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Soda is bad for you! WARNING: (disgusting photos)
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Ok what about store bought Green tea, is that still bad even if I don't add sugar?
I drink a lot of tea, and I trying to find a healthy green tea brand, was thinking Trader Joes(Organic Produce Store).
I drink a lot of tea, and I trying to find a healthy green tea brand, was thinking Trader Joes(Organic Produce Store).
kitki83: Unsweetened tea is GREAT for you. I highly recommend drinking it. Even a little bit of sweetener of whatever kind (sugar, honey, etc.) would be quite all right.
Aspartame does not cause cancer or any other adverse side effects.
Again, aspartame is not "bad," and consuming excess sugar does not cause diabetes.
I don't get how these are "disgusting" photos. The OP isn't telling us anything we don't already know. Above all, I'm guessing it is disgusting to him that there is actually sugar on the scale and not what he probably usually weighs.
Soda is bad for you, it causes fat to clot in your body, blah blah. You can't really change people's minds by showing a series of photos on your pot, I mean postage scale and expect us all to feel the same way.
On a side note, I drink about one diet soda a week and that's usually just to get the craving to go away.
Soda is bad for you, it causes fat to clot in your body, blah blah. You can't really change people's minds by showing a series of photos on your pot, I mean postage scale and expect us all to feel the same way.
On a side note, I drink about one diet soda a week and that's usually just to get the craving to go away.
I was always told tea stains your teeth and has more caffeine than coffee.
However I'm sure it's still better for you than soda.
Well, I get the point the OP is trying to make. If I sat down on the couch with that much sugar in a bowl and started eating it up with a spoon, you'd think I was disgusting. But if I sat down and opened a can of Coke...
I don't know about past uses, but I have 2Ls of Dr. Pepper and bottles of Dublin DP. Both have 27g of sugar in 8oz servings.
(NB: Yes, I do have a lot of soda at home, but that's because I buy in bulk when it's on sale. Consumption isn't as high as it sounds.)
Actually its my sarcastic protest of sorts to this attitude that everything can be found bad for you. And I'm not talking about just food.
Meh...the occasional coke isn't going to hurt. I'd rather drink the real coke than the diet one loaded with chemicals
Real coke with carbon dioxide impregnated dihydrogen monoxide (carbonated water), sucrose (sugar), 1,3,7-trimethylxanthine (caffeine), sodium chloride (salt), phosphoric acid?
I really prefer non-chemical food-stuffs too.
pop isnt going to hurt anyone..rare occasions maybe. idk if anyone has noticed..but ANYTHING can be "found" bad for you. I have read articles on how drinking water in excess of a certain amount, which really wasnt very much water. moral..life is short..enjoy it while you can, just don't be stupid about it.
Aspartame is too new to make either call, honestly. I try to stay away from man made chemical stuff because it just plains scares me. How can it not have any calories? The only thing in nature with zero calories is water. Something seems fishy there.
And okay, technically overusing sugar does not cause diabetes, but that's being nit-picky, because the high caloric content associated with foods and drinks with excessively high and unnecessary sugar content DOES cause diabetes.
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I never understood why coke keeps diluting my can of sugar with water and artificial flavoring. Someone needs to take pictures of how much liquid it takes to ruin a good can of sugar.
I never understood why coke keeps diluting my can of sugar with water and artificial flavoring. Someone needs to take pictures of how much liquid it takes to ruin a good can of sugar.
For me, water and skim milk almost exclusively, skim chocolate milk every now and then, and Gatorade if I have an extremely strenuous workout.
I used to drink Pepsi all the time several years ago, a bottle or more a day, and would feel good when I drink it, and horrible afterwards due to the sugar crash. Giving it up was initially tough, what with the two-day sugar withdrawal headache and tiredness, but after sticking with it (and realizing how much money I was saving), I felt SOOOOO much better. The best part about ditching soda is after some time, it's not something you want to come back to. I remember having a pop once months after giving it up, and it tasted awful.
I used to drink Pepsi all the time several years ago, a bottle or more a day, and would feel good when I drink it, and horrible afterwards due to the sugar crash. Giving it up was initially tough, what with the two-day sugar withdrawal headache and tiredness, but after sticking with it (and realizing how much money I was saving), I felt SOOOOO much better. The best part about ditching soda is after some time, it's not something you want to come back to. I remember having a pop once months after giving it up, and it tasted awful.
The same can be said for the consumption of excess calories in general. Sodas seem to get picked on because people can't control their intake. That doesn't make soda inherently bad.
All food is chemicals. You could break down the structure of a ham sandwich or oatmeal the same way.
No, it's not. It's been on the market and in widespread use for decades with no discernible health effects. If it caused cancer there would have been an explosion of it in the population by now that just hasn't happened.
Aspartame, like most artificial sweeteners, contains a low number of calories per gram. The amount of product needed to sweeten is so little that the nutritive value of these calories is negligible.
Anything that has no energy has zero calories. There are plenty of components in our diets other than water that have no energy.
My brain isn't working properly today. You'll have to give me an example of some sort, because I can't think of one.
I guess if you exclude all fatty products as well, which your body does store as energy and burn as needed, then there must be something. I just wouldn't count this as an example of what you said.
All I can think of is water. And even then, just because something doesn't have any calories, does NOT mean it's better for you. Calories are needed, as are carbs, fat, etc. Over-worrying doesn't make any sense to me. I'm afraid of all the chemicals added to food, but I'm not worried about carbs and fat unless I know I'm eating these things in excess. When I know this, I eat something else, or stop eating.
Well well well.. Where to start?
Coke (or any soft drink, diet or not) is so acidic from the phosphoric acid (!) in it. But diet drinks don't feed the plaque and bacteria like HFCS or sugar in nondiet does. So instead of bubble and dissolve your teeth out and feed the bacteria, you just dissolve your teeth out.
But I love diet drinks. I can't handle regular now. The week I stopped drinking nondiet soda I lost ~7 lbs. I hate milk because I have never stomached it well and because milk is for baby cows. You don't see us feeding cows breast milk. And milk holds the most fecal coloforms than most other foods (I'd link but I'm on iPhone.)
I also hate "100% Juice: From Concentrate." It is so contradictory. Plus it tasted awful..
Stevia is AMAZING stuff. It is extracted from the leaves of the stevia plans and sold as a "dietary supplement" due to some red tape. I found it in Walmart one day in packets. It tastes quite like sugar, but it is an onset sweetness so it melds nicely with whatever you put it in but not like BAM! sweet like sugar. Try it!
Anyone else share my oddities?
Coke (or any soft drink, diet or not) is so acidic from the phosphoric acid (!) in it. But diet drinks don't feed the plaque and bacteria like HFCS or sugar in nondiet does. So instead of bubble and dissolve your teeth out and feed the bacteria, you just dissolve your teeth out.
But I love diet drinks. I can't handle regular now. The week I stopped drinking nondiet soda I lost ~7 lbs. I hate milk because I have never stomached it well and because milk is for baby cows. You don't see us feeding cows breast milk. And milk holds the most fecal coloforms than most other foods (I'd link but I'm on iPhone.)
I also hate "100% Juice: From Concentrate." It is so contradictory. Plus it tasted awful..
Stevia is AMAZING stuff. It is extracted from the leaves of the stevia plans and sold as a "dietary supplement" due to some red tape. I found it in Walmart one day in packets. It tastes quite like sugar, but it is an onset sweetness so it melds nicely with whatever you put it in but not like BAM! sweet like sugar. Try it!
Anyone else share my oddities?
This is why it's pasteurized. But that doesn't matter to me because my body can't process liquid milk.
Feces contains chemicals as well as various compounds. And pasteurization does not remove/kill inorganic things.
This is true, but did you also know that every time you brush your teeth your putting tons of fecal coloforms into your mouth.
My point: people don't die from drinking milk. There are tons of nasty things that we ingest every day without knowing it. You'll live. Our bodies are far more resilient than people think.
I highly agree. To me, nothing goes better with pizza or chinese food than an ice cold Coke ... okay, or beer.
You're much, much more likely to get diabetes by inheriting weight problems. This is why people say diabetes runs in the family (even though it technically doesn't). ^ is just a stretch.