Coke is one of the most popular drinks. You may not like drinking water, but you won’t resist a coke, or even just want to drink coke. If your wish is fulfilled now and you are allowed to use coke instead of water every day, what will happen to your body?
People who drink coke for a long time
A Moroccan woman didn’t drink a mouthful of water since she was 15. She only drank carbonated drinks such as coke every day, about 2 liters a day. This situation lasted 16 years until she fainted suddenly at the age of 31 and was sent to the hospital for treatment.
She was found to have a seriously low potassium content and had heart problems without a family genetic heart history.
And George Pryor of the United States, who launched a challenge – drinking 10 cans of coke a day for a month. A month later, his weight, body fat and blood pressure all increased. Pryor’s stomach was like a balloon blowing up, and his temper began to become grumpy.
What did coke do to their bodies?
Drink fat in disguise
If you just drink coke instead of water, according to people’s daily water consumption, you should drink about 4 bottles of 500ml coke a day.
Don’t underestimate these four bottles of coke. One bottle contains 53 grams of free sugar, and the World Health Organization recommends that people’s daily intake of free sugar should not exceed 50 grams.
Four bottles of Coke will undoubtedly make your daily sugar intake seriously exceed the standard. These excess sugar can not be metabolized by the body, and will be transformed into fat and accumulated in your body, which will not only lead to obesity, but also increase the risk of fatty liver and cardiovascular disease.
Therefore, you are equivalent to drinking fat in disguise every day.
Teeth become “coke teeth”
Have you ever noticed a strange phenomenon? When you drink a bottle of coke and lick your teeth with your tongue, you will feel astringent.
This is caused by the carbonic acid in coke. Carbonic acid will produce carbon dioxide, making coke full of bubbles and refreshing.
However, carbonic acid also decomposes the enamel on the surface of the teeth, making the teeth astringent. The sugar in coke also nourishes bacteria on the teeth.
Your teeth will gradually become fragile and sensitive. If you don’t brush your teeth in time, it will lead to tooth decay and even complete decay. This symptom is also known as “coke teeth”.
Always want to go to the bathroom
After you choose to quench your thirst with coke every day, you will find that you go to the bathroom more often.
This comes from another flavor ingredient in coke – caffeine. Caffeine is a natural diuretic. If you eat too much, you will urinate more. Excessive urination will lead to the loss of potassium in the body and cause heart problems.
Physical sleepiness and poor mood
Coke is also jokingly called “happy water”. People who drink coke often feel refreshed, which is also the role of caffeine. Caffeine can have a refreshing effect, but excessive caffeine will stimulate the brain and keep the brain in an excited state.
If you drink coke at night, it is easy to cause insomnia. In the long run, it will make your brain and body tired, and people’s mood will be affected, becoming easy to be anxious and irritable.
In addition, the gas produced in Coke will increase the pressure on the stomach, make people bloat and burp, affect people’s normal diet and lead to malnutrition.
The Moroccan woman and Pryor mentioned above are also aware of these problems. After they stopped drinking coke for a period of time, their health improved.
Therefore, drinking coke as water is not a good habit. For the sake of health, you’d better drink less coke.
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