Still want some soda???

Oh, and to the OP...I will definitely start checking ingredients lists for HFCS. Too be honest, I know it's bad for you but never really checked for it.

that's why i don't drink anything diet.. i saw on the dr's yesterday about diet soda and ICK..... glad i have never gotten into that addiction. I will however drink a regular soda but it's in moderation....

AMEN, sista! Preach it!

I wouldn't touch that shiite with a ten-foot pole..............but, to each his/her own

Oh, and we call it POP in Northern Minnesota :bigsmile: :bigsmile:

But hfcs is just sugar with a different makeup and a bad rep. Personally I try to stay away from any foods made with sugar because, for the most part, they're processed and I can't justify the cost (here in Australia it's far more expensive to eat processed food than fresh).

I'd never advocate eating McCrap more than once a week or so and I certainly can't understand guzzling litres of soft drink daily, but the occasional Coke, as long as it fits into your calories, isn't going to see your insides melting into a big pile of pink goo. By all means, avoid hfcs and sugar and honey, and concentrated fruit juice and brown rice syrup and all the sugar alcohols and agave syrup and by god there are loads more but buggered if I can think of all the names we have for what is essentially sugar, but there's nothing wrong with including a small amount of the evil stuff in your diet.

I have nothing against diet soda. I drink diet coke, so I can eat regular cake.

Hahaha, Gabriel much?

But hfcs is just sugar with a different makeup and a bad rep. Personally I try to stay away from any foods made with sugar because, for the most part, they're processed and I can't justify the cost (here in Australia it's far more expensive to eat processed food than fresh).

I'd never advocate eating McCrap more than once a week or so and I certainly can't understand guzzling litres of soft drink daily, but the occasional Coke, as long as it fits into your calories, isn't going to see your insides melting into a big pile of pink goo. By all means, avoid hfcs and sugar and honey, and concentrated fruit juice and brown rice syrup and all the sugar alcohols and agave syrup and by god there are loads more but buggered if I can think of all the names we have for what is essentially sugar, but there's nothing wrong with including a small amount of the evil stuff in your diet.

Right, although most days I have 1/2 tablespoons of honey to sweeten my Plain Greek Yogurt along with fruit.

I'm not saying that HFCS is the devil... just that these stacks freaked me out.

Embrace the honey! It's delicious. For freaking you out... I say go and visit the meat patties prior to cooking. It didn't stop me enjoying a Quarter Pounder every now and then, but the uniform size and shape, and the smoothness of the surface of each patty... I don't know. That's some weird meat.

I like aspartame.

I never thought I'd be able to kick my soda habit, but I'm going 3 months strong :-) I drink mainly water, occasionally add the flavoring packets at dinner time usually. Every once in a while I'll buy a case of the Lipton Green Tea but that's about all I drink these days :-) I haven't seen a noticeable weight loss w/ cutting out the soda, but I was a Diet Pepsi drinker, so I dunno if I would see a difference since it was diet and had no calories? But I sure feel a lot better w/o the nasty chemicals inside that little can. :-)

Thanks. Don't touch the stuff very often unless it's the only thing in the house.
Shocking that everyone thinks this stuff is safe. Hfcs contains lead because of the cooking process. Aspartame is not a sweetener anyone needs. It has actually caused people to go blind and brings on brain splitting migraines.

www.mercola.com

use search feature just type in both and see some real research and what these poisons really are. Educate yourself with the truth so you can make good decisions.

While you're there type in Vaccines and learn some shocking eye opening truth about those.

But hfcs is just sugar with a different makeup and a bad rep. Personally I try to stay away from any foods made with sugar because, for the most part, they're processed and I can't justify the cost (here in Australia it's far more expensive to eat processed food than fresh).

I'd never advocate eating McCrap more than once a week or so and I certainly can't understand guzzling litres of soft drink daily, but the occasional Coke, as long as it fits into your calories, isn't going to see your insides melting into a big pile of pink goo. By all means, avoid hfcs and sugar and honey, and concentrated fruit juice and brown rice syrup and all the sugar alcohols and agave syrup and by god there are loads more but buggered if I can think of all the names we have for what is essentially sugar, but there's nothing wrong with including a small amount of the evil stuff in your diet.

Right, although most days I have 1/2 tablespoons of honey to sweeten my Plain Greek Yogurt along with fruit.

I'm not saying that HFCS is the devil... just that these stacks freaked me out.

Embrace the honey! It's delicious. For freaking you out... I say go and visit the meat patties prior to cooking. It didn't stop me enjoying a Quarter Pounder every now and then, but the uniform size and shape, and the smoothness of the surface of each patty... I don't know. That's some weird meat.

I've been working in fast food for the past almost 7 years... yeah the meat is weird... The way it gets stacked and fed through the broiler and BK is even weirder... So was the microwave bacon before they got the thick stuff they use now that they bake in the oven... Ever seen a bucket filled with congealed fat? Every single day... the stuff that they pour off the pans of meat after they're cooked :sick:

Oh and the mayo "guns" at McDonald's... the stuff that would congeal around the outside :sick:

Seven years? I solute your fortitude! I must be blotting out painful memories as all that comes to mind from my McDonalds stint is the shiny, shiny meat and the obsession one manager had with cleaning out the chip warmer. She was an odd one. I don't think we do oven or microwave bacon here. It's just rashers of fried shortcut. Pretty darn tasty.

Still, I see why you're not too impressed with the cases of hfcs and sweetener. Seven years in the industry would make anyone a bit suspicious of the food.

Thanks. Don't touch the stuff very often unless it's the only thing in the house.
Shocking that everyone thinks this stuff is safe. Hfcs contains lead because of the cooking process. Aspartame is not a sweetener anyone needs. It has actually caused people to go blind and brings on brain splitting migraines.

www.mercola.com

use search feature just type in both and see some real research and what these poisons really are. Educate yourself with the truth so you can make good decisions.

While you're there type in Vaccines and learn some shocking eye opening truth about those.

The truth about vaccines? You mean that whole families are no longer wiped out by smallpox and we've managed to prevent polio epidemics in much of the world? Mercola is a sleaze who preys on the gullible and easily scared in order to flog his unproven and overpriced supplements. Wtf is it with members here and that snakeoil salesman?

Or the fact that families that have decided to abstain from vaccines have been causing outbreaks?

Ugh, gosh I hate the selfish parents who think that the minuscule risk of vaccines (it's practically nonexistent) is worth risking the health of children and adults who rely on herd immunity because their own immunity has been compromised (chemo, for example), or they genuinely cannot be vaccinated or are too young to have received all their shots. It's utterly immoral for these people to rank the lives of society's most vulnerable below their precious darlings having a fever and a bit of a tantrum thanks to the mmr.