On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Sridhar Ayengar
<ploopster at gmail.com>
wrote:
Chuck Guzis wrote:
>
> When Fry's... Jolt cola... bizarre chocolate-flavored diet soda
(Canfields)...
I swear by Bawls, and write a wide variety of languages on a daily basis.
Bawls is good, but at my local store, I've run into a variant I like
more - "Antarctica" Guarana soda from Brazil. It's stocked in the
International aisles at the grocery closest to my own house (a Giant
Eagle) and the store closest to a friend's house in Cleveland - so
it's not just us.
I had to swear off of all of this stuff. I drink plain unsweetened black
tea now.
At one point, I used to drink a lot of coke. I don't drink coffee, so I'd
stop at the clown and get a 32oz cup in the morning. Then I'd drink a can
around 10. Then maybe go to chilis for lunch and drink 2 or 3 of those 16oz
mugs, then another can later, then more for dinner. I added it all up and I
think and it was the equivalent of 13 cans of coke a day, iirc. Something
like 2000 calories and the equivalent of 196 sugar packets... every day. I
was 300lbs and couldn't climb a single flight of stairs without stopping to
take a break. I stopped drinking that stuff and went on a low carb diet. In
9 months I was 230lbs. Sometimes it sounds good to me and I'll get a can.
I can't get through the whole can without giving up. It grosses me out and
I'm cured for another 6 months.
High fructose corn syrup is evil. And I hear the phosphoric acid leaches
calcium from your bones.
brian