"Coke Adds ....?"

“Water, water everywhere and coke's our favourite drink.”

Coca cola has led Australia's supermarket brand sales for the last decade selling over five hundred million dollars of this nutritionally barren product every year. Coke may lead the brand race but should it lead your choice of drinks to quench your thirst?

The problem with coke and other soft drinks is their high sugar content. Just one can of coke contains over thirty grams of carbohydrate.

To put this in perspective the average woman should eat somewhere around twenty to thirty grams of carbohydrate in a whole meal. All that excess carbohydrate from the sugar in soft drinks can cause real problems in your body.

The sugar is converted into blood glucose in your body rapidly triggering the release of a hormone called insulin.