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

1. 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.

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

3. Within 40 minutes, caffeine absorption is complete; your pupils dilate, your blood pressure rises, and your livers dumps more sugar into your bloodstream. * Your kidneys are pushed to the max to rid your body of the sugar, to try and express the sugar through the urinary tract (sugar is very acidic and plays a major role in urinary tract infections). Your body is forced to over-exert its’ energy for the day as the caffeine manipulates the body into working a higher rate than what is natural.

4. 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. * This is what makes Coke addictive, it should be considered a drug.

5. After 60 minutes, you’ll start to have a sugar crash. * After your body has been manipulated into a higher blood pressure, a higher metabolic rate, and a release of dopamine, it becomes exhausted. Drinking coke (or any caffeine) disturbs the natural function of the body, forcing an unnatural high and subsequent crash, forcing the liver and kidneys to work overtime. In some cases, the liver begins to tire of the roller coaster ride, and it becomes more difficult to produce insulin. This is why we have an epidemic of adult onset type ii diabetes, and also children’s diabetes. Sugar and caffeine in the diet also plays a major role in ADD/ADHD.

If you find yourself unexplainably tired, you might consider the amount of caffeine and sugar you put into your body each day. We all like our coffee and sugar, cutting back to a reasonable amount (less than 1 cup of coffee or 1 Coke per day) might be a really GOOD thing to do. It is a very positive step in listening to your body’s needs and balancing it with pleasures.

Sources:
Nutrition Research Center October 24, 2007
*Additional comments by Wendy
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by Maria P. - Life Change Learning Inc.

Attention Defecit Disorder Generation

As the pace and fullness of modern life serve to isolate us from one another, the contact we do share becomes vastly more significant. We unconsciously absorb each other’s energy, adopting the temperament of those with whom we share close quarters, and find ourselves changed after the briefest encounters. Everything we do or say has the potential to affect not only the individuals we live, work, and play with but also those we’ve just met. Continue to full article >>

by Faith Ranoli

You always have two choices in anything you feel, do or say. Respond from your fear center or from your love center.

Fear is not necessarily a bad thing. It is energy that will either fuel change in your life or paralyze you. You can harness the attributes of fear and create your life’s work. Or you can be stopped dead in your tracks because you feel unsafe in this world and cannot hear your soul’s direction.

Watch your thoughts and your emotions. Are they fearful or loving? Each time you align with fear you keep yourself in confusion.

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There are two key natural healing therapies that can be used to relieve ADD and ADHD. They are flower essences. Flower Essences address soul issues, vibrational disharmonies, and energetic inbalances within our bodies. We live in an etheric body which contains three main items; the mind, the body and the spirit. Current drug therapies address the mind and the body, but they do not address the spirit.

Flower Essences are vibrational remedies that assist with largely emotional “diseases” (so called) such as ADD and ADHD. Dill and Madia are two very acute remedies for this “disease” as doctors call it.

The reason that I put disease in quotations is because today’s children are bored in our schools. Our children have evolved into small sized wisdom keepers, they understand complex issues faster than I ever did as a child. The new age community refers to these children as Indigo Children or Crystal Children. I recommend reading Doreen Virtue’s Book The Crystal Children. Different books point out a stark difference in today’s child behavior than in past generations. Instead of treating these new behaviors as “diseases”, we need to take a look at whats really going on. The children see fairies, they blurt out things about their past lives, they tell us we are “making bad decisions” in their 2 and 3 year old voices. Some of us see this as unruly behavior, where these children have little regard for parents or teachers. Its not that they are trying to be disrespectful, its that they understand and point out problems that they can plainly see in their evolved status. While we are worn down and used to the wrong ways of the world, these new kids with fresh eyes see blaring issues.

I mean honestly, look at math homework. Can we adults sit down and do 40 math subtraction problems with any patience at all? How can we expect this of our little light beings?

They “get it” moreso than we ever did. I welcome your comments or email for more information and discussion.

I encourage you to read the two specific flower essence remedies, Dill and Madia .
Also, read an opinionated article on the issue of today’s diagnosis of ADD and ADHD,
Attention Defecit Syndrome
How to Catch ADD