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Reply With QuoteDrink water, water with lime, water with lemon avoid too many fruit juices they're sugary as heck.
Diet sodas are also salty. Some salt is fine, too much salt causes dehydration which many people misread as hunger so they eat more.
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Originally Posted by Traveler
I was so happy with that post and the babbling nonsense of "diet" products, and then you said we should all be drinking water.I used to feel that way. I'd look for anything other than water to drink and was convinced that whatever it was was better for quenching my thirst.
Then I went through 6 weeks of desert training out north of Vegas.
We didn't have anything to drink but water and it was always pretty much air temperature....about 110°F. I'd sometimes drink 3 gallons a day and only have to pee once.
My first stop after getting back to civilization was for a tall, frosty adult beverage. I swear I couldn't get that first beer down until after I had a glass of water. That was probably 20 years ago and to this day I still drink about a gallon of water a day. I prefer iced tea and I'll suck down a diet Mt Dew from time to time but I don't keep sodas in the office or at home.
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Drink water, water with lime, water with lemon avoid too many fruit juices they're sugary as heck.
Diet sodas are also salty. Some salt is fine, too much salt causes dehydration which many people misread as hunger so they eat more.
President
Beer
Secretary of State
Blood
Secretary of State
I'll go with hairballxavier's suggestion between these two, thanks.
- Frustrated Independent
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin
"Every time something really bad happens, people cry out for safety, and the government answers by taking rights away from good people.” - Penn Jillette amazingly enough, and I agree.
Secretary of State
Oddly, the Army survival field manual states that you shouldn't drink blood.
The reason?
Blood is food.
All good socialists have villas in Southern France. That's not the point.
-Eurosocialist
Secretary of State
You're pulling my leg.
Secretary of State
You can put some nutrasweet in it if you want.
Joint Chiefs of Staff Member
One diet says that the liver can process fats and chemicals. It says that artificial sweetener chemicals, along with high fructose corn syrup and artificial colors overburden the liver and slow down fat processing. I'm more inclined to believe the Big Mac meal with a Diet Coke phenomenon. I saw a study where people who limited themselves to 1200 calories a day of doughnuts and pizza lost the same weight as those with a 1200 calories a day diet of veggies, fruit, and lean meats. Weight loss is all about the calories, and what you eat doesn't affect where your body wants to store the extra fat. That's genetics.
Having said that, I'm sure that unnatural chemicals are not good for you and have always been against diet sodas, artificial sweeteners, and butter substitutes.
"The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." - Margaret Thatcher
Secretary of State
In the 'water procurement' section, they have a list of things not to use as a substitute for water. "Blood: is salty and considered a food..."
U.S. Army Survival Manual FM 21-76 - EQUIPPED TO SURVIVE (tm)
It's the one thing that I remembered from reading it.
All good socialists have villas in Southern France. That's not the point.
-Eurosocialist
Secretary of State
Alright, then. Drink some blood and eat some watermelon. Or have a beer.
President
You at least have the last part 100 %
The preceding is mostly correct, just missing a few very minor details.
President
Sounds like the way to go.
With pizza
County Executive
No, he is not...
Secretary of Defense
They aren't wrong. Lifestyle, diet, etc have a HUGE effect on disease, and the bodies ability to fight it off. I know several people whose diet consists 90% of raw vegetables, and drink nothing but water. They are the healthiest fuckers I know. Every little bug passes right by them while the rest of us are staying home puking and shitting, or unable to breathe through the phlegm clogging our airways.
I understand not wanting to endure the sacrifice to live that kind of lifestyle, I certainly dont either... but I'm not foolish enough to dismiss it's benefits either.
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