Poison?
I guess this one goes up on the list.
I wouldn’t exactly call soft drinks a health food, but they are far from poison. They are super high in sugar, so it’s very easy to overload in calories by drinking a lot of soda. But in moderation there’s nothing wrong with soft drinks. Heck, I’m diabetic and I can drink soda if I want. I just have to count it into my total carb/sugar budget for the day.
Yes it’s a bit acidic, but it’s nothing compared to the acids that are in your own stomach.
OK, ours must be a glass-top conventional electric cooktop then. Thanks.
Not that long ago distilled water was supposed to be good for you because it removed toxins from your body left by ordinary undistilled water. After distilling can water maintain the homeopathic memory of all the beneficial drugs that were once dissolved in it? Seems the medical community has a lot to get straightened out.
My 4th grade math teacher was an older woman who said many things that went straight over our heads. If you gave a correct answer after others were incorrect, she’d point to you and say, in an excited voice, “Now you’re cooking with gas”,
This was way before the internet, but I somehow looked up the phrase at the library, so I knew what she was talking about, but nobody else had a clue.
I think we are talking about eating in the early morning. Not assuming one will never eat again. Though technically you are correct, sir.
That ‘toxins’ are even a thing to worry about. You liver and kidneys and other organs have developed over millions of years to clean these things out of your body. Just drink water and take a shit regularly and they just do the rest.
If you don’t crap regularly, have it looked into. And the recent, what I call over-hydrating fad is not neccessary. Everyone carrying a water bottle with them at all times is silly, drink when you are thirsty, your body knows when water is needed. Monitor what your pee looks like, if it is dark, more water or you may have other issues, clear, you are over-hydrating.
And when you read people talking about ‘toxins’ you should just quit reading.
Regarding hydration; my wife is one of those people. She has a 2 or 3 liltre bottle that is always with her or on the coffee table. It has graduated marks on the side telling you, starting at the top: 7am Good Morning! 9am Do it for yourself! 11am Keep it going! 1pm Drink more! 3pm Tons of energy! 5pm No excuses. 7pm Allmost there! 9pm Yay! You did it!
I can accomplish the same thing with beer. At least she probably won’t get a kidney stone soon.
Don’t get me started on Smart Water because if you are drinking that or some vitamin water, you are not smart or getting vitamins.
Gluten isnt as bad as everyone believes. Not a great amount of people have celiac disease.
Heh. The usual explanation of why distilled water is bad is that it leeches out all of the minerals from your cells and kills you.
We need to get the people who think it leeches out the good stuff in the same room as the people who think it leeches out the bad stuff and let them fight it out.
True, testing confirmed celiac disease? The incidence of that in the US estimated to be about 1%. My beloved daughter is in that group.
All the rest of that gluten free dieting is woo. It’s this decade’s snake oil unless a physician has confirmed you have gluten sensitivity or intolerance.
It is fictitious in many cases, but confirming cases of gluten insensitivity is not always straightforward.
My wife can’t eat wheat. The doctors said it’s not celiac – just gluten sensitivity.
Politicians are less honest now than in the past.
This is clearly the case for the Fascism Party. There wasn’t one of those until recently.
Newspapers did more investigative journalism in the old days.
Speaking as a child of journalism, they sure the fuck did.
Schools used to really prepare kids for the world. Sadly, no.
You need eight large glasses of water a day. This has only been exploded very recently.
Generally it’s all woo, but medically, not entirely so. One can have an overall response to environmental toxins. One can have a generalized infection which affects whole systems in the body.
The acid and sugar in sodas are bad for your teeth, refined sugar is ‘empty calories’, and although not poison there’s nothing good for you in them either, except water.
I bet we have different definitions of when the “old days” were.
Those are never the “toxins” people are talking about.
Well, if 2011 is very recently… Actually, this cite refers to another from 2002.
In 2002, Heinz Valtin published a critique of the evidence in the American Journal of Physiology . He concluded that “Not only is there no scientific evidence that we need to drink that much, but the recommendation could be harmful, both in precipitating potentially dangerous hyponatremia and exposure to pollutants and also in making many people feel guilty for not drinking enough."
Yes, that’s recent, in my book. Takes a while for such things to spread. I mean how long did that “you’ll get stomach cramps and drown” thing persist with zero evidence?
So true.
My old days are the 1950’s through the 1980’s, before the corporate takeovers and the gutting of print media. Those are the days that people would be referring to, the days when most everyone got a morning or evening paper.