Cleaning Out Your Pantry

Is purging your pantry on your "to do" list for Spring Cleaning? Are there old herbs and spices, food products containing high fructose corn syrup or hydrogenated fats lurking in your pantry? Take a deep breath, grab your trash bag and begin. Dr Oz talks you through a 1 Minute to Better Health: Purge Your Pantry. Your family will thank you for it!

What Every Cola Drinker Should Know

You've heard it all before - cola is bad for your health. Loaded with sugar, it affects your liver, blood pressure, teeth, etc.

So, what happens within the first hour of downing your favorite beverage?

• 10-Minutes: About 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system, close to 100% of the recommended daily intake. This would normally cause a person to vomit, but phosphoric acid cuts the sweetness.


• 20-Minutes: You blood sugar skyrockets and your liver responds by turning the massive amount of sugar to fat.


• 40-Minutes: Your body absorbs the caffeine, your pupils dilate, your blood pressure rises and your liver dumps more sugar into your bloodstream.


• 45-Minutes: Your body increases dopamine production which tricks you into feeling pleasure - a physically identical response to that of heroin.


• 60-Minutes: The sugar crash begins. As your blood sugar drops, you crave more.
  

Mmmm...yummy!

Source: Organic Consumers