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Originally Posted by WhiteWhale
Yeah... obviously I do agree with you here. I have no problem with increasing real education.
Diet Soda is a TERRIBLE example! That is simply an example of people who are willfully ignorant and use it as an excuse. There is no shortage of information on how bad that shit is if you spend 2 seconds looking it up in an era where everything is a goddamn google click away. Substitute processed foods, in their entirety, are terrible for you. That includes butter substitutes as well.
I mean I didn't think you were talking about stuff people could easily figure out on their own. Hell man, ignorance isn't an excuse for stupidity. All soda is poison anyway. That's not hard to discover. It should have a warning label on it.
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I don't think it's a terrible example. You really, really, really have to pay attention to know what you're eating. If you stop drinking soda, you go to diet soda under the illusion that less calories is better. If you stop drinking that, you drink juice or soda (even Minute Orange Juice) only to learn that it's loaded with sugar. Same with milk. No? What about Vitamin Water. Surely water infused with vitamins can't be bad for you.
If you don't know how to cook, well then you're ****ed. You stop eating fast food, so you go to Panera and don't realize that that lean sandwich is bombarded with bread oozing with greasy butter. Or you go to buy some whole wheat bread and don't realize there are a gazillion additives to make it taste a little better. See where I'm going?
I don't eat like shit. But maybe 5 years ago, I paid attention to my nutrition and even when I was paying attention, I realized I was making a ton of mistakes. It shouldn't be this hard for people who are really trying. And it needs to be to the point where even people casually conscious of their diet know within a quick glance exactly how bad some stuff is for you. And I agree, one way to do that might be to have seals certifying that a certain food meets certain health standards.