Why are they lying about food ?

[Blaster395]

Diet soda's are, for all dietary purposes, identical to water. The only group that would experience ill effects from drinking them would be people with an extremely rare condition that causes one of the amino acid breakdown products of aspartame to be poisonous, a condition screened at birth in 1st world countries and which prevents you from eating tons of stuff, not just aspartame. Non-dietary reasons to not consume it would be the acidity and it's effect on your teeth.

Could you expand on this a bit? When I started to diet I cut out all sodas for a year and noticed a huge decline in overall bloated look. I don't know what is is about sodas but when I cut them out for awhile I tend to slim down a bit without actually losing weight.

Were you previously drinking non-diet sodas before cutting out all sodas? If so, then yes, that's obviously a major effect because it reduces calories.

Non-diet soda -> diet soda = reduction in calories

Non-diet soda -> water = reduction in calories

diet soda -> water = no change

 

[DugMachine]

Diet soda's are, for all dietary purposes, identical to water. The only group that would experience ill effects from drinking them would be people with an extremely rare condition that causes one of the amino acid breakdown products of aspartame to be poisonous, a condition screened at birth in 1st world countries and which prevents you from eating tons of stuff, not just aspartame. Non-dietary reasons to not consume it would be the acidity and it's effect on your teeth.

Could you expand on this a bit? When I started to diet I cut out all sodas for a year and noticed a huge decline in overall bloated look. I don't know what is is about sodas but when I cut them out for awhile I tend to slim down a bit without actually losing weight.

Were you previously drinking non-diet sodas before cutting out all sodas? If so, then yes, that's obviously a major effect because it reduces calories.

Non-diet soda -> diet soda = reduction in calories

Non-diet soda -> water = reduction in calories

diet soda -> water = no change

I was drinking only diet sodas for a few years and then when I cut out diet sodas I seemed to slim down. The weight loss didn't come from not drinking diet soda but I just seemed less bloated. I've read somewhere long ago that sodas, even diet, make you retain water or something.

I'm no diet expert so I don't know exactly.

 

[Jarsh82]

Real honey is white and waxy

 

[Jarsh82]

Cutting diet soda has been shown in studies to reduce weight in the long term. People who drink soda, diet or otherwise have a tendency to crave other sweet foods. Your training your body to want sugar.

 

[Guitarmasterx7]

I laughed out loud at this just because even though I know what you mean the phrasing gave me a hilarious mental image.

Are all "honey" products that are being sold in other countries like that ? Syrups that look like honey but are actually made by humans instead of bees ?

Apparently a lot of american products are imitations of what they say they are because we have way too much fucking corn so we try to corn-ify everything. It's actually contributed to our national health problems quite a bit.

 

[Zuljeet]

In the US: The label on the front can say anything. The ingredient list cannot. Read the ingredients and you will know what you are getting into.

 

[Gatx]

We are living in a world where the United States got the government to state that "Pizza" is a vegetable.

Something made entirely out of cheese, wheat and bacon can be called a "vegetable". I wouldn't trust the ingredients list when that's a standard of classification.

What Congress actually allowed was for tomato sauce, like the kind used in pizza, to be counted as a vegetable when it came to school lunches. Obviously it's still a bad thing because it was done in order to side step new requirements for healthier school lunches but the action itself is not as mindblowingly stupid as headlines make it sound.

 

[Abomination]

We are living in a world where the United States got the government to state that "Pizza" is a vegetable.

Something made entirely out of cheese, wheat and bacon can be called a "vegetable". I wouldn't trust the ingredients list when that's a standard of classification.

What Congress actually allowed was for tomato sauce, like the kind used in pizza, to be counted as a vegetable when it came to school lunches. Obviously it's still a bad thing because it was done in order to side step new requirements for healthier school lunches but the action itself is not as mindblowingly stupid as headlines make it sound.

Yes it is because tomato isn't even a fucking vegetable, it's a fruit!