Saturday, January 12, 2008

What Happens to Your Body Within an Hour of Drinking a Coke

I try to be as healthy as possible, but Coke is one of my weaknesses... I don't drink them that often but this article from http://www.mercola.com/ has reminded my to ask myself if I REALLY want one before I pop the top.

Do you want to be healthy? Drinking soda is bad for your health in so many ways; science can’t even state all the consequences. Here’s what happens in your body when you assault it with a Coke:

Within the first 10 minutes, 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. This is 100 percent of your recommended daily intake, and the only reason you don’t vomit as a result of the overwhelming sweetness is because phosphoric acid cuts the flavor.

Within 20 minutes, your blood sugar spikes, and your liver responds to the resulting insulin burst by turning massive amounts of sugar into fat.

Within 40 minutes, caffeine absorption is complete; your pupils dilate, your blood pressure rises, and your livers dumps more sugar into your bloodstream.

Around 45 minutes, your body increases dopamine production, which stimulates the pleasure centers of your brain – a physically identical response to that of heroin, by the way.

After 60 minutes, you’ll start to have a sugar crash.

Sources:
Nutrition Research Center October 24, 2007
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AWAKE

I have to wonder – why is it they we like to sleep in??? Why is it that when the alarm clock goes off that we are so anxious to hit the snooze button? Why do we hate to get out of bed? Are dreams that haunt us during our waking hours that much better than our reality?? If so this is not a life that is truly living! This is a life that is the equivalent to being on life support – is this how anyone really wants to live? Maybe some people are content to settle into a routine of a life. But, I don’t think most people are happy with that. I know I wouldn’t be – I wasn’t…. I lived that, or at least felt like I lived that. I was in a job that made me happy “enough”. I was married to a man that I knew was my soul mate, I had a house, a car, friends, and was close to my family. Yet, I always knew that something felt wrong. No matter how I tried to rationalize, struggle to make it fit – whatever – it just didn’t. I was not really happy. Even though I loved my family and my husband, all I could do was struggle to get from one day to the next. I was always watching the clock, waiting for the day to end - just so I could get home and get the day over with. Then the new day came but nothing was ever really new. Why, because I was afraid to try anything new. I was afraid to experiment with anything I was passionate about. I was stuck in a rut. The same old routine was safe. If it ain’t broke, why fix it? Well ya know –some things can be broken and still get you by… The question you have to ask is: “Do I just want to get by?” One day I just woke up and took inventory of my life and thought: “This is great but it can be better” I had to ask myself, “What will make me truly happy?” I looked at my life and assessed the parts that didn’t seem to fit me and tried to figure out what I could change. What can I do that will excite me? Make me truly happy? The main problem that I could see is that I was living a life that I was expected to live. Get married, get a job, get that house and dog, plan for kids - live the American Dream. My life was the perfect model of the American Dream - I was, in fact, living the American Dream. Then I realize the truth of my life… I was sleeping. The American Dream was nothing more than a nightmare, and I was afraid to wake up. I was hitting the snooze button on my life everyday – denying my own happiness, Afraid that any change was going to result in something less than what I had – never thinking that there may be something better than what I had. It was then that I realized that I was in charge of creating my own reality! We are all able to create whatever life we want for ourselves – but to do this we must be AWAKE!!

To understand what I mean by being AWAKE I think we first have to look at our ego. Lets take a second to define ego. Ego is not your true self; it is not your higher self. Ego is a series of memories and aspirations that you define as yourself. Your ego will tell you that what you have accomplished in the past defines you. So you dwell on the past because you feel that is your identity. Your ego will always try to keep you in the material world. If you get “this” or “that” you will be complete. Well guess what? The ego creates a never-ending cycle. The ego has to make us feel empty or incomplete in some way. If we do feel complete love and happiness then the ego will lose its identity and its control over us. Why do we let our ego rule us? The simple answer is fear – but what are we afraid of? Our ego tries to hold us prisoner in our own life. “You hate the world you live in, and yet you made it…. Because you have built yourselves into a prison of your own perceptions, you now know you life is meaningless. It is this pain that blinds you further to any meaning. It is the agony of this blindness that I hope will awaken you to your need for the earth and its lessons for you on an intimate level” 1 I will admit that this quote is a bit harsh, but sometimes it takes a jolt to wake up. When you realize that in this prison of your own perceptions – you are the jail keeper, you are the only one with the key. “Whenever you realize that you have the power to be free, freedom follows. Everything you do in your life is by choice, and you are free to choose again.” 2 You are the only one that can allow yourself experience happiness and freedom. Why are we afraid of this gift to which we are entitled? I know I was afraid. I was afraid that people would say that I was crazy, I was weird, or maybe laugh at me. But then I thought, “What would be so terrible about that?” I least I would be a happy crazy person. You can choose to live a life that makes you happy, or you can stay trapped in a life of complacency. You deserve to live a happy and fulfilling life. You can choose to be AWAKE. Now, having said all of that, it all comes down to these simple steps:

Ask - What makes you happy? Really think about it, and don’t be afraid to ask for the life that you see as perfect. Don’t worry about what others think.

Wait… You have to be patient. The universe may not work on your time schedule. You have to wait, be patient, and allow the divine plan to unfold.

Allow - the plan to unfold, and allow yourself to receive the gifts that are being given to you.

Know – Know that you deserve and will receive anything that you have asked for.

Enjoy - enjoy this moment, enjoy anything and everything you love that is in your life right now. Enjoy the fact that you have chosen to live the life of your dreams – Only it is no dream – you are AWAKE.


Tracy Evans
2006

1“For the Land of the Lost” - Hinono
2“Healing with the Angels” Oracle Cards - Doreen Virtue (Freedom Card