The Truth about Carbonated Drinks ~ Cola banned from Brazil

[CHRISTINA]

http://www.niburu.nl/index.php?articleID=23657

A study by a Brazilian Professor from Matto Grosso Federal University has revealed the shocking truth about the effects of having a can of a carbonated drink. Learn what happens inside your body in the sixty minutes after you glug down your refreshing sizzling drink…and think carefully!

After just ten minutes, 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your body, 100% of the daily recommended dose. You do not immediately vomit from the overwhelming sweetness because the Phosphoric acid in the drink cuts the taste.

After twenty minutes, the level of sugar in your blood erupts, forcing a rush of insulin. The liver responds by turning all the sugar it receives into fat.

After forty minutes, the caffeine absorption is complete. Your pupils dilate, blood pressure rises, the liver responds by pumping more sugar into your bloodstream. Adenosine receptors in the brain are now blocked, preventing drowsiness and giving you an energy rush.

After 45, the body increases dopamine production stimulating the pleasure centers. This same process takes place with the consumption of heroin, for example.

50 minutes. The phosphoric acid binds calcium, magnesium and zinc in the intestine, increasing the metabolism. High doses of sugar and artificial sweeteners also increase Calcium excretion in the urine, or in other words, you are urinating your bones away, one of the causes of Osteoporosis.

60 minutes: One hour after consuming. The caffeine's diuretic properties come into play. You urinate. Now it is guaranteed that will be putting out of your system calcium, magnesium and zinc, which your bones need. As time goes on, you'll experience a sugar crash. You'll be cranky. You will already have excreted everything that was in the drink, but also essential properties which your body needs.

Then you’ll reach for another one.

No wonder President Vargas banned Cola from Brazil!

Study by Prof. Dr. Carlos Alexandre Fett: “Quando você acaba de beber um refrigerante” (When you have just

consumed a carbonated drink)

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[Simmy]

I was curious to confirm this article, so after a bit of research, I couldn't find anything that says that coca-cola was banned in Brazil. Actually president Vargas, who was said to be the one that banned it, was the one that signed the authorization for Coca-Cola's factories being established in Brazil.
Anyway...any drink with this amount of sugar and chemicals can only be bad for you.

[Simmy]

Apparently it was banned in Brazil when Getulio Vargas was the president (1930-1945 and 1051-1954, when he committed suicide). I didn't know that.
It is definitely not banned now!! They drink a lot of it, specially the diet ones!
I have to confess that I do like my coca-cola and I usually had 1 glass a day. Well, I've already promised my son I would not buy them any more because he started to get a taste for it. I managed to "save" him from it for 12 years, but he decided that he also wanted to drink a bit, like me. It was then I've decided to stop drinking!

[CHRISTINA]

I grew up with apple and orange juice :-) When I took a sip from a bottle of Fanta Orange that was offered to me, not at home, but some place else, because there was nothing else, it caused me a headache and made me feel I wanted to puke. This happened when I was about six or seven years old, since then I've never been tempted to have another try.....

[Vaddix]

me too Simone I completely stopped, and i rarely ever get headaches anymore. Somebody from work bought me a monster energy drink the other day out of kindness. So out of kindness i drank it. I was bloated, it brought on an immediate head ache, and i had to keep choking back my gag reflex for almost an hour afterward.
The Sad truth in America is that people drink these everyday, some cases sodas are the only thing they will drink.