Timeline: What Happens After Drinking a Coca-Cola Soda?

[Ronin Truth]

I've heard that hfcs is coming to a mexicoke near you. I agree - tasty.

Only in the local Mexico version. The US imports are keeping the cane sugar. YAY!

 

[Ronin Truth]

It is the best. Wish it wasn't so expensive. Over a dollar a bottle in these parts.

I get mine at Sam's by the case, somewhat cheaper (less than a buck each).

 

[brushfire]

Only in the local Mexico version. The US imports are keeping the cane sugar. YAY!

Nice - there's a gas station that sells the MX version. Its on the way to the range and I usually pick up a couple of bottles. Its so expensive though - I've seen them at costco and passed on the opportunity to purchase packs of them. Not to mention, I was a coke a day drinker for some time. Coke really was a hard habit to break.

For my caffeine needs, I pretty much stick with the "fine Columbian", Onan Ganjang, and Yirga Cheffe now days. I have more control over what I'm consuming, and the quality of the product. Plus, its an opportunity to offer some modest market retribution, in order to compensate for the so called "spreading of democracy". Especially in the case of Mokha Harasi... Cheers.

 

[Ronin Truth]

Nice - there's a gas station that sells the MX version. Its on the way to the range and I usually pick up a couple of bottles. Its so expensive though - I've seen them at costco and passed on the opportunity to purchase packs of them. Not to mention, I was a coke a day drinker for some time. Coke really was a hard habit to break.

For my caffeine needs, I pretty much stick with the "fine Columbian", Onan Ganjang, and Yirga Cheffe now days. I have more control over what I'm consuming, and the quality of the product. Plus, its an opportunity to offer some modest market retribution, in order to compensate for the so called "spreading of democracy". Especially in the case of Mokha Harasi... Cheers.

I've been a coke-aholic junkie for about 50 years now. I figure that with the quantity of preservatives I've consumed, my corpse will never decay.

 

[amy31416]

Pizza in NYC tastes different than pizza anywhere else. I have to figure its the water.

Supposedly it's both the water and the decades-old strains of yeast that some of the best places use. Real pizza freaks pay hundreds for small quantities of the yeast.

 

[Zippyjuan]

One of the most prominent ingredients in soda is something called orthophosphoric acid—a compound that must be transported with specially designed cisterns due to its high acidity. The reservoirs are designed to withstand the effects of “highly corrosive materials”, and with each swig of Coke, you are putting this stuff in your body.

The acid in a soda is a weaker acid than your stomach acid. Add a weak acid to a stronger acid and it dilutes the stronger one. There used to be a myth that the acid in Coke would eat a hole in your stomach. False. Vinegar is about the same acidity as sodas.

 

[angelatc]

The acid in a soda is a weaker acid than your stomach acid. Add a weak acid to a stronger acid and it dilutes the stronger one. There used to be a myth that the acid in Coke would eat a hole in your stomach. False. Vinegar is about the same acidity as sodas.

Commonly known as phosphoric acid. I guess the author used a bigger word to make it lots more crazy scarier.

"Specially designed containers" = plastic?

...with each bite of even the best organic avocados, dates, guava, lychee, passion fruit, pomegranates, artichokes, lima beans, peas, potatoes, beef, sardines, tuna or turkey, you are putting this stuff in your body.

 

[Zippyjuan]

Commonly known as phosphoric acid. I guess the author used a bigger word to make it lots more crazy scarier.

"Specially designed containers" = plastic?

...with each bite of even the best organic avocados, dates, guava, lychee, passion fruit, pomegranates, artichokes, lima beans, peas, potatoes, beef, sardines, tuna or turkey, you are putting this stuff in your body.

Gotta watch out for that equally dangerous "citirc acid" in colas.

Other harmful ingredients include citric acid, sodium benzoate, and more.

Occurs naturally in citrus fruits (hence the "citric" name). If sodas are bad because of that, please avoid fruits.

Sodium benzoate naturally occurs too in things like cranberries.

Sounds like Natural News or Alex Jones piece. High on fear, low on facts. Consuming such articles can be bad for your mental (intelectual) health.

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/sep/08/news/la-heb-skinnygirl-margarita-sodium-benzoate-20110908

Consumed under normal conditions it poses no great health dangers, says Don Schaffner, professor of food science at Rutgers University in New Jersey. "Sodium benzoate is still actively being studied, but in a comprehensive review [researchers] concluded that at levels being used in foods it doesn't pose a risk."

The Food and Drug Administration limits sodium benzoate to concentrations of 0.1% by weight, and Worobo says most foods have concentrations far lower--more like 0.025% to 0.05%.

But Schaffner says that doesn't mean it's OK to take a bath in the stuff, although he adds, "It's my understanding that it's not fat soluble," he added, "so it won't concentrate in the body."

When sodium benzoate combines with ascorbic acid (vitamin C) benzene can form, which is a known carcinogen. Factors such as heat and time can affect its development. Unless you're drinking gallons of soda and Skinnygirl Margaritas every day, Schaffner says, your risk of reaching dangerous levels is pretty low. And if you live in an urban area you're probably sucking up benzene via smog anyway.

 

[Zippyjuan]

And it is "like heroin".

and increased dopamine production (think heroin).

Just like chocolate or exercising or having sex or doing something which makes you happy. So quit being happy- darn it!

 

[angelatc]

And it is "like heroin".


Just like chocolate or exercising or having sex or doing something which makes you happy. So quit being happy- darn it!

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/27/science/27angier.html?_r=0

The mouse is physically capable of eating. It still likes the taste of food. Put a kibble in its mouth, and it will chew and swallow, all the while wriggling its nose in apparent rodent satisfaction.

Yet left on its own, the mouse will not rouse itself for dinner. The mere thought of walking across the cage and lifting food pellets from the bowl fills it with overwhelming apathy. What is the point, really, of all this ingesting and excreting? Why bother? Days pass, the mouse doesn’t eat, it hardly moves, and within a couple of weeks, it has starved itself to death.


Behind the rodent’s fatal case of ennui is a severe deficit of dopamine, one of the essential signaling molecules in the brain.

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[Romulus]

Giving up soda was a great victory in my life. Some people climb mountains. I give up soda.