Have you ever wondered what happens to your body when you drink a coke? It’s not a pretty sight as it causes all sorts of havoc within your body.

You see, sugar has a drug like effect. It immediately causes your insulin level to spike, but then within a short period of time it will crash screwing up your metabolism.

I came across this post on the www.fat-burners.org website and thought it was interesting all of the chemical reactions that occur within your body after drinking a coke. These include:

In the first 10 minutes: 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system (100% of your 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 it 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 liver 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 further boost in metabolism. This is compounded by high doses of sugar and artificial sweeteners also increasing the urinary extretion 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.

>60 minutes This will be followed by a caffeine crash in the next few hours. (As little as two if you are a smoker). And one more, thing too, since coke has a lot of acid, it can cause tooth decay in the long run.

Do you really still want to have that Coke today (or other high sugar item)?