http://healthbolt.net/2006/12/08/what-happens-to-your-body-if-you-drink-a-coke-right-now

Ignoring the drug spin on it :P

Kinda cool.

is this related only to coke or all soft drinks?

f*** coke, especially the normal stuff.

Only coke I'll usually drink is treating myself to a bottle of Coke Zero after a game of hockey to chillax with back at home.

Otherwise the diet homebrand cola stuff also doesn't taste like pure sugary aids and mixes surprisingly well (alot better than normal coke) with JD/JB.

is this related only to coke or all soft drinks?

All.

Only people who love extremely unhealthy diets could possibly love the normal coke, once you cut virtually all processed sugars out of your diet (which you should) and then drink some coke you realise how absolutely BS it tastes.

last edited by Loki at 14:25:57 14/Dec/06

nice find good read - few interesting articles on the site as well

what happens when you quit smoking

Only people who love extremely unhealthy diets could possibly love the normal coke, once you cut virtually all processed sugars out of your diet (which you should) and then drink some coke you realise how absolutely BS it tastes.

s***, even switching from coke to a non-sugar cola makes coke taste WAY too sweet. I can only have it super rarely now.

I switched to coke zero since it came out. I tried normal coke again and i just couldnt drink it, it just "felt" and tasted so foul.

I switched to Coke Zero as well when it came out, it's just annoying that premixed cans of Burbon & Coke still don't come in Coke Zero form (at least not that I've seen).

i too switched to coke zero once it came out. can't fkn stand diet coke though.

is this related only to coke or all soft drinks?

Read the article - applies to most soft drinks.

Careful kiddies, Coke Zero has chemicals that are nuerotoxic in it!

can't be any worse than the s*** they take at raves.

pfft, i have lots of cock all the time, and im perfectly fine. mmm cock.

Only coke I'll usually drink is treating myself to a bottle of Coke Zero after a game of hockey to chillax with back at home.

Who do you play for?

O.o

Southern Stars.

Though we split into two teams this season.
I'm playing for Bluestars, same team as Rubba...

all you dirty sugar free zealots. get a bag of caster sugar up ya.

coke zero is just the ego conscious man's diet coke, which is just the fat man's coke.

once you cut virtually all processed sugars out of your diet

Can someone please explain to me why 'processed' sugars (apparently 'processed' sugar is white refined sugar) is worse for you than brown or raw sugar (which I assume people don't believe is 'processed').

Apparently its because when the sugar is processed all the minerals and vitamins naturally occuring in sugar are removed. So, when the sugar is used by the body it has to suck vitamins and minerals from other parts of the body depleting, overall, your body of the s*** it needs. To burn off all the energy sugar provides before it gets turned into fat you need to exercise, but because your body has used up alot of vitamins and stuff already you feel tired or lethargic. And thus begins the slippery slope towards being a fat c***. Unless, like trog, you have crazy fast metabolism, then you can eat whatever the f*** you want.

^ yeah thats bulls***

Coke is it!

TAG! now your it!

I thought you meant TAB

TAB Cola, now that was a good drink!

Pepsi Max FTW!

i used to think that, now zero is better. get with it.

^ yeah thats bulls***

what exaclty is bulls***?

Everything he said.

Has anyone got a real answer?

dunno zero doesnt taste that good ... its that artificial sweetner that tastes weird

raw sugar requires effort from the body to break it down into the energy sugars required by the body.

white or refined sugar is already broken down, which means there is no effort from the body required and unless used straight away, gets turned into fat.

the same way brown / multigrain bread is better for you than white, is the brekadown factor.

low GI vs high GI works in the same way, low GI means that it has latent energy that requires effort to be broken down and thus is absorbed over a long period of time giving you sustained energy

whereas high GI needs no effort, is absorbed straight away, gives you a quick hit and anything left over is stored as fat

f*** drinking any kind of coke anyway

ill stick with super healthy redbulls and v's

spook i just got a 8 pack of a drink called mother, some new energy drink with acai, guarana, ginseng and caffeine all for filling out an ITM survey!

I've moved over to the old school Soda stream - fortunately it tastes alot better these day then back in the 80s when it was all the rage.

raw sugar requires effort from the body to break it down into the energy sugars required by the body.

white or refined sugar is already broken down

Post a link to something that says that. All I have managed to google says that white sugar is the same as raw sugar except the impurities have been removed. I highly doubt that the body has a hard time breaking down the tiny amount of impurities contained in raw sugar.

coke zero ftw

inform us nf

Post a link to something that says that. All I have managed to google says that white sugar is the same as raw sugar except the impurities have been removed

I assume your googling skills suck balls... what folows is all I could be bothered linking but if you type "processed sugar bad" into google you get a bunch of links. They mostly just say what i mentioned earlier.

Link

...Refined sugar contains no fiber, no minerals, no proteins, no fats, no enzymes, only empty calories. What happens when you eat a refined carbohydrate like sugar? Your body must borrow vital nutrients from healthy cells to metabolize the incomplete food. Calcium, sodium, potassium and magnesium are taken from various parts of the body to make use of the sugar. Many times, so much calcium is used to neutralize the effects of sugar that the bones become osteoporotic due to the withdrawn calcium.

Link2

Not all sugars are unhealthy; certain sugars have minimal or no negative impact, and remarkable health benefits. But refined white sugar, the table sugar that most people use every day, is harmful, even in small amounts.

You're so learned stagrrr.

Post a link to something that says that. All I have managed to google says that white sugar is the same as raw sugar except the impurities have been removed. I highly doubt that the body has a hard time breaking down the tiny amount of impurities contained in raw sugar.

Its hard to tell if yo are trolling or actually give a s*** these days but im gonna respond anyway and say that often youd be surprised how much energy it tkaes to do random s***.

Apparently eating icecubes burns quite a large number of calories just melting them and its not like it requires effort to sit an icecube in your mouth...

raw sugar is no healthier than processed (white) sugar, its a myth

pure sucrose is white (like most pure crystals) the reason raw sugar isn't white is because of impurities (just like ruby's are red because of impurities in the crystal). minerals are not leached from other cells to metabolise the sugar, i have no idea where that stupid idea came from. minerals and vitamins are typically co-factors or used in enzyme complexes (in the same way that iron is used in haemoglobin).

not sure exactly how sucrose absorbtion works, but it may work with a active or facilitated transport system in the cells of the intestines, if its active or facilited it may remove small amounts of calcium or sodium from the cells to do so, but that is typically reabsorbed, i think its pretty unlikely though that this would be significant in teh scheme of things.

anyway, case in point, raw sugar is no better than processed sugar. anyway, i'm off to get drunk, out.

I win because nf agrees with me.

It's a moderation thing.

Things that contain added processed sugar tend to have alot of it (like coke!).

Alot of foods out there you're better off eating with naturally occuring sugar incorporated into your diet.

That's all.

I have NFI if there is a difference between brown and white sugar as far as being 'better for you' is concerned, nF's posts seem reasonable enough.

fpot basically the jist is you shouldn't have to add any type of sugar to make enhance the taste of something.. as loki said naturally occuring sugars are the ones that process alot better then the ones that are man made.. as well as the things that have naturally occuring sugars generally being 10x better for you with other vitamins and minerals and whatever the f*** else you need.

as well as the things that have naturally occuring sugars generally being 10x better for you with other vitamins and minerals and whatever the f*** else you need.

^ what he said too.

I find it funny that alot of you people are preeching the evils of sugar, when you have absolutely no problem with smoking, drinking and taking drugs.

I find it funny that alot of you people are preeching the evils of sugar, when you have absolutely no problem with smoking, drinking and taking drugs.

That's because those activities are far more enjoyable..

I find it funny that alot of you people are preeching the evils of sugar, when you have absolutely no problem with smoking, drinking and taking drugs.

Everything can kill you....water can ffs! Tell ya what though, I'd much rather live life than eat only good things. My gf's ex-roomate was a health nut(nothing wrong with that), rarely stayed up late, ate only perfectly good food at all times and sat on the computer all day (gym every 1-2 days also). Well thats great for him, but i don't see any kind of fun in that!

but i don't see any kind of fun in that!

i dont see any fun in dancing mindlessly to gabba in phatties

i leave my golf clubs in coke to strip the rust off them.

Works a treat.

Can someone please explain to me why 'processed' sugars (apparently 'processed' sugar is white refined sugar) is worse for you than brown or raw sugar (which I assume people don't believe is 'processed').

As it has been stated above, there is no differance in processed sugar and brown sugar (which is also processed). You could arguee that since the brown suger is less pure, it takes more of it to attain equal levels of Sucrose of white sugar. So if you have the same amount by weight, your having less sugar. Which in our lifestyles is probably a good thing.

The article was comparing the sugar Sucrose in coke to that of Fructose in fruit.

It babbled about the sudden surge of sugar absorbed in the system causes a surge of insulin to be produced. Apparently the high levels of insulin inhibits Serotonin production. A continous (several weeks) intake of high sugar levels could help cause depression. Apparently when seratonin producing cells are inhibited for a time they produce less and less serotonin. Serotonin is linked to mood.

Now, apparently this is cause by fairly consistant high levels of insulin in the body.

The article whinges that fructose is better because it has more chemical bonds to break down, thus slowing the bodies intake of it. Well, the only differance between Sucrose and Fructose is that Sucrose has 2 sugar monomers (units) in it, bound together. This gets broken down into 2 units of glucose, then absorbed.
O, fructose also has 2 more carbon atoms bonded to it.
So really that argument is silly.
However, Fructose is absorbed by the body using a differnt transporter then glucose. Presumably we have less of these transporters then those for Glucose, this in turn lowers the GI of fructose to that of Glucose, which in turn, reduces the amount of insulin in the blood stream.
This apparently doesn't alter the serotonin levels as much and keeps for a more balanced body and mind.

So basically the article is saying that fruit is better for you then Coke...

well derr..

That's my take on it anyway.