Natural Society – Elizabeth Renter: Timeline: What Happens After Drinking a Coca-Cola Soda?

soda coca cola 263x164 Timeline: What Happens After Drinking a Coca Cola Soda?By Elizabeth Renter, Natural Society, http://naturalsociety.com/effects-daily-coca-cola-soft-drink/

Even if you like soft drinks, you can tell by the taste that they are a potion of chemicals and man-made toxins. They don’t taste like anything natural, besides maybe sugar. And unfortunately, diet soda is no sound alternative. So what really happens after you drink a Coca-Cola or a similar soft drink?

Here is what could happen in your body after you drink a can of soda. In the first 10 minutes, it stops you from gagging on the 10 teaspoons of sugar by buffering the sweet stuff with phosphoric acid. Twenty minutes after consumption, your blood sugar levels jump alarmingly.

But the effects of your soda don’t stop there—with changes like increased blood pressure, blocked adenosine receptors (leading to that caffeine high), and increased dopamine production (think heroin). Further, calcium, zinc, and magnesium are depleted from the body.

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.

Read: Is Diet Soda Bad for You?

As our own Christina Sarich reports, this isn’t the only scary ingredient in a can of soda. Coloring E150D, for example, is made of processed sugar and ammonium sulfate—a chemical also found in Monsanto’s best-selling herbicide RoundUp and known to increase the symptoms of asthma. Another ingredient E950, also known as Acesulfame Potassium, “aggravates the heart, vascular system, and nervous system.” Other harmful ingredients include citric acid, sodium benzoate, and more.

Lest you think diet soda is any better, diet sodas contain aspartame, a genetically modified component with numerous health risks. Diet soda has been linked to increased risk of kidney problems, altered metabolism leading to heart attack and stroke, obesity, cell damage, and even depression.

Soft drink makers don’t have your health in mind when they create their beverages—even when they create those with “all the taste and none of the calories.” Their primary concern is making money. As a consumer, it’s your job to make health decisions and abandon soda for the benefits of healing beverages like natural vegetable and fruit juices, teas, and filtered water.

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  1. A Killer In Your Fridge ~ Sweet Poison… A MUST READ

    September 2, 2013

    tags: aspartame, diabetes, dizziness, fibromyalgia, headaches,
    lupus, migraines, ms, muscle spasms, nutra-sweet

    In October of 2001, my sister started getting very sick She had
    stomach
    spasms and she was having a hard time getting around. Walking was a
    major chore. It took everything she had just to get out of bed; she
    was in so much pain.

    By March 2002, she had undergone several tissue and muscle biopsies
    and was on 24 various prescription medications. The doctors could not
    determine what was wrong with her. She was in so much pain, and so
    sick she just knew she was dying.

    She put her house, bank accounts, life insurance, etc., in her
    oldest daughter’s name, and made sure that her younger children were
    to be taken care of.

    She also wanted her last hooray, so she planned a trip to Florida
    (basically in a wheelchair) for March 22nd.

    On March 19, I called her to ask how her most recent tests went,
    and she said they didn’t find anything on the test, but they believe
    she had MS.

    I recalled an article a friend of mine e-mailed to me and I asked
    my sister if she drank diet soda? She told me that she did.
    As a matter of fact, she was getting ready to crack one open that
    moment.

    I told her not to open it, and to stop drinking the diet soda! I
    e-mailed her an article my friend, a lawyer, had sent. My sister
    called me within 32 hours after our phone conversation and told me
    she had stopped drinking the diet soda
    AND she could walk! The muscle spasms went away. She said she
    didn’t feel 100% but, she sure felt a lot better.

    She told me she was going to her doctor with this article and would
    call me when she got home.

    Well, she called me, and said her doctor was amazed! He is going to
    call all of his MS patients to find out if they consumed artificial
    sweeteners of any kind. In a nutshell, she was being poisoned by the
    Aspartame in the diet soda..and literally dying a slow and miserable
    death.

    When she got to Florida March 22, all she had to take was one pill,
    and that was a pill for the Aspartame poisoning! She is well on her
    way to a complete recovery. And she is walking! No wheelchair!
    This article saved her
    life. If it says ‘SUGAR FREE’ on the label; DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT
    IT!
    I have spent several days lecturing at the WORLD ENVIRONMENTAL
    CONFERENCE on ‘ASPARTAME,marketed as ‘Nutra Sweet,’ ‘Equal,’ and
    ‘Spoonful. ‘In the keynote address by the EPA, it was announced that
    in the United States in 2001 there is an epidemic
    of multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus. It was difficult to
    determine exactly what toxin was causing this to be rampant.
    I stood up and said that I was thereto lecture on exactly that
    subject.

    I will explain why Aspartame is so dangerous: When the temperature
    of this sweetener exceeds 86 degrees F, the wood alcohol in
    ASPARTAME converts to formaldehyde and then to formic acid, which in
    turn causes metabolic acidosis.
    Formic acid is the poison found in the sting of fire ants. The
    methanol toxicity mimics, among other conditions, multiple sclerosis
    and systemic lupus.

    Many people were being diagnosed in error. Although multiple
    sclerosis is not a death sentence, Methanol toxicity is!

    Systemic lupus has become almost as rampant as multiple sclerosis,
    especially with Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi drinkers. The victim usually
    does not know that the Aspartame is the culprit. He or she continues
    it’s use; irritating the lupus to such a degree that it may become a
    life-threatening condition. We have seen
    patients with systemic lupus become asymptotic, once taken off diet
    sodas.

    In cases of those diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, most of the
    symptoms disappear. We’ve seen many cases where vision loss returned
    and hearing loss improved markedly.

    This also applies to cases of tinnitus and fibromyalgia. During a
    lecture, I said, ‘If you are using ASPARTAME (Nutra Sweet, Equal,
    Spoonful, etc) and you suffer from fibromyalgia symptoms, spasms,
    shooting, pains,numbness in your
    legs,
    Cramps,
    Vertigo,
    Dizziness,
    Headaches,
    Tinnitus,
    Joint
    pain,
    Unexplainable depression, anxiety attacks, slurred speech, blurred
    vision, or memory loss you probably have ASPARTAME poisoning!’
    People were jumping up during the lecture saying, ‘I have some of
    these symptoms. Is it reversible?’

    Yes!
    Yes!
    Yes!
    STOP drinking diet sodas and be alert for Aspartame
    on food labels! Many products are fortified with it! This is a
    serious problem.
    Dr. Espart (one of my speakers) remarked that so many people seem
    to be symptomatic for MS and during his recent visit to a hospice; a
    nurse stated that six of her friends, who were heavy Diet Coke
    addicts, had all been diagnosed with MS. This is beyond coincidence!

    Diet soda is NOT a diet product! It is a chemically altered,
    multiple SODIUM (salt) and ASPARTAME containing product that actually
    makes you crave carbohydrates.

    It is far more likely to make you GAIN weight!

    These products also contain formaldehyde, which stores in the fat
    cells, particularly in the hips and thighs. Formaldehyde is an
    absolute toxin and is used primarily to preserve ’tissue specimens.’

    Many products we use every day contain this chemical but we SHOULD
    NOT store it IN our body!

    Dr. H. J. Roberts stated in his lectures that once free of the
    ‘diet products’ and with no significant increase in exercise; his
    patients lost an average of 19 pounds over a trial period. Aspartame
    is especially dangerous for diabetics. We found that some physicians,
    who believed that they
    had a patient with retinopathy, in fact, had symptoms caused by
    Aspartame. The Aspartame drives the blood sugar out of control.
    Thus diabetics may suffer acute memory
    loss due to the fact that aspartic acid and phenylalanine are
    NEUROTOXIC when taken without the other amino acids necessary for a
    good balance.

    Treating diabetes is all about BALANCE.. Especially with diabetics,
    the Aspartame passes the blood/brain barrier and it then deteriorates
    the neurons of the brain; causing various levels of brain damage,
    Seizures,Depression, Manic depression, Panic attacks, Uncontrollable
    anger and rage. Consumption of Aspartame causes these same symptoms
    in non-diabetics as well. Documentation and
    observation also reveal that thousands of children diagnosed with
    ADD and ADHD have had complete turnarounds in their behavior when
    these chemicals have been removed from their diet.

    So called ‘behavior modification prescription drugs’
    (Ritalin and others) are no longer needed. Truth be told, they were
    never NEEDED in the first place!
    Most of these children were being ‘poisoned’ on a daily
    basis with the very foods that were ‘better for them than sugar.
    ‘It is also suspected that the Aspartame in thousands of pallets of
    diet Coke and diet Pepsi consumed by men and women fighting in the
    Gulf War, may be partially to blame for the well-known
    Gulf War Syndrome.

    Dr. Roberts warns that it can cause birth defects, i.e. mental
    retardation, if taken at the time of conception and during early
    pregnancy. Children are especially at risk for neurological
    disorders and should NEVER be given artificial sweeteners.

    There are many different case histories to relate of children
    suffering grand mal seizures and other neurological disturbances
    talking about a plague of neurological diseases directly caused by
    the use of this deadly poison.’

    Herein lies the problem: There were Congressional Hearings when
    Aspartame was included in 100 different products and strong objection
    was made concerning its use. Since this initial hearing, there have
    been two subsequent hearings, and still nothing has been done. The
    drug and chemical lobbies have very deep pockets.

    Sadly, MONSANTO’S patent on Aspartame has EXPIRED! There are
    now over 5,000 products on the market that contain this deadly
    chemical and there will be thousands more introduced. Everybody
    wants a ‘piece of the Aspartame pie. ‘I assure you that MONSANTO,
    the creator of Aspartame, knows how deadly it is.

    And isn’t it ironic that MONSANTO funds, among others, the
    American Diabetes Association, the American Dietetic Association
    and the Conference of the American College of Physicians?

    This has been recently exposed in the New York Times. These
    [organizations] cannot criticize any additives or convey their link
    to MONSANTO because they take money from the food industry and are
    required to endorse their products. Senator Howard Metzenbaum wrote
    and presented a bill that would require label warnings on products
    containing Aspartame, especially regarding pregnant women, children
    and infants.

    The bill would also institute independent studies on the known
    dangers and the problems existing in the general population regarding
    seizures, changes in brain chemistry, neurological changes and
    behavioural symptoms. The bill was killed. It is known that the
    powerful drug and chemical lobbies are responsible
    for this, letting loose the hounds of disease and death on an
    unsuspecting and uninformed public. Well, you’re informed now!

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