I do like the occasional (and I do mean occasional) Dr. Pepper or 7 UP (if I have the flu) But don't really grasp how people can make the conscious decision to drink more than a can of soda in a day...let alone multiple cans/cups EVERY single day.
So many people are sugar addicts. One of my friends goes on sugar binges where he will buy a box of sweet rolls and just live on that stuff all day or go through three quarts of ice cream in a week. He thinks this is a normal sort of diet. We share a place and he frequently does this but to counteract this he will buy some healthy vegetables and prepared salads. Then he lets the stuff sit in the fridge and rot. Sometimes he will try to "share" with me but long after the stuff has gone off. I tried making a few healthy meals but then he complained it was too spicy. So I made a meal that to me was bland thinking I can add some chili when I eat my share but then he will have a quart of ice cream before eating and say he's not hungry. I finally just gave up and only cook for myself.
Healthy food he buys sits and rots while his sweet stuff get's eaten. He's got a cupboard of high protein drinks 'cause he intends on losing weight and getting in shape but then, never seems to follow through.
I go through the checkout in the stores and I see the same behavior in other people. Carts loaded with sweet stuff, pies, sodas and other junk and then some greasy potato chips to balance it all out.
It's no wonder our nation is full of overweight and unhealthy people.
No, I understand addiction quite well (and know that processed sugars are more addictive than pure cocaine).
I get that, my question is why do people consistently and KNOWINGLY put these poisons into their bodies at such great volume before they become addicted ?
I have 5 or 6 sodas in a year. Maybe fewer as I've gotten older, as I make a conscious effort to have a diet of actual foods. It's not anymore expensive and I know what goes into my body.
Are people so conditioned that they no longer see themselves as human beings ?
People seem so fucking lost and angry and calloused that it boggles my mind into understanding how they can't time figuring out what the actual problem is.
Are people so conditioned that they no longer see themselves as human beings ?
The problem is that people don't see themselves as animals. Would you pour a can of Coke into your dog's bowl? Hell no.
I'm just going on what my observations are. I've told my friend what he is doing to his health and he gets it, or says he does but he can't seem to connect his actions to reality. It's like he puts on a show to impress me with what he's learned but he gets to the store and comes back with total crap. He makes excuses trying to say he doesn't do it that often but the reality is totally opposite.
He prefers to go to a fast food venue to get food any time he gets hungry for something real and uses coupons. Well, then he's getting very poor value for his money and it's crap tasting food to begin with. Taco Bell, Arby's, etc. It's almost like he lives in a fog of make believe and I'm guessing that's what most people are doing.
Many reasons. It is normalized. I remember a decade ago when taco bell advertised 24 hour drive through and made referencing to inventing yet another meal time to our arsenal.
Social factors: People use food as tools of compliance, reject their food and they get offended. It gets even worse when they tie food to culture, then all of a sudden by eating responsibly you are genociding your heritage.
We are in that smoking/drinking phase where we know the stuff ingested is poison and we do it anyway knowing full well of the ramifications.
I would argue there is less urgency to call out this nonsense which is why people gleefully do it irrespective of the consequences.
It is hard to call it out without being cancelled.
Another big point I would make is people have no cause-and-effect understanding when it comes to the relationship between sugar and every problem it causes. They will decry their obesity, their lack of energy, their increased disease rate, their anxiety, their insomnia, their depression, while ignoring sugar as a possible culprit.
Even looking at the DSM 5 for substance abuse shows significant overlaps with sugar addiction but people just cannot make the connection.
and know that processed sugars are more addictive than pure cocaine
Having tried both cocaine and sugar, have to say my eyes grow weary of reading this kind of statement. Not true in any stretch of the imagination. People don't turn violent after a few hits of sugar and suddenly being cut-off. I've seen some shit back in the day.
Ginger ale shits all over 7-Up for stomach comfort.
I enjoyed it in my youth. Now it's far to carbonated and every one of them seem to be owned by coca-cola anyways.
They damn near ruined 7up, it used to be marketed as the "un cola" because its lack of added sugar.
I'm not sure when but I had some last year for an upset stomach, damn was I not expecting how sweet its become.
Honestly, I never loved 7 UP Bubble Up. But those days are long long gone. It's just the carbonation and light citrus taste that helps with that nauseous feeling.
Same here, my family drank it for the fizz and because it wasn't loaded with sugar. Now I buy my elderly mother the mini six packs of ginger ale.
I'm fighting an energy drink addition right now, but even then I do not understand how people drink a whole 2 litter in one day. I've already promised myself that I was going to hit the gym hard this year. Now that my local ones are finally open again.
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