<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/57d6b309-0096-4fee-8487-5db96427d893/878FDF62-0BFB-46A9-843B-67C24D864D1D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.blisstree.com/healthbolt/what-happens-to-your-body-if-you-drink-a-coke-right-now/" href="http://www.blisstree.com/healthbolt/what-happens-to-your-body-if-you-drink-a-coke-right-now/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.blisstree.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.blisstree.com/healthbolt/what-happens-to-your-body-if-you-drink-a-coke-right-now/"><P><SPAN class="time">December 8, 2006</SPAN> by <A title="Posts by Liz Lewis" href="http://www.blisstree.com/healthbolt/author/lizlewis/">Liz Lewis</A>   <BR /> Filed under <A rel="category tag" title="View all posts in Drink" href="http://www.blisstree.com/healthbolt/topic/drink/">Drink</A>, <A rel="category tag" title="View all posts in Prevention" href="http://www.blisstree.com/healthbolt/topic/prevention/">Prevention</A>, <A rel="category tag" title="View all posts in Your Body" href="http://www.blisstree.com/healthbolt/topic/your-body/">Your Body</A></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.blisstree.com/healthbolt/what-happens-to-your-body-if-you-drink-a-coke-right-now/"><P><IMG src="http://healthbolt.net/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/coke.jpg" id="image678" alt="Coke" />*</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.blisstree.com/healthbolt/what-happens-to-your-body-if-you-drink-a-coke-right-now/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><STRONG>In The First 10 minutes:</STRONG> 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.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.blisstree.com/healthbolt/what-happens-to-your-body-if-you-drink-a-coke-right-now/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><STRONG>20 minutes:</STRONG> Your <A href="#" class="kLink" target="undefined" id="KonaLink0"><FONT color="#de6931"><SPAN class="kLink">blood </SPAN><SPAN class="kLink">sugar</SPAN></FONT></A> spikes, causing an insulin burst. Your liver responds to this by turning any sugar it can get its hands on into fat. (There’s <EM>plenty </EM>of that at this particular moment)</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.blisstree.com/healthbolt/what-happens-to-your-body-if-you-drink-a-coke-right-now/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><STRONG>40 minutes:</STRONG> Caffeine absorption is complete. Your pupils dilate, your blood pressure rises, as a response your <A href="#" class="kLink" target="undefined" id="KonaLink1"><FONT color="#de6931"><SPAN class="kLink">livers</SPAN></FONT></A> dumps <EM>more sugar</EM> into your bloodstream. The adenosine receptors in your brain are now blocked preventing drowsiness.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.blisstree.com/healthbolt/what-happens-to-your-body-if-you-drink-a-coke-right-now/"><STRONG>45 minutes:</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.blisstree.com/healthbolt/what-happens-to-your-body-if-you-drink-a-coke-right-now/"><STRONG>&gt;60 minutes:</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.blisstree.com/healthbolt/what-happens-to-your-body-if-you-drink-a-coke-right-now/"><STRONG>&gt;60 Minutes:</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.blisstree.com/healthbolt/what-happens-to-your-body-if-you-drink-a-coke-right-now/"><P>This will all be followed by a caffeine crash in the next few hours. (As little as two if you’re a smoker.) But, hey, have another Coke, it’ll make you feel better.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/878FDF62-0BFB-46A9-843B-67C24D864D1D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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