The Glade 4.0

Warning. This is an hour and a half long.

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Memento Vivere

I have local knowledge.
That sandbar was not there yesterday!

wow... normally I go with an immediate "Eff you!" to the people who say that fat people are victims.... but this guy is bringing up some good points.

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Darksiege
Traveller, Calé, Whisperer
Lead me not into temptation; for I know a shortcut

I'm currently 30 minutes in. I'm waiting for the revelation of why people are victims and not personally responsible.

So far, Coke has salt and sugar in it. High Fructose Corn Syrup is basically as bad as Sugar and both are bad for you in excess. I'm presuming the rest of it will be along these lines.

I dont think we can find anyone who doesnt know that soft drinks and heavy sugar isnt particularly healthy.

At this point he's trying to blame Nixon and I'm punching out.

FWIW, yeah you dont want to eat a lot of sugar or HFCS. But if you do, it's your own fault.

Edit to add: Didnt mean to come off harsh, so if I did dont take it that way. It's important to get this out there I just object to the victimization aspect of it. That usually leads bad places.

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“Strong people are harder to kill than weak people, and more useful in general”. - Mark Rippetoe

Dash, watch the rest of it. There is a very good explanation that even most experts did not figure out until recently.

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Memento Vivere

I have local knowledge.
That sandbar was not there yesterday!

His point was that fructose doesn't trigger the feelings of satiation so you can't actually know when you've had "too much" unless you're counting calories, and even that will not be accurate because everyone's metabolism is different.

HFCS also tells the body to store more of its intake as fat.

This information has been out for a few years now though so anyone who really cared at all about their diet would have already been aware.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

Thanks Squirrel Girl. That was amazingly informative and well done.