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One 20oz (vending machine size) bottle of Coke per day is 52 lbs of sugar (well, actually high fructose corn syrup) per year. Next time you go shopping, count

One 20oz (vending machine size) bottle of Coke per day is 52 lbs of sugar (well, actually high fructose corn syrup) per year. Next time you go shopping, count 10 5-lb bags of sugar. Each and every year. Ironically, the land for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) which is located in Atlanta, Georgia was donated by none other than The Coca Cola Company.

duaneb 11y ago
> Ironically, the land for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) which is located in Atlanta, Georgia was donated by none other than The Coca Cola Company. I don't think this is ironic at all. A company needs living clientele. Also, the CDC has better epidemics to worry about than the obesity one. I frankly don't care if people want to be fat.
- undersuit 11y ago
  What makes you think people want to be fat?
  - duaneb 11y ago
    > What makes you think people want to be fat? Because I want to be fat.... health is overrated compared to how it effects quality of life.
    - DanBC 11y ago
      I want you to print out this thread and look back at it in thirty years time.
      - duaneb 11y ago
        Hopefully, I won't be alive. The trick of maintaining a high quality of life is not overstaying your welcome.
- totalrobe 11y ago
  Don't know anybody personally that wants to be fat, but I many that are overweight and obese because of misleading and manufactured nutritional data.
  - duaneb 11y ago
    > Don't know anybody personally that wants to be fat, but I many that are overweight and obese because of misleading and manufactured nutritional data. No, they're overweight because of their diet and lifestyle. Not all obese people are too stupid to realize this. I don't know what "misleading and manufactured nutritional data", but a) watching caloric input and b) exercise have been known as being primary to weight control since antiquity. No matter what your preferences are, you can tweak those two factors to lose weight. Nobody has forced Americans to consume complacently. I'm not sure how it's been so hard to see.
    - Frozenlock 11y ago
      "(...) a) watching caloric input and b) exercise have been known as being primary to weight control since antiquity." No. No, no, no and no. This kind of misinformation is -=dangerous=-. It pushes overweight people into a dead end which will result only in frustration and sickness. What was known was that WHAT you eat can make you fat. Exercise has no impact on your weight (fat-wise). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0GSSSE4l8U&feature=youtu.be&t=22m50s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0GSSSE4l8U&feature=youtu.be... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ0pz4Ggpis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ0pz4Ggpis
      - coryl 11y ago
        Your links are terribly long, do you have anything specific to show that exercise won't help you lose weight?
        DanBC 11y ago
        You can look at Cochrane collaborations. These show that exercise alone doesn't do much for weight loss. Most people who exercise and who need to lose weight overestimate the calories they lose from exercise and underestimate the calories they get from food, and so they end up not doing enough exercise and then thinking they can have a food treat. Exercise is almost always a good idea. It just shouldn't be pushed as something primarily for weight loss.
- babygoat 11y ago
  > Also, the CDC has better epidemics to worry about than the obesity one. They can worry about more than one thing. > I frankly don't care if people want to be fat. No one cares that you don't care.
  - duaneb 11y ago
    Peoples' diets are not the CDC's responsibility.
    - jacobolus 11y ago
      You are wrong. Here’s the CDC’s mission statement: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) serves as the national focus for developing and applying disease prevention and control, environmental health, and health promotion and health education activities designed to improve the health of the people of the United States. To accomplish its mission, CDC identifies and defines preventable health problems and maintains active surveillance of diseases through epidemiologic and laboratory investigations and data collection, analysis, and distribution; serves as the PHS lead agency in developing and implementing operational programs relating to environmental health problems, and conducts operational research aimed at developing and testing effective disease prevention, control, and health promotion programs; administers a national program to develop recommended occupational safety and health standards and to conduct research, training, and technical assistance to assure safe and healthful working conditions for every working person; develops and implements a program to sustain a strong national workforce in disease prevention and control; and conducts a national program for improving the performance of clinical laboratories. CDC is responsible for controlling the introduction and spread of infectious diseases, and provides consultation and assistance to other nations and international agencies to assist in improving their disease prevention and control, environmental health, and health promotion activities. CDC administers the Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant and specific preventive health categorical grant programs while providing program expertise and assistance in responding to Federal, State, local, and private organizations on matters related to disease prevention and control activities. http://www.cdc.gov/maso/pdf/cdcmiss.pdf http://www.cdc.gov/maso/pdf/cdcmiss.pdf Poor diets are clearly related to “preventable health problems”, and can be mitigated via “health promotion and health education activities”, etc. This falls under the CDC’s Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity, DNPAO. http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpao/division-information/aboutus/ http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpao/division-information/aboutu... Here’s the CDC’s nutrition webpage: http://www.cdc.gov/nutrition/ http://www.cdc.gov/nutrition/
- cLeEOGPw 11y ago
  Which epidemic is better than obesity?
- davidf18 11y ago
  > Also, the CDC has better epidemics to worry about than the obesity one. I frankly don't care if people want to be fat But you might worry that obesity and lack of exercise is a major portion of our health care costs which comes out of your pocketbook through higher taxes for Medicaid, Medicare, Federal, State, and City employee health care costs, retired military, .... Also, your health insurance costs are higher and if your employee pays for your health insurance then your employers health insurance payments are larger meaning less money for salaries.
sliverstorm 11y ago
The average human is advised to drink eight 8oz glasses of water each day. That's 182 gallons of water per year. Next time you go shopping, count out 182 1-gallon jugs of water. Each and every year. I understand the pitfalls of sugar. But I don't think these kinds of analysis by themselves really teach us anything.
- coryl 11y ago
  The visual analogy is more jarring: http://thefuturebuzz.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/sugar-content-of-soda.jpg http://thefuturebuzz.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/sugar-co...
  - sliverstorm 11y ago
    The point is a visual analogy can be jarring without meaning anything at all. 182 gallons of water is a lot of water. It's very visually jarring. But so what? Just because it's a lot of water doesn't really mean anything.
    - coryl 11y ago
      The point is you know sugar is bad for you, so seeing an overwhelming volume of "toxic" material you consume is shocking. It doesn't work with water because you don't care about water.

duaneb 11y ago

> Ironically, the land for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) which is located in Atlanta, Georgia was donated by none other than The Coca Cola Company. I don't think this is ironic at all. A company needs living clientele. Also, the CDC has better epidemics to worry about than the obesity one. I frankly don't care if people want to be fat.

undersuit 11y ago
What makes you think people want to be fat?
- duaneb 11y ago
  > What makes you think people want to be fat? Because I want to be fat.... health is overrated compared to how it effects quality of life.
  - DanBC 11y ago
    I want you to print out this thread and look back at it in thirty years time.
    - duaneb 11y ago
      Hopefully, I won't be alive. The trick of maintaining a high quality of life is not overstaying your welcome.
totalrobe 11y ago
Don't know anybody personally that wants to be fat, but I many that are overweight and obese because of misleading and manufactured nutritional data.
- duaneb 11y ago
  > Don't know anybody personally that wants to be fat, but I many that are overweight and obese because of misleading and manufactured nutritional data. No, they're overweight because of their diet and lifestyle. Not all obese people are too stupid to realize this. I don't know what "misleading and manufactured nutritional data", but a) watching caloric input and b) exercise have been known as being primary to weight control since antiquity. No matter what your preferences are, you can tweak those two factors to lose weight. Nobody has forced Americans to consume complacently. I'm not sure how it's been so hard to see.
  - Frozenlock 11y ago
    "(...) a) watching caloric input and b) exercise have been known as being primary to weight control since antiquity." No. No, no, no and no. This kind of misinformation is -=dangerous=-. It pushes overweight people into a dead end which will result only in frustration and sickness. What was known was that WHAT you eat can make you fat. Exercise has no impact on your weight (fat-wise). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0GSSSE4l8U&feature=youtu.be&t=22m50s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0GSSSE4l8U&feature=youtu.be... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ0pz4Ggpis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ0pz4Ggpis
    - coryl 11y ago
      Your links are terribly long, do you have anything specific to show that exercise won't help you lose weight?
      - DanBC 11y ago
        You can look at Cochrane collaborations. These show that exercise alone doesn't do much for weight loss. Most people who exercise and who need to lose weight overestimate the calories they lose from exercise and underestimate the calories they get from food, and so they end up not doing enough exercise and then thinking they can have a food treat. Exercise is almost always a good idea. It just shouldn't be pushed as something primarily for weight loss.
babygoat 11y ago
> Also, the CDC has better epidemics to worry about than the obesity one. They can worry about more than one thing. > I frankly don't care if people want to be fat. No one cares that you don't care.
- duaneb 11y ago
  Peoples' diets are not the CDC's responsibility.
  - jacobolus 11y ago
    You are wrong. Here’s the CDC’s mission statement: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) serves as the national focus for developing and applying disease prevention and control, environmental health, and health promotion and health education activities designed to improve the health of the people of the United States. To accomplish its mission, CDC identifies and defines preventable health problems and maintains active surveillance of diseases through epidemiologic and laboratory investigations and data collection, analysis, and distribution; serves as the PHS lead agency in developing and implementing operational programs relating to environmental health problems, and conducts operational research aimed at developing and testing effective disease prevention, control, and health promotion programs; administers a national program to develop recommended occupational safety and health standards and to conduct research, training, and technical assistance to assure safe and healthful working conditions for every working person; develops and implements a program to sustain a strong national workforce in disease prevention and control; and conducts a national program for improving the performance of clinical laboratories. CDC is responsible for controlling the introduction and spread of infectious diseases, and provides consultation and assistance to other nations and international agencies to assist in improving their disease prevention and control, environmental health, and health promotion activities. CDC administers the Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant and specific preventive health categorical grant programs while providing program expertise and assistance in responding to Federal, State, local, and private organizations on matters related to disease prevention and control activities. http://www.cdc.gov/maso/pdf/cdcmiss.pdf http://www.cdc.gov/maso/pdf/cdcmiss.pdf Poor diets are clearly related to “preventable health problems”, and can be mitigated via “health promotion and health education activities”, etc. This falls under the CDC’s Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity, DNPAO. http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpao/division-information/aboutus/ http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpao/division-information/aboutu... Here’s the CDC’s nutrition webpage: http://www.cdc.gov/nutrition/ http://www.cdc.gov/nutrition/
cLeEOGPw 11y ago
Which epidemic is better than obesity?
davidf18 11y ago
> Also, the CDC has better epidemics to worry about than the obesity one. I frankly don't care if people want to be fat But you might worry that obesity and lack of exercise is a major portion of our health care costs which comes out of your pocketbook through higher taxes for Medicaid, Medicare, Federal, State, and City employee health care costs, retired military, .... Also, your health insurance costs are higher and if your employee pays for your health insurance then your employers health insurance payments are larger meaning less money for salaries.

sliverstorm 11y ago

The average human is advised to drink eight 8oz glasses of water each day. That's 182 gallons of water per year. Next time you go shopping, count out 182 1-gallon jugs of water. Each and every year. I understand the pitfalls of sugar. But I don't think these kinds of analysis by themselves really teach us anything.

coryl 11y ago
The visual analogy is more jarring: http://thefuturebuzz.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/sugar-content-of-soda.jpg http://thefuturebuzz.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/sugar-co...
- sliverstorm 11y ago
  The point is a visual analogy can be jarring without meaning anything at all. 182 gallons of water is a lot of water. It's very visually jarring. But so what? Just because it's a lot of water doesn't really mean anything.
  - coryl 11y ago
    The point is you know sugar is bad for you, so seeing an overwhelming volume of "toxic" material you consume is shocking. It doesn't work with water because you don't care about water.