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tod
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response 21 of 67:
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Jul 11 17:24 UTC 2003 |
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glenda
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response 22 of 67:
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Jul 11 17:40 UTC 2003 |
Sugared pop by itself will not make you fat unless you drink a hell of a lot
of it. It is everything you eat and drink plus lifestyle, i.e. are you active
or not, that makes you fat. I am getting damned sick and tired of people
blaming one thing or another of causing overweight. It is everything
together, not just one thing. If I just cut out the Pepsi I drink I will not
loose weight unless I also cut out or down on the junk food, butter, etc. and
I start exercising more.
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tod
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response 23 of 67:
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Jul 11 17:46 UTC 2003 |
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furs
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response 24 of 67:
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Jul 11 18:49 UTC 2003 |
Depends on your definition of fat, but I've known a lot of people that
will stop drinking sugary drinks and drop 20 lbs fairly quickly.
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mynxcat
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response 25 of 67:
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Jul 11 19:01 UTC 2003 |
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mynxcat
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response 26 of 67:
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Jul 11 19:02 UTC 2003 |
It would depend on how much you were drinking in the first place. If
you wree drinking about one can a day, and stopped, I doubt you'd
notice a difference. However, if you were drinking say 10 cans a day,
and stopped, I'm pretty sure there would be a noticable drop in weight.
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jules
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response 27 of 67:
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Jul 11 19:28 UTC 2003 |
yes furs! lots of people i know who are overweight drink alot of mountain dew.
a good friend of mine was lamenting her weight last night as she sipped on
a dew. alot of people are choosing low carb diets these days, but which ever
healthy diet you do choose, i guarentee sugary pop isnt on it. straight
refined sugar being poured into your body causes a huge insulin response. it
just isnt good for you. sorry brooke, i gotta stay on my soap box. i love pop.
and i realize that if i want to keep my body health and desease free, as much
as i can do so within my own power, that drinking that shit is something i
just can not do! if im gonna splurge on some junk, id much rather have the
cheesecake or chocolate than waste the sugar and calories on a soda, no to
mention usually one orders the soda along with the cheesecake.
its bad bad stuff.
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flem
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response 28 of 67:
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Jul 11 19:29 UTC 2003 |
Right. That's why I prefer beer to pop these days. :)
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edina
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response 29 of 67:
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Jul 11 19:49 UTC 2003 |
I agree that soda is not the healthiest thing - even when I'm drinking
caffeine free diet soda, I have twinges of guilt, as it's not water. But it
is everything combined too.
As for being disease free, I stopped being so fascinated with good diet =
"disease free" when Linda McCartney died of breast cancer.
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dcat
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response 30 of 67:
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Jul 11 20:36 UTC 2003 |
depending on cash on hand, i drink btwn 1-4 (20 oz) bottles of pop a day,
usually Cherry Coke or Dr Pepper. As pretty much anyone who's met me can tell
you, I am not fat.
I walk the 30-45 minutes (one-way) to campus from home and back each day.
Even when I took the bus to WCC, there was still the walk to and from the bus
stops. . . . Giving up motorised transportation, esp. cars, will do a lot more
for your weight than giving up pop will.
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jules
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response 31 of 67:
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Jul 12 01:46 UTC 2003 |
you know, people get sick. sometimes really healthy people get cancer.
sometimes its just in the gene's. but i believe anything you can do to lesson
your odds of getting a desease is worthwhile. and lets talk diabetics....you
can give yourself this desease just by being overweight and eating a bunch
of crap.
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jaklumen
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response 32 of 67:
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Jul 12 04:14 UTC 2003 |
I hope we bring back something like item ate from the Spring Agora--
because it helped me a little to journal what I was eating. One of my
doctors said exercising really was good, but managing weight would be
very difficult if I didn't watch what I ate.
*chuckle* Brings back memories of discussions of oatmeal and stuff.
Yeah, drinking soda, I'm sure, doesn't help. But I'm sure eating out
doesn't help either. Most restaurant food seems just loaded with
calories-- and not all of it nutrient-rich. I'll admit it's hard
sometimes because I am lazy, sometimes in a rush, and fail to plan
meals. But I'm sure it will be worth it. Good food, in my
experience, makes me feel better.
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senna
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response 33 of 67:
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Jul 12 05:11 UTC 2003 |
I don't know that my Mountain Dew habit has been the worst part of my diet,
but I dislike being that dependent on caffeine and sugar in solution, so I've
tried to cut back as much as possible. The caffeine total is lower than
coffee, and I don't really take much sugar anywhere else in my diet, so I
guess I do alright.
What the sugar does to my teeth is probably my largest concern.
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jep
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response 34 of 67:
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Jul 12 05:14 UTC 2003 |
re resp:20: Have you ever noticed what fat people usually eat? They
eat diet food! Diet Coke, Ultra Slim Fast, salads... I shudder to
think what they're doing to their bodies. It hardly takes any of that
type of garbage to turn almost anyone fat, as I've found to my
sorrow. A salad now and then, a switch to Diet Coke, and I've gained
maybe 80 pounds in the last 10 years. I've never seen a skinny person
with an Ultra Slimfast in their hand.
I'm trying to eat healthier. I had a bacon cheeseburger from Wendy's
tonight. My company helped; they bought us all pizza for lunch
today. I backslid some; I had a diet Coke with the pizza. Even with
all the evidence about how bad that stuff is for you, I still lapsed
and had one. I'm only human. But with the weekend upon us, hopefully
I won't be around such bad influences, at least for a few days.
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scott
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response 35 of 67:
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Jul 12 06:15 UTC 2003 |
Re 30: Yeah, that's possible at your current age. By the time you get to
25 or 30 your metabolism will start shift from "child" to "adult" and all of
a sudden you'll find yourself 20 pounds heavier.
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keesan
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response 36 of 67:
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Jul 12 12:00 UTC 2003 |
My metabolism must have shifted in the opposite direction as I have been
losing weight since about age 25, after I stopped eating dorm food, which like
restaurant food is very greasy. I now weight about 25 pounds less.
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sj2
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response 37 of 67:
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Jul 12 19:35 UTC 2003 |
Didn't they test coke/pepsi somewhere by leaving a tooth in it?? And it
dissolved.
And a college campus, some kid drank 11 cokes and fainted due to excess
CO2 in his system??
Personally, i have chronic acidity and coke/pepsi/other carbonated
drinks make it worse.
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other
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response 38 of 67:
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Jul 12 19:52 UTC 2003 |
There's a carbonated drink named after me?
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senna
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response 39 of 67:
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Jul 13 01:40 UTC 2003 |
#35: I anticipate that happening around 30 or so for me, where my good
fortune on the body type front evaporates the same way it did for the other
members of my dad's family. All of them were sticks when I was young, and
there is a fair amount of gut and "baggage" floating around. Nothing
ridiculous, but it happened within my lifetime.
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jaklumen
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response 40 of 67:
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Jul 13 05:38 UTC 2003 |
resp:34 you'll get thinner by eating soup (homemade or otherwise) than
eating most salads. The dressing, I'd imagine, is the kicker. (Oil
and vinegar instead?) Caesar salads seem to be the worst, and I can't
imagine Cobb or some chef salads being trimming, either.
...but I have taken a liking to spinach greens with mandarin oranges
topped with plain sliced almonds and raspberry vinagrette.
resp:37 Those sound like urban legends.
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scott
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response 41 of 67:
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Jul 13 05:48 UTC 2003 |
Re 38: You don't remember the big "Coke Other" campaign 4-5 years ago? It
was sort of a transparent green, and the commercials featured Carrothead.
Pretty much killed his career, as I recall.
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keesan
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response 42 of 67:
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Jul 13 12:37 UTC 2003 |
My brother eats a lot in restaurants and he does not like vegetables. He has
a paunch. So weight is not just genetic. Eating soup fills up your stomach,
which for some people means that they will eat less after that.
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gull
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response 43 of 67:
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Jul 14 15:34 UTC 2003 |
I figure weight gain or loss is all about how many calories you eat compared
to how many you burn. Whenever you hear one category of food declared to be
"evil" and the cause of weight gain, a few years later they're saying
something else, so I tend to think it's best to avoid fad diets like Atkins.
That doesn't exonerate soda, because it has a lot of calories, but it
doesn't make it worse than any other high-calorie food.
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keesan
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response 44 of 67:
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Jul 14 16:41 UTC 2003 |
Milk (unskimmed) is also high calorie and soda is much less nutritious. I
think they are about the same calories per cup - 120 for milk. Meat is very
high calorie.
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slynne
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response 45 of 67:
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Jul 14 17:18 UTC 2003 |
I have read that the reason the Atkins diet works is because people who
are on it eat fewer calories. And one theory about that is that fat and
protein keep a person from feeling hungry longer than simple carbs. I
have also heard that an Atkins like diet that allows whole grains is
just as effective. Of course, I dont have any personal experience with
either of those diets.
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