Raul Martinez

BRIEFING Why is Coca Cola bad for you?

Most people know Coca Cola is considered junk food, but what are some of the chemicals it contains? The healthy amount of caffeine a person What exactly is in Coca Cola? Although the Coca-Cola Company should consume is 76 mg of caffeine per says that their product has healthy day, but in the United States the average ingredients, Coca Cola contains person consumes 220 mg of caffeine per phosphoric acid. You can guess that day! Caffeine also has other side effects; phosphoric acid is bad for you just by for example it can make you get hearing the word acid. Phosphoric dehydrated and make you urinate more. acid has been shown to destroy bones Caffeine can also make you feel nervous, in your body when consumed in anxious or restless. It can also cause large amounts. Because of this, it stomach and headaches and even make damages and destroys your teeth if you have problems concentrating you drink a lot of coke. Coca Cola (Natterson). also contains food dyes and other Coca Cola kills people chemicals which can be classified as What happens to your body after an carcinogens. A carcinogen is a hour of consuming Coca Cola? substance that can cause cancer in the living tissue After 20 minutes of drinking Coca Cola, your body has (Coca-Cola). consumed 10 teaspoons of sugar which phosphoric acid cuts down the flavor of, so that you do not vomit. What are some illness Coca Cola causes? Also your liver responds to all this sugar by turning Sodas such as Coca Cola can cause many diseases. any sugar in its reach into fat. After 45 minutes your One of the most common ones is obesity. Coke body has absorbed all the caffeine and your blood contains large amounts of sugar that can cause heavy pressure rises. Once an hour has gone by caffeine Coca Cola drinkers to get this disease. Coca Cola can makes you urinate releasing all the calcium, zinc, and also cause kidney damage and cancer because of the magnesium that was going to your bones. It has also chemicals it contains. Pediatricians say that in a day, left you dehydrated and has weakened your bones 1,000 to 2,000 of their patients calories come from (Shayne). soda. Also, a 48% increase in heart attack is due to sodas such as Coca Cola Death by Coca Cola. (Boyles). Should people stop drinking Natasha Harris was only 30 years old when Coca Cola? she died of a heart attack. Dr. Dan Mornin Does caffeine in Coca Cola Overall, I would recommend found out she died of hypokalemia and low affect me? that people quit drinking Coca amounts of potassium which was caused by Caffeine is not only found in her excessive consumption of Coca Cola. She Cola because of all the damage coffee. Caffeine is also found in that it does to your body. also had toxic levels of caffeine which came many soft drinks. Although People need to understand that from Coca Cola. Harris partner says that caffeine can help you stay awake Coca Cola not only causes side Harris drank a little over 2 gallons of Coca when you need to, it still has effects, but it can also cause Cola every day. She would even drink Coca negative effects. Caffeine can someones death. If you still Cola when she woke up and before going to make it difficult for people to plan on drinking coke, I sleep. And although she also ate little and sleep at night. Caffeine also recommend that you drink Coca smoked, Harris death was majorly affected decreases the amount of sleep Cola in moderation. So next by her addiction with Coca Cola (Perry). you get during the night because time you open a Coca Cola, it causes the person to wake up think about this, what are you more often0 while they are trying really drinking? to sleep.

Should I Eat That? Project, HTHI Fall 2013

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Should I Eat That? Project, HTHI Fall 2013