Soda Sorrows

Soda, pop, coke, whatever you want to call it, has invariably changed.  A little over a decade ago soda was made with real cane sugar.  This sweetener is natural, tastes delicious, and is readily available in its natural form with little tampering.  Now the beverages that we grew so accustomed to and can't readily let go are sweetened with the devil himself.  No, not the devil but what I consider a subsidiary of him. 

High fructose corn syrup is now used to sweeten everything including soda.  This highly processed sweetener is unnaturally transformed in the body when converting it to energy.  It is made from corn which is unnatural in itself.  Corn has been tampered with in order to increase production and profit while decreasing cost.  Real corn is likely nonexistent.

Even if soda had real sugar its effects are catastrophic to the body once consumed.  Contained in one Coke is 100% of the suggested daily value off sugar, and that's for a grown adult.  The reason why the body allows this to happen is because the incredibly sweet flavor is usually cut by some acid (phosphoric acid) otherwise you would immediately eliminate it from your system (throw up).  This tidal wave of sugar drowns your body with serious chemical changes.  First your liver dumps massive amounts of insulin (a power hormone that helps introduce sugar into cells for energy) to deal with the sugar.  Once your tissues have all they can take your liver will transform left over sugars into fat for storage.  Your blood sugar level sky dives back down to fatiguing levels making it near impossible to get through the day without more Coke or something to eat (repeat process).

This process only takes into consideration the sugar side of soda.  Other items not mentioned are caffeine, phosphoric acid, carbonation, artificial sweeteners, and dyes.  In the next few weeks we will tackle one new aspect of how soda is poisoning us everyday.  We feel it is imperative to properly inform consumers especially since soda intake has increased just in the past six months.