This is your body on Coca-Cola

Drew Atkins

Drew Atkins Jul 6, 2025

Jan 12, 2018

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                <h1>This is your body on Coca-Cola</h1>
                <h2><p>We all know Coca Cola is unhealthy. However, few of us imagine that we'd immediately vomit it up, if it weren't for the phosphoric acid added to it. This is the claim of a recent post by the Renegade Pharmacist, which is making the rounds of</p></h2>
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               <p>By <a href="/author/drewatkins1-gmail-com/">Drew Atkins</a></p> 
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            <p>We all know Coca Cola is unhealthy. However, few of us imagine that we'd immediately vomit it up, if it weren't for the phosphoric acid added to it. This is the claim of a recent post by the <a href="http://therenegadepharmacist.com/what-happens-one-hour-after-drinking-a-can-of-coke/?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">Renegade Pharmacist</a>, which is making the rounds of the Internet today.  Within an hour of drinking a Coke, other effects include a heroin-like stimulation of your brain's pleasure sensors (Nice!) and a draining of important nutrients from your body (Bad!). For those who don't believe ignorance is bliss, Huffington Post UK whipped up a <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/07/29/how-coca-cola-affects-body-infographic_n_7895304.html?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">nice infographic</a> detailing all the purported effects.</p>
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We all know Coca Cola is unhealthy. However, few of us imagine that we'd immediately vomit it up, if it weren't for the phosphoric acid added to it. This is the claim of a recent post by the Renegade Pharmacist, which is making the rounds of the Internet today. Within an hour of drinking a Coke, other effects include a heroin-like stimulation of your brain's pleasure sensors (Nice!) and a draining of important nutrients from your body (Bad!). For those who don't believe ignorance is bliss, Huffington Post UK whipped up a nice infographic detailing all the purported effects.

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By Drew Atkins

Drew Atkins is a journalist and writer in Seattle, and the recipient of numerous national and regional awards. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Seattle Times, The Oregonian, InvestigateWes