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zanAspera

Yeah,Here is a hint, if it's NOT made of chemicals, it will kill you a lot faster than if it is! Chemicals are anything composed of matter on the periodic table....

Stuff that is chemicals:
Water, Oxygen, rocks, and anything that is or has ever been alive.

Stuff that isn't made of chemicals:
Electricity, Plasma, Light, Laser beams and all other forms of electromagnetic radiation.

Unless you can meet your caloric needs with electricity (a stream of electrons) or Electromagnetic radiation. I serious think you should reconsider your "Chemicals are bad" paradigm...

And in case you were planning to fall back to 'All Natural'... Here is a list of things that are All Natural...
Crude Oil, Sulfuric Acid, Hydrocloric Acid, E Coli, Cyanide, Arsenic, Strychnine, Botulism...

Many things we eat normally and have no problems with are poisonus if too much of it is eaten at once, or over a lifetime. We eat some food, like any sort of spice, because they are mildly poisonous, but when you eat them in small enough quanitiies, your body adapts and learns to cope with such toxins, creating higher tolerance and increasing the body's over all adaptability and disease resistance.

I'm just pointing out that all blanket statements are false, (including this one). And Everyone is different (this one too.)
The power of MyFitnesspal is to track what things you eat and your weight so you can see what works for you and what doesn't. If you are feeling good and losing fat mass drinking diet sodas, then where is the harm? If artificial sugars make you crave more sweets, then you know what to do if you want to lose the weight.

If you are telling someone else not to do something, because you don't approve or you heard something... Then you are telling other people what do do without knowing what is best for their particular situation, you are being bossy and you are flat out wrong. Perhaps you honestly want to help, but don't want to admit you don't know everything. It's okay, you actually start sounding smarter when you say what you do know, how you know it and what you don't know but would love to learn. Perhaps you just want to sound smart, and authoritative. Perhaps you are also jerk. :P

If you are suggesting that someone might want to avoid something, because it does something bad in some other people, that's good, you are sharing information that could help someone. Keep an ear open that other people have competing evidence, And when that evidence consists of formal scientific studies researched on long established sources, try not to be arrogant in your belief that what you heard some one say once should have the same weigh.

If you are taking the most credible advice from several sources, particularly weighing scientific controlled studies of large number of people. measuring specific health effects over time balanced against your own personal experience, then don't let anyone tell you something is bad because it contains "chemicals" or something is good because it's "all-natural" or "organic". Because such things are giant oversimplifications and you are smart enough for more nuanced analysis.

Don't let others think for you or tell you want to do.... Not even me! It's your body, your life. Be a scientist and experiment. Use MFP to track what happens to your body when you add or remove different things from your menu. And please don't be telling other people what to do or what they should do.


Thanks,

Aspera