I stopped drinking soda. I talked to a colleague last week. He said artificial sweeteners in general have a higher risk of cancer. So I did my own research and found this to not only be true, but drinking sugared sodas also carries a risk. WTF?! Somebody else pointed out that "everything" causes cancer these days. But I don't want the sugar and I don't want my body producing methanol and then formaldehyde.

This week I am doing coffee and water only. I got some nice fresh bottled water and added some lemon juice to the water. Then I proceeded to drink the water. At first I was WTF is wrong with my water!? Then I realized I had put lemon juice in there.

Lobbyism.

The sugar industry is like the tobacco industry.... Like many other industries, consumption is more important than health.

Cancer... Is an obvious statistical risk - artificial sweeteners have other risks, but the industry doesn't give a fuck.

Bowel obstruction, insulin production, ... Tons of things.

Going in a regular supermarket, you should cross all processed food, have an Geiger counter and best an laboratory for chemical testing.

Don't believe me?

Think about e.g. chernobyl in Europe. A few days later - lot of people were worried.

Nowadays... Oh. Mushrooms from Poland / Belarussia / Hungary / ... Great.

Contamination of soil... Don't get me started.

Pesticides...

Statiscally higher incidents of multiresistant bacteria incidents near agricultural economy... Naaaah. Completely irrelevant.

If this sounds like rock off the charts tin foil material for you.... Don't check the EU vs US vs other countries list of forbidden chemicals.

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Yay. It's just food. We consume it only daily. No biggy.

Artificial sweeteners can also increase weight gain. Messes with your body's interpretation of sweetness, makes you less likely to limit because you've had enough calories. Does it at a subconscious level. Used to be gym instructor and stuff.

@IntrusionCM I find myself living in tinfoil land these days. Found out a while back that almost everyone is boron deficient. One nearly pure source is sodium borate. However some countries have banned its use for food. Yet the highest priced caviar is packed in it for preservation. Boron deficiency in the body is associated with arthitus. Guess who lobbied to get sodium borate banned for food? Pain reliever companies. They allow one poison (massive sugar) and try to say another healthy thing is poison so they can sell elixir to the lemmings.

@Demolishun Almost everyone... That sounds way too much.

Although not impossible - statistics for dietary are based on average consumption which is heavily dependent on the country.

Boron deficiency is near to impossible when vegetables and fruits are involved in a diet. You really have to have an completely fucked up diet to have a deficiency or live in a country where the necessary daily UV light is too low… like e.g. Finland / Sweden with the long dark winters.

I don't like soda, but I make fruit smoothies pretty much every morning now. I add a little apple juice to them, and the box doesn't mention any added sugar or preservatives (its just pasteurized). I highly recommend this, no soda beats this imo, and you can mix your own fruits in it and make your own tastes

Artificial sweeteners can also increase weight gain. Messes with your body's interpretation of sweetness, makes you less likely to limit because you've had enough calories. Does it at a subconscious level. Used to be gym instructor and stuff.

Almost everyone is deficient in iodine and vitamin D, and I think B12 too?

Anyway, sugar is the devil. It’s sweet and tasty, apparently as addictive as cocaine, and has so many negative health effects. You’ll notice a definite improvement in your health and mental clarity after cutting sugar, at least after breaking through the withdrawal symptoms. Might take a few weeks, and they might be miserable depending on how addicted you are.

For sugar substitutes, look into allulose: it tastes and behaves exactly like sugar (even carmelizes) and also dampens blood sugar spikes from sugar.

Also: food in the US is filled with preservatives and nasty chemicals: TBHQ, DATEM, BHT, sodium erythroborate, MSG, etc. Some of these (especially MSG) are hidden behind ingredients like spices, flavoring, natural flavoring, yeast extract, etc.

Furthermore, a lot of pre-made foods are contaminated with glyphosate (roundup) because it’s sprayed everywhere and doesn’t break down. Much of the wheat crop is harvested by spraying the crap out of it with roundup so the plant dies more quickly. But since it doesn’t break down, it’s found its way into the water supply, and even rainwater. Difficult to avoid, but worthwhile as it works by bonding with nutrients in plants/insects/animals/humans.

Also: avoid anything from china like the plague. Especially food. They have scant few health rules, and actively ship products contaminated with e.g. plastic, lead, formaldehyde. Apparently they even produce and export fake rice made out of potatoes and plastic. Yum. They apparently also ship cabbage coated in formaldehyde so it doesn’t need refrigeration. Yum yum. It’s worth looking into who owns companies you buy food from, because apparently they own a lot of them, like Green Giant.

Pasture-raised meats also contain higher levels of vitamins, and a better omega 3/6 ratio. Pork, for example, contains like 1200%DV of vitamin D; when raised inside, it contains next to zero.

If you ever see someone walking around looking like a bowling ball (you know the type: round, firm, and heavy) it’s mostly because of hydrogenated fats. They’re designed to be solid at room temperature. Your body stores these fats, and since they don’t quite behave like normal fats, it has a very difficult time breaking them down, resulting in a buildup of fats that are solid at room (and body) temperature. The result: bowling ball syndrome. Fat should jiggle like a bowl full of jelly, not like a bowling ball.

As for carbs: you need some, even on a ketogenic diet. Carbs are good for you in moderation. Don’t cut them completely. But carbs are typically very empty calories, and they also increase your appetite (and make it return more quickly) so you eat excessively, and it doesn’t feel excessive because you’re still hungry.

Another bit:
Most oils (and flour!) are rancid. Oils only last a month or so after being pressed before they spoil, yet sit in warehouses for months, and then on shelves for longer still. Flour goes rancid within days of being ground, so conceivably the flour in all of the bread you have ever eaten has been bad. I’m not encouraging you to get a flour mill and grind your own wheat berries (which apparently last for years), but you can.(We do! And yes, the fresh flour is noticeably much better.) But for oils: several of the oils used commercially (e.g. cottonseed) aren’t even from food crops. And to continue: apparently a lot of olive oil is actually fake: it’s 80-90% canola oil mixed with 10-20% olive oil for flavor. And remember, this also goes bad within a month of being pressed.

I can go on and on about the quality of food here in the US (and china; fake rice? Fake eggs? Wtf?).

The takeaway: eat organic, avoid sugars and reduce carbs, research where your food comes from, and what your food eats. If your food ate crap, it’s also crap. And this extends to you. Crap food makes you unhealthy.

@Root

"Fat should jiggle like a bowl full of jelly"

How many people are jingling their guts right now to make sure they are not a bowling ball. At least 1...

@Demolishun 😅