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Updated on 12/20/2006 at 10:03PM EST

Here's a snippet from a neat article about the health benefits of drinking Coke, or any soft drink for that matter.

Have you ever wondered why Coke comes with a smile? It’s because it gets you high. They took the cocaine out almost a hundred years ago. You know why? It was redundant.

In The First 10 minutes: 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. (100% of your recommended daily intake.) You don’t immediately vomit from the overwhelming sweetness because phosphoric acid cuts the flavor allowing you to keep it down.

Thirsty? Check out the rest of the article.

Take it with a grain of, er, salt. Our bodies are built to handle the rigors of drinking a softdrink, but it is good to know exactly how we metabolize the stuff, as well as how it negatively impacts our bodies, besides the banal axiom, "it's fattening".