12oz can of soda has 39g at most. A recommended allowance is about 300g of carbs/day. One 12-16oz coke is not going to be 100% of your daily needs… or did you mean 10%? Even in diabetic patients… they need 4 oz of coke (or other sugary drink) just to get out of hypoglycemia (BG

• overhaul
  Dec 9, 2006 at 6:42 pm

  I think this neatly falls into this category:
  http://www.thecoca-colacompany.com/contactus/myths_rumors/index.html
  Why is that?
  How come that people sued cigarette corporations for causing lung cancer, and even Mcdonalds for obesity, and no single one smart lawyer figured that money sack like coke or pepsi can make rich some fat citizen with unwell liver (and offcourse lawyer who figured it can win the case, because some scientific investigation can actually proove any of this)?
  Can bees honey be even more fatal? How much shugar is in teaspoon of honey? Lethal dose?

• TomD
  Dec 9, 2006 at 8:38 pm

  From to Snopes.com, a debunking web site:

  “Additionally, the idea that one must specifically drink water because the diuretic effects of caffeinated drinks such as coffee, tea, and soda actually produce a net loss of fluid appears to be erroneous. The average person retains about half to two-thirds the amount of fluid taken in by consuming these types of beverages, and those who regularly consume caffeinated drinks retain even more:”

  http://www.snopes.com/medical/myths/8glasses.asp

• TomD
  Dec 9, 2006 at 8:41 pm

  According to Wikipedia, consumption of cafeine results in “…in increased alertness and wakefulness, faster and clearer flow of thought, increased focus, and better general body coordination…”

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cafeine#Effects

• Poop_heaD
  Dec 9, 2006 at 8:49 pm

  Ya but carbohydrates and sugars are kinda different. Yes sugars are carbohydrates but they are simple sugars that will go right through your system and be turned into fat like the article says. Other carbohydrates like whole grains take longer to break down and are better carbs/sugars for you. You also can’t just say well your supposed to get so many carbs, fats, protiens a day. Cause you just cant eat a cup of sugar and take a vitamin and be “healthy” Sugars and Carbs are not equal.

• TomD
  Dec 9, 2006 at 8:50 pm

  According to Wikipedia, “It has been claimed that an excess of phosphorus may lead to poor bone density. However medical research indicates that exactly the opposite is the case” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphoric_acid#Biological_effects_on_bone_calcium

  So apparently the people who have studied this phenomenon-first hand have exactly the opposite opinion of you.

• lmr
  Dec 9, 2006 at 8:50 pm

  Aspartame is a dangerous ingredient in diet products. Just google it and you’ll find that it breaks down into many components that are harmful to the body, methanol and formaldehyde to name just a few. I’ll take real sugar anyday, of course, the key is moderation.

• TomD
  Dec 9, 2006 at 8:57 pm

  Provocative artical - it provoked me to do some research.

  Let’s put things in context. The definition of a poison is in the dosage. For example, too much salt can kill you, but you need it to survive. There is no such thing as something which is all bad or all good in the real world.

  The key is to quantify, something you did little of in your article. If you can’t quantify something then you don’t really understand it.

  - How much nutrients are supposedly removed from your body? 1%? 99%?
  - How much water is supposedly washed out of your body? 1%? 99?

  If you knew the answers to these questions, you would be a scientist, not a quack.

• TomD
  Dec 9, 2006 at 9:00 pm

  Your claim that aspartame is dangerous is not supported by science. Aspartame is the most studied food additive in history, and there has not been a single study supporting its hazards. If there were one, don’t you think the FDA would have pulled it from the market?

• Wade
  Dec 9, 2006 at 9:20 pm

  Good comments, guys. I’m not a scientist and this is no research paper. I’m a part time blogger and this article is a “distilling of information” that many sources, online and off, agree with. I’m glad it’s sparking this kinds of discussion; that’s it intent.

  Having said all that, I’ll try and field a few comments/criticisms…

  -As far as the amount of Coke concerned, it’s a generalization (like I said, it’s not research). The article says “a Coke” which I’m assuming would mean a 12oz. can or 16oz. bottle depending on what sort vending machine you’re standing next to at the time. Either way it will have at least 40g of sugar in it.

  -Concerning the 10% of daily CARBOHYDRATE requirement vs. the 100% of sugar thing: I was talking about sugar recommendations, not carbs. Sugars are carbohydrates, but they are not universally the same thing.

  -As far as poisons and quantity, this is a great point. For instance: Oxygen is a toxic gas, it’s corrosive and can kill you. But not in small quantities, in small quantities it keeps you alive. Anyway, one Coke will do all this stuff to your body and that’s probably not a bad thing. But if you do it multiple times a day for years, you’ll have a caffeine addiction that you’ll physically experience withdraw from shuold you stop, not to mention a host of other very serious medical problems, so I want people to think about that.

  -I don’t know the amount of nutrients it takes form your body. I couldn’t find specific measurements for this anywhere, but no matter what the amount is, it’s a nutrient that’s being taken away from your body. So imbibe with salt.

  Thanks for jumping in guys!

• lelaiskandar
  Dec 9, 2006 at 9:38 pm

  That’s why every righteous soul should start drinking freshly squeezed juice. Not NAKED or POM.

  But real juice. It’s that simple. But some are dumb enough and drink those packed juices. Dumb! Dumb!

• PROSTREET
  Dec 12, 2006 at 6:13 pm

  I have consumed multiple Cokes daily for forty years. While I agree with your statement on a caffeine addiction, your host of other ailments claim is preposterous. I drank Coca Cola virtually exclusively most of those years and only recently added water and orange juice to my liquid intake. Oh yeah I am neither obese nor unwell. COKE IS IT…..enjoy!

• bdabbs
  Dec 13, 2006 at 7:07 am

  In all fairness, the “this is physically the same way heroin works, by the way” statement is true, but definitely misleading. This (dopamine production) is the same way exercise, being around friends, or playing a game (pretty much anything that makes us feel good) makes us feel good. Mentioning that it is a similar method to that which heroin uses is merely a smear-tactic; it is an attempt at negative association and is a flawed comparison. Using this argument is akin to saying that “City Buses are wheeled transports that can transport people and goods by ground; wheeled ground transports are the same way most drug dealers in the United States distribute their drugs.”

• Wade
  Dec 13, 2006 at 7:45 am

  Good point, bdabbs. this is the way exercise works, or being around friends. However, it’s a reward your brain offers you for doing something good for you, like laughing or the aforementioned exercise. Stimulating these centers artificially, is dangerous if practiced regularly.

  From About.com:
  “Caffeine also increases dopamine levels in the same way that amphetamines do (heroine and cocaine also manipulate dopamine levels by slowing down the rate of dopamine re-uptake). Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that, in certain parts of the brain, activates the pleasure center. Obviously, caffeine’s effect is much lower than heroin’s, but it is the same mechanism. It is suspected that the dopamine connection contributes to caffeine addiction.”

  My intention is not to smear, but to entertain and raise awareness. It’s not like I never drink a Coke, I just think all the stuff it kicks off in your body is really amazing. Especially considering how ubiquitous it has become in our society and around the world.

• hamilcar
  Dec 13, 2006 at 7:50 am

  All you mental midgets need to take Biology 101 again at your local college. Pay extra close attention about the part that says the body is ~70% water. Hence, we need to intake water, not sugar water. Also, read the section in the Biology book about high fructose corn syrup, the stuff is bad for your body.

• PROSTREET
  Dec 13, 2006 at 5:51 pm

  The human body must process water in many forms….otherwise I would have died long ago.

• kevbo
  Dec 14, 2006 at 1:42 am

  This is stupid…….. i honestly want the minute back that i wasted reading and responding to this blog.

• snap_99
  Dec 14, 2006 at 8:40 am

  For anyone who’s interested, here’s the abstract for a paper that links cola consumption with decreased bone mass density in women. Men do not seem to be affected in the same statistically significant way.

  Tucker et al. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, October, 2006, “Colas, but not other carbonated beverages, are associated with low bone mineral density in older women: The Framingham Osteoporosis Study.”

  You can get the abstract from http://www.pubmed.gov but you need to have a subscription to the journal to read the rest of the study. I have a subscription through my university so that’s how I read it. There has been more research for this in adolescents than in the older population it seems, and there are a couple references to these papers in the Tucker et al. article.

  I’m part of the Killer Coke campaign (www.killercoke.org) which is based around supporting unions by boycotting Coca Cola because of a number of murders the company is responsible for. So naturally I’m a bit biased towards the consumption of cola/soft drinks in general. That being said, I think it’s sort of silly to worry too much about the health affects of cola. People do all sorts of stuff that’s bad for them; that’s part of life, you can trade some bone density for some wakefullness and the pleasure of drinking good tasting cola (assuming you like cola). It is good though to know the trade one is making though.

• wraith
  Dec 14, 2006 at 2:46 pm

  If I may add something - I am not a biologist, but as I clearly remember from my biology lessons at school, liver turns glucose into glycogen which is, in fact, polysaccharide and has nothing to do with fat.
  Glycogen is used as a storage form for glucose - so liver actually works as a sort of battery, storing currently unneeded glucose for later use.
  The thing with fat really is that as you eat, usually you intake a lot of fat - but, since primary energy source is glucose and fat is only secondary, your body will use that stored glucose - and store fat for later use everywhere (mostly in places where you don’t want it to be). If you intake a lot of fat meals regularly, you body will accumulate a lot of fat - which it probably will never need as you are constantly supplying it with glucose, which, I repeat, is it’s primary energy source.
  As a result, you eventually will become obese.

• Hone
  Dec 22, 2006 at 4:06 am

  You are not a biologist wraith and your description of how people become fat is completely wrong.

• thok
  Dec 28, 2006 at 9:22 am

  “t 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.”

  so, this electrolyte you talk of

  what exactly is it again?

  “An electrolyte is a substance containing free ions which behaves as an electrically conductive medium.”

  yet you treat it as though electrolyte is a certain chemical?
  its like saying you evacuate all that stuff and liquid.
  electrolite is a catogory. not a substance.

• shaggyredditt
  Jan 3, 2007 at 6:26 pm

  i am very interested in your article about coke and would like to use some of your data in a study of mine for a science fair if you don’t mind and i would be sure to include you as one of my resources in my research paper

• Marta
  Jan 3, 2007 at 8:51 pm

  Coke also is sweetened with HFCS (high fructose corn syrup) which is really bad for us. It’s packed with calories that our body doesn’t recognize. Actually shutting off our body’s natural appetite control switches, so we can eat and drink it far beyond what our body would normally be able to handle.

• bren1
  Jan 12, 2007 at 11:49 am

  i tried to stop smoking on the 010107 i did about 17 hrs none smoking the reason for this is i was asleep untill 5pm when i got up @ 5pm i had a fag it was great do u think i did good
  bren

• TillHizzy
  Jan 19, 2007 at 10:02 pm

  I dunno theres something about a Coca-Cola that makes you feel better about your life and about yourself… It makes you skin fell good.. Ahhh! I love me a Coke..

• Tharakath
  Jan 19, 2007 at 11:08 pm

  This person must be a Pepsi drinker.. what a hater!!

• mattblack04
  Jan 21, 2007 at 2:49 am

  Aspartame is a very dangerous chemical, although it is subtly and rarely dangerous. See, aspartame is NOT a natural ingredient, meaning nothing in nature makes it, unlike sugar. The chemical has been known to convert to formaldehyde at temperatures above 80 some degrees Fahrenheit. Nothing fatal, but enough to cause some upset stomachs and irritated bowels. In moderate consumption, a good amount of consumers reported headaches, upset stomach, and sometimes nausea. It has also made it harder for the body to convert fat into energy so weightloss becomes much more difficult. For more info, go here: http://www.shirleys-wellness-cafe.com/nutraswt.htm
  this in one of many sites that have studies and facts relating to aspartame and sucralose (Splenda).

  Now not saying it is always dangerous. In low doses it is fine. However, the FDA does not pull it from the market because just that reason, it is okay in low doses. Just like the FDA has a maximum allowance of things such as insects and mouse droppings/hair in certain foods, both of which can be dangerous for humans to consume (the latter moreso) but the FDA does not ban it from being in food entirely because it is in such small doses it doesn’t pose that much of a thread. Link: http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/dalbook.html

  besides, not all simple sugar is converted to fat. Simple sugars really aren’t present in much soda as the sweetener in cola is actually fructose, which is a somewhat complex sugar being C6H12O6. These break down still quickly. This type of sugar is found naturally, like in corn and fruits, and is okay for the body. In fact, in most juices there is almost as much sugar as in a glass of soda (30+ grams for an 8 oz juice vs. 30+ for 8 oz of soda). Whatever sugar you do not burn up will over a couple of hours be converted to fat, but not immediately.

  Ok i’m done.

• Dukkhaman
  Jan 30, 2007 at 5:02 pm

  Re: Aspartame. There IS clinical evidence that aspartame can worsen symptoms in patients with mood disorders such as depression. In addition, it makes sense to me that it could even initiate symptoms in those predisposed to these conditions, especially if the condition existed without having been diagnosed.

  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?CMD=Display&DB=pubmed

  In the above study:

  “… the project was halted by the Institutional Review Board after a total of 13 individuals had completed the study because of the severity of reactions within the group of patients with a history of depression.”

  and,

  researchers concluded, “…that individuals with mood disorders are particularly sensitive to this artificial sweetener and its use in this population should be discouraged.”

  Considering the prevalence of mood disorders, especially in youths, this is quite alarming. Being on meds for depression, I no longer drink any diet soda.

  Thanks for this article Regardless of the debate of some of the finer scientific points of your presentation; it has swayed me to cut as much soda out of my diet as possible.

• commandx0r
  Mar 12, 2007 at 11:42 pm

  That’s INSANE!! I’m never drinking coke again!

• commandx0r
  Mar 12, 2007 at 11:43 pm

  Seriously that’s really messed up!!

  Who woulda thought?

• fromwhatiheard
  Mar 15, 2007 at 2:41 am

  Very interesting article, i posted it on my blog with a link back to here

  http://www.fromwhatiheard.com/2007/03/14/the-effects-drinking-a-coke-has-on-your-body/

• auburn.kitten
  Apr 28, 2007 at 6:41 pm

  What about Dr. Pepper?

• miss kitty
  Apr 30, 2007 at 7:59 am

  It’s pretty much the same. It’s not flavor that matters,it’s the sugar/caffeine/acid trifecta that’s killer.

• April Shipowick
  May 5, 2007 at 4:03 pm

  A little caffeine goes a long ways….for a while. Caffeine is like any addiction, it keeps taking more and more to get the same effect. The downside is that instead of increasing your ability to think clearly, caffeine will eventually prevent clear headedness, increase irritability and anxiety. Especially when combined with sugar!
  April Shipowick

• codecobalt
  May 19, 2007 at 11:10 pm

  FYI:

  I drink at least 6 cans of coke a day. I have drank at least 40 ounces of coke a day since I was 9. I am now 21. I am rarely sick, can drink a coke and go right to bed (always have been able to), never broke a bone, and have had few cavities. I also only drink a glass of milk a month probably… Sure cokes not good for you, but its not gonna kill ya.

• jojo99
  May 23, 2007 at 1:58 pm

  I think I can count on one hand the number of soda’s I have drank and the last soda I had was like 20 years ago. Soda is just expensive sugar/caffeine water. I don’t drink coffee either.

  As to those who say they drink x cans a day and don’t have any problems, it may be that you just don’t know if you have problems. And this is what addicts always say, anyway.

  The human body is a great machine that can compensate and recover from a lot of abuse. But like any machine, it can also operate at varying levels of efficiency. Your body may be operating at 80% of your maximum efficiency level and you wouldn’t know it because to you, 80% = 100%! It’s all you know.

  If you were ever able to experience 100%, then you might have a better idea as to what the missing 20% felt like. Until then, you can’t really say that whatever you are doing/taking has not had any effects.

  If you need to imbibe caffeine to get through your day, then you are depending on a crutch and are definitely impacting your body and mind in some way.

• mmagnett
  May 25, 2007 at 10:03 am

  The real problem with coke is that it contains high fructose corn syrup. High fructose corn syrup bipasses the first step of glycolysis (the conversion of glucose to glucose-6-bisphosphate by glucokinase) and its turned into glucose-6-bisphosphate by hexokinase, a non-regulated enzyme. This non-regulation makes fructose a bad sugar to be putting into the body, because the body has no way of knowing how much it has consumed. This turns into fat. Its a fact, look it up in a biochemistry text book.

• SemiLOOSE
  May 30, 2007 at 3:12 am

  and thats why i LOVE coke!! woohoo!!

• Biochemistry
  Jul 9, 2007 at 3:27 pm

  I am an undergraduate biochemistry/chemistry dual major, and having read the above article and the comments, I wanted to point out a few errors.

  Firstly, the concept of natural. It does not matter if something in naturally occuring or not, if a compound, such as “fake” sugar, is man made, that doesn’t, per se, make it any more dangerous or risky then “normal” sugar. Man made sugars are made by taking real glucose (or other isomers) and removing -OH groups from the sugar and replacing them in other groups, one commonly used one is Cl. The new modified sugar still has the sweet taste of sugar, however, with the new Cl groups there is now natural metabolic process by which your body can consume it, instead it is removed as waste.

  Second, about the health threats of these sugars. There has been some data that suggests that these sugars can be dangerous to consume, however, none of the data is conclusive and there is rival data suggesting the opposite. Furthermore, in the studies which obtain results such has inducing cancer in rats, the rats were consuming several times their body mass a day before any results appears. I find it unlikely that is ever the case with humans, or even rats given the choice.

  Thirdly, sugar, in theory, can be converted into fat, the pathways do exist and some sugar is likely to be converted into fat. However, lipids are a non-ideal fuel source and are only used when sugar, like glucose, or glycogen, is not present. Sugar not readily consume and converted into ATP is converted in glycogen and not fat, as glycogen is a much better fuel source and your body already has the enzymes to use it (unlike some lipids where the enzymes are only produced ondemand).

  In fact, what wraith said above is prefectly in line with what we understand as normal human biochemistry.

  Now a few comments about the article and the comments.

  Firstly, the author says that he had an MD review his article and the doctor made a few corrections. The MD, he says, is a surgeon, and I have nothing to say that a surgeon did not review this article. However, medical doctors, and surgeon, do not as part of their common every day life have to spend time thinking about the biochemical processes related to sugar metabolism. They do learn these things, as we all also learned the state captiols in 3rd grade, however, these are not things which are important to many of us. A surgeon would not need, most likely, to spend much time thinking about metabolism if he was, say, an orthopod or a general surgeon. It is something some doctors need to know, mainly internists, but most forget all but a hazy outline of it. So, in short, having a doctor review the article doesn’t add any authority to the statements, so much as an appeal to authority.

  Secondly, there are a lot of articles of this sort on the internet or that you hear about in everyday life. However, they are almost urban legend like in there content. There isn’t really any firm information, but statements like “the compound then is converted to this new toxic compound.” In what time frame? In what precent? How much reactants and products are there? What is the LD50? Long term effects? Who produced this data? The information here has several errors in it, that I can see have 3 years of biochemistry, and I am sure that is has many more errors that I am not noticing. But what is key is that there are errors, the author is not a biochemistry, and because there are clear errors, you must doubt his sources and statements at all places with regard to this topic. One can never be too critical of laymen writing about science.

• Tickler
  Jul 9, 2007 at 11:47 pm

  Interesting views and opinions. Everything in this world is dangerous if consumed improperly, deadly if used incorrectly.

  One said that this is very provocative… yes it is.
  I just realized and packed it together that COKE and other carbonated beverages contains PHOSPHORIC ACID which was claimed the main culprit in poor bone density, which is also i found out that it’s the same ingredient that is used in cleaning detergents and soaps to kill limes, molds and bacteria.

  Could you imagine, the same ingredient if used in cleaning detergents becomes toxic but if used in beverages becomes nothing.

  Gees! Chemical have absolutely no regard for nature.

• Jacob
  Jul 10, 2007 at 8:14 am

  Yes. The behavior and toxicity of chemicals is fully dependent on their concentration and its chemical enviroment. Chemicals, and nature, have no regard for nature. If something is natural or unnatural says nothing about the nature of the compound at all. Many of the things we safely eat or use every day are unnatural compounds, that shouldn’t worry us at all. They are no more or less dangerous then if they were otherwise.

• Müzikler
  Jul 17, 2007 at 3:55 am

  It stumilates hipotalamus.And your brain starts to produce endorfin.That makes u feel happy .But later as just like ex or other drugs it makes your hormones out of your control.And u drink more and more.No way back..

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  Jul 20, 2007 at 7:07 am

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  wf??

• nakliyat
  Jul 24, 2007 at 3:42 pm

  I have emailed to coke website.And asked them if anything happens to me ,because of drinkink 2.5-3 l coke everyday.I got a reply thar I should chech their website.And I sent another mail.They said as everything , there should also be a limit for coke drinking .

• MLE
  Jul 24, 2007 at 11:02 pm

  Just a couple comments on this:
  YES, caffine does add to anxiety! Trust me i’ve been dealing with anxiety for 4yearsnow i had a doctor tell me to cut back on the caffine, i stoped drinking any and all kinds of caffinated soda’s and coffee, and it did help with my nervious system.
  And for those who have not heard this and wonder about these ‘FAKE’ man made sugar’s such as splenda, and Diet drinks are NOT at all good for you thay are not healthier for you nor do thay help your ‘DIET’ but in fact drinking alot of diet drinks and consuming alot of these man made sugars can cause symptems identical to M.S. And I have to agree drinking pop, just like eating any kind of unhealthy food can cause you to gain weight. But I also feel that it depends on how else you take care of yourself and if your active. I think hey you can exercise and eat all the healthy food, but why not injoy life too? Treat yourself to some sugar there’s no harm in it!

• Garrett
  Jul 28, 2007 at 1:34 pm

  One of the coolest articles I have ever read. Thanks!

• repent
  Jul 29, 2007 at 11:09 am

  i know pop is bad for you but it is also addicting and i cant stay off of it and neither can most people it is the main problem of obesity in our country

• Catherine Cañonero
  Jul 30, 2007 at 4:16 pm

  Drinking soda is not bad for your health as long as it is not in excess. Quench not only your thirst but also your hunger by taking Rice and Shine.

• nakliyat
  Jul 31, 2007 at 2:39 pm

  Yes. The behavior and toxicity of chemicals is fully dependent on their concentration and its chemical enviroment

• evden eve nakliyat
  Aug 1, 2007 at 9:25 am

  thankss alot

• evden eve nakliyat
  Aug 1, 2007 at 9:26 am

  think I can count on one hand the number of soda’s I have drank and the last soda I had was like 20 years ago. Soda is just expensive sugar/caffeine water. I don’t drink coffee either.
  thanks

• evden eve nakliyat
  Aug 2, 2007 at 1:53 am

  It’s pretty much the same
  thanks

• Steve Arvid
  Aug 3, 2007 at 5:26 am

  Best site. Thanks
  (vacuum cleaner)

• Mark
  Aug 6, 2007 at 12:57 pm

  It’s hilarious how so many people think soda is so bad for you. It’s the same as the stupid diet crave; it’s misleading.

  I also love how some others come here and comment and say “ZOMG THANKS U SAVED MY LIFE LOL” or “LOL I HAVENT DRANK A SODA IN 30 YEARS IM COOL.”

  If you believe soda is bad, then don’t drink it. Stop trying to push shit on other people.

• The Dog
  Aug 12, 2007 at 5:00 pm

  As my grandmother used to say:

  “You’re a long time dead!”

  So who cares if coke is supposedly so bad for a person’s health?

  Enjoy the rush when you’re alive.
  Get your caffeine when you can.

  Health Freaks die too. They just have less fun waiting to die.

  “You’re a long time dead!”

• ntlpooh@aol.com
  Aug 16, 2007 at 8:48 am

  I think this is discusting.
  You are litterally drinking down your life.
  People should know about this, simply because it is hurting them very badly.
  Just think, little kids are growin on this everyday.
  People wonder why everyday, “Why is America the fattest country?
  Because of this.
  Parents, I am saddend by this because you have no idea what you are giving your kids.
  Its not a drink,or a refreshment.
  It is candy,drugs, and very bad for your love ones.
  Think about it.

• allicats@comcast.net
  Aug 16, 2007 at 8:54 am

  OMG!! this is nasty! but thanks!! im never drinking a coke again! and im writing a report on teen obesity so this should be great thanks!!!

• bob katt
  Aug 21, 2007 at 9:01 pm

  The cocaine that used to be in Coca Cola didn’t get you high - the cocaine content was miniscule. Like your knowledge.

  I don’t know about this dopamine rush you claim Coca Cola provides - but if it’s real, I can assure you it’s nothing like the effect you’d get from heroin. Otherwise all those smackheads would switch to the soft drink and save themselves all sorts of trouble, heartache, money worries and legal dangers.

  Yes, caffeine is a stimulant… but even 10 cans of Coca Cola wouldn’t provide anything like a cocaine rush. The soda would keep you up all night, sure. But cocaine users don’t do the drug just for sleepless nights and the frankly discomforting effect of a caffeine overdose.

  You’ve never used cocaine, or heroin. You haven’t seriously spoken to any users of these drugs. Coca cola doesn’t get you “high”. It makes you restless and gets you pissing lots. But that ain’t what drug users go for.

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  I think you forgot to mention type II diabetes, the risk of which is increased in those prone to the condition if they indulge in soft drinks. The incidence of type II (insulin resistance, adult-onset, usually >= age 40 yrs.) diabetes has increased to the point where it has been seen in young children and teenagers. I wouldn’t be surprised if all that starchy junk food, candy and soft drinks (and the accompanying lack of exercise and couch potato lifestyle) are connected to obesity, diabetes, fibromyalgia and numerous other health problems.

  I live in Indonesia and Coke here contains sugar (not high fructose corn syrup, not that it makes any difference as Coke is loaded with enough sugar to make you seriously ill in the future if you drink too much on a regular basis). The Diet Coke in Indonesia also contains cyclamate and saccharin (no aspartame) and tastes very good. Pepsi uses aspartame and my opinion of aspartame is that it just doesn’t have the sweetness of sugar like cyclamate does and aspartame gives me severe headaches and anxiety (even in caffeine-free diet drinks with aspartame).

  I used to drink about 750mL (same amount in slightly more than 2 cans) a day and after a few months my teeth began to turn black around the edges, but that cleared up when I quit drinking it.

  My heart would jump around on me and sometimes beat irregularly, so that was another factor in me giving up soft drinks, since I am very sensitive to even small amounts of caffeine. (approx. 100mg in 750mL vs. 150mg in one cup of drip coffee)

  I only drink bottled water now and have been doing so for years. When you get accustomed to drinking water, you won’t want to drink anything else. There’s nothing better than a tall glass of water. It’s the only thing that quenches my thirst.

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• Earl
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  Your comment on Dopemine levels is perposterous, many things have affect on dopemine levels, even the SUN. By the way I drink many cokes a day and I’m fine (healthy weight and general).

• Cheenoxxl
  Oct 29, 2007 at 10:54 pm

  My wife’s cousin was diagnosed with kidney stones a few months ago. The doctor said it was caused by her high consumption of Coke. She drinks nothing but Coke all day long. What do you Coca-cola experts have to say on this? Is it true? Or is the doctor wrong? Not to mention she weighs about a thousand pounds! Probably from her Coke binges! Reminds me of a Heroin addict!!

• Paul
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  Yes, drinking excessive amounts of caffeinated Coke (or any other caffeinated drink) could contribute to an increased risk of having kidney stones. Drinking alcohol to excess can do the same. This is because caffeine is a diuretic, meaning it makes you urinate and can make you urinate too much..to the point of becoming dehydrated. The phosphoric acid in colas can also cause calcium to come out of the bones and become deposited in the arteries or even in the kidneys (stones). The key here is moderation. There is nothing wrong with Coke or any other cola if you only drink 1 can a day and drink plenty of water, eat your fruits and vegetables and exercise.

  Tell her to switch to caffeine-free Diet Coke. No sugar, no caffeine…but it still has phosphoric acid. I have a feeling she just won’t give it up completely, so that’s why I’d say caffeine-free Diet Coke. Then you can wean her off that and over to water. She should drink at least half a gallon of water (2 liters) a day to prevent more stones.

  There’s at least 100 calories in a can of cola and if you drink, say, 10 cans a day, that’s half your required caloric intake for the day. (You only need 2000 calories a day) People who drink lots of cola also have other bad dietary habits and probably eat donuts or other sweet, fatty foods.

  Kidney stones are probably the least of her worries if she is obese. Diabetes, hypertension, atherosclerosis, stroke, heart disease and cancer are just a step away if she doesn’t make some serious lifestyle changes.

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  A co-worker forwarded a link to your web site to me about the effects upon the body of drinking a 12 ounce serving of Coca-Cola.

  “The main problem is sugar. It’s an evil that the processed food industry and sugar growers don’t want people to know about. Even dietitians, financially supported by sugar growers and sugary product manufacturers, are loathe to tell us the truth.”

  It seems that they are not the only ones loathe to tell the truth. There are factual and mathematical errors in the article that point towards deliberate falsification.

  To fact-check the article I went to the ‘fridge and compared the bottle of Coke to the bottle of Juicy Juice, which does not list sugar as an added ingredient.

  An 8 ounce serving of Coke has 27 grams of sugar.

  An 8 ounce serving of Juicy Juice has 28 grams of sugar.

  It also is worth noting that Juicy Juice doesn’t have any phosphoric acid in it, to prevent the vomiting that the article alleges will occur as a result of consuming the “10 teaspoons” of sugar in a can of Coke.

  I did a quick calculation. 28 grams of sugar per 8 ounce serving yields 42 grams in a 12-ounce can of coke. Converting grams to teaspoons, a can of Coke has 8.8 grams of sugar, not the ten the web page alleges. A 16-ounce bottle of Coke would have just over 11 teaspoons. This clearly isn’t a rounding error; it looks rather like a deliberate distortion of facts.

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• Charlie
  Dec 4, 2007 at 10:16 pm

  Apologies for the units error in my last paragraph. it should have read:

  28 grams of sugar per 8 ounce serving yields 42 grams in a 12-ounce can of coke. Converting grams to teaspoons, a can of Coke has 8.8 *teaspoons* of sugar, not the ten the web page alleges.

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  I wonder about the acid itself in Coke. I’ve known people to turn down a Coke, because it’s too much on their stomachs.

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  Looks good, but there are two things I would point out. Your body is radically altered by environment and food/drug intake all the time. The degree to which this is experienced as pleasant or not depends greatly on the person, dosage, frequency of use, etc.

  Also, while Heroin does indeed lead to an increase of dopamine in the nucleas accumbens, to equate the action of sugar and any opiod is not accurate. Heroin is an antagonist at the mu-opiod receptor, causing a number of biological changes. Sugar does not bind to any opiod receptor…neurochemistry is not that simple, and dopamine has lots of effects other than getting you high (in the pre-frontal cortex, certain amounts help the focusing of attention).

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  Hey Charlie. This article was posted by another writer over a year ago. I cannot comment on the previous writer’s sources and how/what was detracted from those sources. I do, however, know that Mr. Meredith was a fantastic blogger who cared very much about the info that he shared with his readers.

  As for the matter at hand, thanks so much for your input - it’s evident you spent a lot of time dissecting this and we appreciate your effort. I don’t think sugar is the only factor here, though. Clearly there is a boatload of evidence above and beyond sugar content that suggests soda is not a “health drink”.

  Personally, 2008 will be the year that I cut down drastically (or hopefully eliminate) all soda (particularly dark sodas) from my diet. This article has convinced me more than ever why I need to do so. But to each his (or her) own. :)

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  Have just read effects of drinking coke, my sons been drinking it for ages, he suffers mood swings and depressions, from what I gather coke may be responsible, is it true too much coke causes bi polar, and is there any way he can get rid of all these effects on a permanent basis, he has been like this for 2 to 3 years now, he has been a coke drinker for ages, he says it makes him feel better he is having a job to kick this habit, and it is getting expensive, have you any ideas please, and can you tell me more about the bi polar thing, is it reversable? I am at my wits end, why dont coke bottles carry warnings, I think they should, if they did maybe we would have been more cautiouse in the first place.

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  Jan 12, 2008 at 5:40 pm

  Wow! This is a hot article! Did you know that Dr. Mercola linked to you (or linked to a site that quotes your article)?

  As far as poisions in quality, I have to disagree with some of the discussion. What’s good for you and what’s bad for you? It’s easy–things in their natural state are good, but things processed are bad (they are chemicals, not food.) If rarely seen anything to contradict this idea. The human body can handle an amazing amount and then boom, what day this perfectly health person ends up with cancer or Lyme disease or a baby that doesn’t make it. The body couldn’t handle any more. And it takes a lot of work to tip the scale back. I’ve been working 4.5 years to tip my scale back and I don’t touch cokes with a 10 foot pole. But it works!

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  Bottom line is this - if it was manufactured in a factory or a lab, it probably isn’t good for your body. Yes, you CAN drink it, but should you? Probably not. As was mentioned earlier (before the thread got ridiculously out of hand), nature provides all of the proper nutrition the human body needs. I don’t know about most of you, but I’d rather not take my chances by pouring some artificially manuactured product into it.

  You people who brag about being able to drink so many cans a day with no consequence: Bottom line is you’d rather have your moment of pleasure than do what is right. This is the type of gluttony that is leading our country right into an epidemic. Everyone thinks they can have whatever they want, whenever they want it. A donut for lunch, no problem. A can of Coke for a snack, great. Keep it up, it will catch up with you.

  We’ve become so stupid that we don’t even realize we’re not in control of our own appetities anymore. The addicting products these companies add to their products, combined with viral Marketing tactics have lead to a nation of zombies who don’t even see that they’re being sold right into the grave. Wake up people - these companies are here to make money off of your gluttony - they cold care less about how overconsumption of their product affects your health.

  You may still be ticking after all of these years, but it will catch up to you. When your final years on the earth are plagued with obesity, osteoporosis, Type II Diabetes and other health issues, I hope you REALLY enjoyed the Coke. We’ll revisit the issue then, and see what your opinion is.

• Flor
  Jan 16, 2008 at 9:21 am

  I don’t smoke, I don’t drink, I don’t get high… give me a break and at least let me have a coke

• Marc
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  Have all you want… it’s your health.

  There’s nothing wrong with a little indulgence here and there. That being said, I was directing my comments towards the “I can drink Coke ’til the cows come home,” people. To them I say, time will tell. One day the cows will come home.

• Michele
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  I stopped drinking regular sodas about 2 years ago…and stopped caffeine in October…thank GOD!!

• Robbie
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  Marc, I thought this website was for people who were all in the same boat, so that people with similar experiences could all communicate, and not to be ridiculed by comments by people who obviously havent been there, we are talking about very young teenagers, your comment stops other people coming forward to share their experiences for fear of being ridiculed by people like you. You talk about gluttony, you are talking about a young teenager, my son isnt a glutton thank you very much, nor do any of us brag, as you put it, in any case you do not even know or understand what kind of personal circumstances other people go through, so your poor comments are really rather rash. This is a website for people to share there experiences, and not to get run down by people like you, I hope other people are not put off by your comments.

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  i’ve seen coke take the paint off cars, and dissolve teeth within days (science experiment, not actually soaking my own teeth!) … i personally use coke to clean my jewelery, it takes off all the tarnish in minutes! i’ve also heard it takes the liver over 16 months to detox from all the chemicals in diet soda (that’s ONE diet soda) … most people will not live long enough to process out all the diet soda they’ve ever consumed … plus, have you ever known anyone to get skinnier from drinking diet soda!? if we only consume that which we can reasonably pronounce, we’d all be a lot better off!! :)

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  i’ve seen coke take the paint off cars, and dissolve teeth within days (science experiment, not actually soaking my own teeth!) … i personally use coke to clean my jewelery, it takes off all the tarnish in minutes! i’ve also heard it takes the liver over 16 months to detox from all the chemicals in diet soda (that’s ONE diet soda) … most people will not live long enough to process out all the diet soda they’ve ever consumed … plus, have you ever known anyone to get skinnier from drinking diet soda!? if we only consume that which we can reasonably pronounce (the ingredients, not just the end product!), we’d all be a lot better off!! :)

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