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I wonder when we'll finally realize how stupid we're and stop drinking liquid sugars including fruit juices, which often are worse than coke!
by nikolay 5y ago
I wonder when we'll finally realize how stupid we're and stop drinking liquid sugars including fruit juices, which often are worse than coke!
- papreclip 5y agoTo be fair, I haven't met anyone who drinks as much juice as soda drinkers drink soda
- chrisseaton 5y agoHuh yeah... you can see unhealthy people put away a 2 litre bottle of something like Coca-Cola without thinking twice, but that would seem like an obscene quantity of orange juice or something to almost anyone I think.
- InitialLastName 5y agoWhen I was a deeply unhealthy teenager (about the same time I was regularly going through a 30-pack of Coke in a week) I would frequently also drink a gallon jug of orange juice in a day. I still (decades later) have to keep an eye on myself around that stuff; all the variants of sugar-water are reserved for special occasions these days.
- bingidingi 5y agoTurns out people will drink more of something if you make it a little addictive. Hell, the drug of choice has changed but it's even baked into the name.
- handrous 5y agoYeah, a 32-oz juice isn't a fairly common "medium" size, and you don't usually get a juice (with free refills!) included in a combo meal
- catblast01 5y agoHeh, come to my primary care clinic, I’ll introduce you.
- pknerd 5y agoRead "Atomic Habits" by James Clear, I wonder how can we implement 4 laws to get rid of this bad habit.
- nikolay 5y agoThank you for the recommendation. It's surprising how easily we're getting manipulated by taste buds and old instincts and how often our brain function is out of the picture!
- bingidingi 5y agoToss a big warning from the Surgeon General on there. People are blind to it now, but when they first did it for cigarettes most people weren't aware of the severity of related health issues. We need a big "soda can make you obese and diabetic" campaign — we haven't even begun to approach the level of fervor that cut down on smoking... and we're fatter and unhealthier than ever. I generally agree that bans go too far, but I love publicly funded advocacy.
- nikolay 5y agoSimilarly to cigarettes, they need to show diabetics with amputated legs and blind ones. People always think diabetes is a benign condition, which is easy to manage. But tell them that many scientists call it "accelerated aging" today or that it can lead to cancer, and they will take it more seriously.
- 252452d 5y agoThat's horseshit. It would be so satisfying to physically humiliate every single person I see making these stupid claims. I am faster and stronger than you and I eat nothing but fruits and vegetables.