The sound of someone cracking open a can of Coke on a hot summer’s day is pretty alluring, and everywhere you turn you will find one of the world’s biggest brands adorning walls and billboards.

All of the above does make it hard to stop guzzling the fizzy drink, especially when you consider how well it goes with brandy. You might want to check out these breakdowns below, however, given that the effects on your body of necking a can are almost instantaneous.

A blog run by a former pharmacist based in the U.S carries this infographic below, which you can click on for a full-size image. We’ll spell it out via the Daily Mail for those who prefer their bad news in text form:

In The First 10 minutes: 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. (100 per cent of your recommended daily intake.) You don’t immediately vomit from the overwhelming sweetness because phosphoric acid cuts the flavour allowing you to keep it down.

20 minutes: Your blood sugar spikes, causing an insulin burst. Your liver responds to this by turning any sugar it can get its hands on into fat. (There’s plenty of that at this particular moment). 

40 minutes: Caffeine absorption is complete. Your pupils dilate, your blood pressure rises, as a response your livers dumps more sugar into your bloodstream. The adenosine receptors in your brain are now blocked preventing drowsiness.

45 minutes: Your body ups your dopamine production stimulating the pleasure centres of your brain. This is physically the same way heroin works, by the way.

>60 minutes: The phosphoric acid binds calcium, magnesium and zinc in your lower intestine, providing a further boost in metabolism. 

This is compounded by high doses of sugar and artificial sweeteners also increasing the urinary excretion of calcium.

>60 Minutes: The caffeine’s diuretic properties come into play. (It makes you have to pee.) 

It is now assured that you’ll evacuate the bonded calcium, magnesium and zinc that was headed to your bones as well as sodium, electrolyte and water.

>60 minutes: As the rave inside of you dies down you’ll start to have a sugar crash. 

The dreaded sugar crash, that moment that turns cute toddlers into tiny balls of hate and co-workers into those who should be avoided around the water cooler.

You know what keeps the young’uns in order and keeps workplace morale high? Drinks that aren’t crammed full of ridiculous amounts of sugar and other nasty additives. That’s why we keep our fridges full of Cocofina, the tasty treat full of things we actually want to be putting into our bodies.

You can check out our specials on a case HERE, or you can enjoy another crash and burn moment that leaves your co-workers avoiding you like the plague…your call.

[sources:truththeory&dailymail]