People are often surprised when they find out that my 6 and 4 year olds have never had soda. None. Why? They just don't need it. They don't need the empty calories. They don't need the loads of sugar and caffiene. And they don't need all the artificial junk that's in there. Do you know what happens to your body when you drink a soda?
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.
20 minutes: Your blood sugar spikes, causing an insulin burst. Your liver responds to this by turning any sugar it can get its 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 livers 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 a further boost in metabolism. This is compounded by high doses of sugar and artificial sweeteners also increasing the urinary excretion 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 theability to hydrate your system or build strong bones and teeth.
My 6 1/2 year old often asks why she can't have it because "all her friends do." I decided to SHOW her. So we did a little experiment. We took a glass of cola and an egg, placed the egg in the cola and waited an hour.
This is what soda does to your teeth! And that's in only an hour!
So...If I won't let my kids do this to themselves, why do I do it to myself? Why is my health less of a priority than theirs? So today I am kicking the soda habit. Now, I can't say I'm never going to have soda, but I'm not stocking it in my fridge anymore and it's not going to be an everyday thing. So Sayonara soda! I'll miss you!
effects of soda info came from here
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