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The price of soda in 2017
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Random story: I saw a diabetic refuse to have his gangrenous "pinky toe" removed to save his life. Not even a foot, just the one smallest toe. I think about him sometimes.
I think it's been proven sugar is literally an addictive substance; it's hard to say no when it's not your rational mind in control. I have "pre"diabetes even though I never ate sugar; but I ate lots of other carbs and got unlucky. Rice and pasta and (non-American) bread every day sort of thing.
I come from an ethnicity of starvation and poverty, and there's growing research showing that diabetes actually used to be a protective adaptation. The idea is that, if you didn't have many carbs per day, just stretch out that 1 carrot for the whole day. It makes sense in that lens.
Then, overnight, society changed, and we're eating 30 carrots worth of carbs every day. Body didn't get the memo and makes those carbs last as long as possible, as it used to, but now it's a bad thing and causes high blood sugar.
A coworker at my previous work laughed when I said I'm addicted to sugar in the similar way he's addicted to cigarettes. Most people seem to be ignorant about it.
In a similar vein this is why island nations have the highest rate of obesity. Their metabolism adapted to scarcity. But some people want to convince everyone that it's as simple as calories-in-calories-out, as if every body works the same..
People should try a month of avoiding sugar. Most won't make it a day.
I used to get irritated at the "It's just as simple as ci;co" attitude on r/loseit. For a different reason though.
It's more than calories in, calories out. It's shopping, and prepping, and cooking, and cleaning, and more prepping, and dishes, and........
And having the spoons to do all of that consistently. ๐ฎโ๐จ