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  • In the first 10 minutes, 10 teaspoons of sugar enters in to your body, which is 100% of your daily-recommended intake.  Instead of vomiting, phosphoric acid helps keep the sugar in your system.
  • After about 20 minutes, your blood sugar hits the roof and your body cannot produce enough insulin to bring your blood sugar down so your liver has to help out and responds by changing the sugar into fat.
  • After about 40 min you feel awake and amazing! This is when the caffeine has kicked in and your body has by now produced a lot of dopamine, which is the “happy hormone” and gives us the same satisfactory feeling as heroine or other drugs.
  • 60 min later you feel like you have to pee and then after that comes the crash – you feel tired and want even more sugar to get back on top.  It’s a vicious downward cycle.

Source: Better Health News, Vol 1, No 1, August 2007

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