Man Drinks 10 Cokes a Day; Puts On 10.5 Kilograms In A Month

A 50-year-old father from Los Angeles, George Prior, had 10 cans of Coca-Cola a day for a period of one month. He then monitored his weight and health changes after adding that to his diet.

According to the Sydney Morning Herald, the experiment of Mr Prior is similar to that of Morgan Spurlock, a filmmaker, who ate nothing but McDonald's for a span of a month. It was a part of Super Size Me, an American documentary film.

Mr Prior updated both, his Facebook as well as his YouTube channel, to show the transformation of his body after he undertook the experiment. His updates include five video diaries. The change in diet costed him a weight gain of a massive 10.5 kilograms. His body fat percentage also took a leap from 9 to 16 percent.

Mr Prior, in the first video of his video diaries, said that he had just gotten back from the doctor where he had a complete physical. He added that he was in good health and the one change that he was going to make to his diet was that he was going to start drinking 10 Cokes a day. He said that it added 1400 more calories to his daily intake. He continued that he was going to see how the increase in sugar and insulin load would affect his health.

He said that according to the US department of Agriculture, more than half the people in America consumed a daily equivalent of 10 Cokes per day, in various combinations of energy drinks, juices and other dietary forms. He said that he took part in the experiment because of what the US department of Agriculture said.

He noted that because of the intake of the Cokes, he lost his appetite and tended to eat less. He began the experiment with his weight at 76.4 kilograms. By the ninth day of the experiment, he realised that he weighed 80 kilograms, which means that he had gained 3.6 kilograms. Due to the change in diet, he said that he did not feel good nor did he feel well. He constantly complained of stomach pains and felt full all the time. At the end of the experiment, he said that he would prefer not doing it again and that he did not like being heavy.

According to the Telegraph, the World Health Organisation had asked people to cut down their daily sugar consumption by half. This advice from the WHO came after Dame Sally Davies, a chief medical officer in Britain, said that a sugar tax might be needed to bring down the obesity rates.