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saint_monkeyi've tried to quit coca-cola like other people have tried to quit smoking.
once i stopped drinking coke for a whole year, it was the first time i went to korea. (I actually stopped drinking anything carbonated, didn't eat anything that derived more than 20% of it's calories from fat, and ran a mile and a half every other day.) i must say that it was kicking the coke that was extremely hard, even when i allowed myself coffee and espresso. after a while i was over it, but i still dreamed about it. (i'm jesus, greetings my son, you've done a man's job, well done and welcome to heaven, oh yeah,,, have a coke.) then when i went home on a visit, my mom packed the trunk of my car with a whole case of the stuff. i was pretty poor at the time, living n the dorm after my recent divorce. depressed. alone. thirsty. it's water or perhaps one of those cokes. (you've done well, my son... have a coke.)
after a few years, i met mystery. then i went to korea a second time, i quit eating all red meat, and cut my chicken intake to about one item every two months or so. when i came home from korea and moved in with mystery, i quit coke again for about 6 months, (we also quit tv at that time) and then i got a job at Microsoft working real early hours on the Cusotmer Service telephone lines. You couldn't leave the chair except for scheduled breaks, they had this software that could tell if you were off the phones for more than 3 minutes. And it also knew if you were taking calls and padding them to last longer than three minutes. Living hell. The only upside was all the free coke you could drink. I'd go into the break room, and be just beat, and coffee wouldn't do it for me, no. i wanted one of those shiney red cokes, just sitting in the fridge all happy. just like a bomb. (You've done well, my son...)
now i drink a liter of coke a day (at least) we would save $60 a month (minimum) if i could stop, plus, each coke is about 500 empty calories that turn right into FAT. i'd hate to think about the possibility of type 2 diabetes. (Diabetes results from the body's inability to create insulin to metabolize glucose. it can be genetic (type 1, aka "juvenile onset diabetes) or it can be a situation caused by abuse of the system, (type 2) the body craps out and just can't handle all the sugar you pump in, it finally says no more insulin for you, asshole. Probably one of the largest factors in whether you'll get type 2 (aside from eating a buttload of sugar) is heredity. Some folks have bodies that can handle lots of sugars, some don't.) My uncle died from type 2 diabetes, as did my great uncle, and yet every day i send this flood of glucose right into my blood. The carbonation leaches the calcium from my bones, my kidneys are taxed. Phosphoric acid will etch a penny in a day, i've seen it. coke is loaded with the stuff, enough to act as a battery. the kidney can take a lot of abuse, just one kidney, operating at 20% efficiency, can filter your entire bloodstream easily for about ten years. but 3/4 of every heartbeat goes to the kidney, all fluids taken in are filtered there. it can process the equivalent of a double-tall latte every minute. you want to kill somebody, stab them in the kidney, they'll bleed out before they can clot. so we've established, target the kidney = death. that's what coke is doing best, taxing the kidney, first on the processing side, then on the blood sugar front. excess glucose in the blood leads to degredation of the retinas and the kidney.
coke is bad. very bad.
and i've got one in the fridge right now. chillin.
i gotta go.
once i stopped drinking coke for a whole year, it was the first time i went to korea. (I actually stopped drinking anything carbonated, didn't eat anything that derived more than 20% of it's calories from fat, and ran a mile and a half every other day.) i must say that it was kicking the coke that was extremely hard, even when i allowed myself coffee and espresso. after a while i was over it, but i still dreamed about it. (i'm jesus, greetings my son, you've done a man's job, well done and welcome to heaven, oh yeah,,, have a coke.) then when i went home on a visit, my mom packed the trunk of my car with a whole case of the stuff. i was pretty poor at the time, living n the dorm after my recent divorce. depressed. alone. thirsty. it's water or perhaps one of those cokes. (you've done well, my son... have a coke.)
after a few years, i met mystery. then i went to korea a second time, i quit eating all red meat, and cut my chicken intake to about one item every two months or so. when i came home from korea and moved in with mystery, i quit coke again for about 6 months, (we also quit tv at that time) and then i got a job at Microsoft working real early hours on the Cusotmer Service telephone lines. You couldn't leave the chair except for scheduled breaks, they had this software that could tell if you were off the phones for more than 3 minutes. And it also knew if you were taking calls and padding them to last longer than three minutes. Living hell. The only upside was all the free coke you could drink. I'd go into the break room, and be just beat, and coffee wouldn't do it for me, no. i wanted one of those shiney red cokes, just sitting in the fridge all happy. just like a bomb. (You've done well, my son...)
now i drink a liter of coke a day (at least) we would save $60 a month (minimum) if i could stop, plus, each coke is about 500 empty calories that turn right into FAT. i'd hate to think about the possibility of type 2 diabetes. (Diabetes results from the body's inability to create insulin to metabolize glucose. it can be genetic (type 1, aka "juvenile onset diabetes) or it can be a situation caused by abuse of the system, (type 2) the body craps out and just can't handle all the sugar you pump in, it finally says no more insulin for you, asshole. Probably one of the largest factors in whether you'll get type 2 (aside from eating a buttload of sugar) is heredity. Some folks have bodies that can handle lots of sugars, some don't.) My uncle died from type 2 diabetes, as did my great uncle, and yet every day i send this flood of glucose right into my blood. The carbonation leaches the calcium from my bones, my kidneys are taxed. Phosphoric acid will etch a penny in a day, i've seen it. coke is loaded with the stuff, enough to act as a battery. the kidney can take a lot of abuse, just one kidney, operating at 20% efficiency, can filter your entire bloodstream easily for about ten years. but 3/4 of every heartbeat goes to the kidney, all fluids taken in are filtered there. it can process the equivalent of a double-tall latte every minute. you want to kill somebody, stab them in the kidney, they'll bleed out before they can clot. so we've established, target the kidney = death. that's what coke is doing best, taxing the kidney, first on the processing side, then on the blood sugar front. excess glucose in the blood leads to degredation of the retinas and the kidney.
coke is bad. very bad.
and i've got one in the fridge right now. chillin.
i gotta go.
