Fat Tax people, its brilliant!

Thanks Jaguar, I was going to say something similar, but my hatred of diet products is borderline fanatical.  I would have said something more along the lines of "DIET SODA WILL KILL YOU" and left it at that.  I can't believe how blindly people swallow the stuff.

Soda in general is just BAD.  It needs to be treated like a dessert item, at minimum; I get a craving every now and then, but if possible I stave it off with a Perrier or a glass of added-sugarless juice (NO SWEETENERS!).  (Although I also get fanatical about pulp-free orange juice.  It's just not natural, I'm telling you.)

And I'm not a health nut, whatsoever…but this stuff is serious chemical warfare on your body, diet or not.

Venerable wrote:
as long as you aren't guzzling down 6 of them a day, i don't really think there is that much of a difference on the body between diet and regular

there is a difference - it's about 200 calories per 16 oz drink.  that's an easy 400 to 600 calories a day right there. the pounds are sure to follow.

i remember reading a study which noted that kids don't get satiated by soda - they will eat as much food with it as without.  the calories from the soda do nothing to satisfy kids, and thus kids could cut their caloric intake - without noticing it - by simply cutting out the sugar bubbles.

Julian, wrote:
I want a flat fat-tax, none of this soda nonsense. Everyone gets on a scale at a government office and every pound over 105 for women and 165 for men is a $250 liability. We'd become the greatest civilization on earth.

i want you to come try to collect my taxes. 

sweetcell wrote:

Venerable wrote:
as long as you aren't guzzling down 6 of them a day, i don't really think there is that much of a difference on the body between diet and regular

there is a difference - it's about 200 calories per 16 oz drink.  that's an easy 400 to 600 calories a day right there. the pounds are sure to follow.

i remember reading a study which noted that kids don't get satiated by soda - they will eat as much food with it as without.  the calories from the soda do nothing to satisfy kids, and thus kids could cut their caloric intake - without noticing it - by simply cutting out the sugar bubbles.

right, soda is simply empty calories. . .but it's the effect of sugar in the soda and the artificial sweetener in the diet soda on the body that i'm pointing out.  thinking that diet soda is ok because there isn't any calories fails to take into account the potential for other problems resulting from the artificial sweetener.  but, like i said, if we're only talking about 1 can a day, i don't think it's a big deal either way….

we just have different priorities. . .i can live with the extra 140 calories i get from a can of regular coke (and, reluctantly, the corn syrup), instead of consuming some sweetener made in the lab that may or may not cause other problems, not to mention the difference in taste.  it's also why i refuse to use margarine. . .but i think we already had that conversation….

samantha. . .sorry, but i am a pulp free oj kind of guy. . .when i get to the bottom of my glass, i don't want that mush of pulp to be my final taste.

vansmack wrote:
Yeah, but he's 19.  Lets see how he holds up when he's almost 35.

I dunno I'm pretty scrawny too and I'm older than 35…

soda makes you feel young again, thereby making it a-ok.  and five keeps the neighborhood alive.

You're an idiot. 165 for a man and 105 for a woman are not equivalent. If my wife weighed 105, she'd be dead.

Julian, wrote:
I want a flat fat-tax, none of this soda nonsense. Everyone gets on a scale at a government office and every pound over 105 for women and 165 for men is a $250 liability. We'd become the greatest civilization on earth.

i just want to apologize if i made it seem to anyone that i was extremely passionate on this taxing soda issue. I just thought it was an interesting article.

  I know they tax lots of stuff these days that are "bad for you" and I sometimes muse at the extremely overweight person who tells me that smoking is bad for me.

 

vansmack wrote:
Lame idea.  I'm pretty sure I'm the skinniest guy on this board and I've never touched a diet soda, mostly because I've never had to and it tastes like crap.

Now tie it to a scale or BMI and I'll sign on.

How did Vansmack know that diet soda tastes like crap if he's never had it?

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There's some good content in this here thread.

Yada wrote:
There&#039;s some good content in this here thread.

Thatguy ftw.