Wha, to lie about what exactly?
How do people even think coke is not as bad.
The same way some people think drinking diluted bleach is not bad.
'Uuh turns out drinking caffeinated buzzy syrup-water makes your cock real big or something'
Probably not endorsing the Coca-Cola® brand directly but to shift blame away from soft drinks.
It kinda reminds me of when there are studies about fruit's effect on dental health, because yes, it's technically accurate to say fructose is bad for our teeth, but I am suspicious about the intentions behind it because at least fruit has a lot of good stuff in it too. It's sorta whataboutism in terms of nutrition.
remember that video from a few years ago where the guy boils coke and it just turns in to a black sugar sludge? how can anyone drink sugary soft drinks after seeing that
Oh... right, I forget common sense isn't really many people's strong suit.
I don't remember it, but I decided to look it up out of curiosity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZp29Qeu8_U
:wtc:
Coca-Cola has direct ties to right-wing death squads that enforce strikebreaking and have been shown to be willing to straight up do shit like aid the DEA in overseas drug wars so I'm not sure why anyone is surprised that they're the corporate equivalent of Colonel Kilgore.
what
Yeah, no shit, I'm not even fucking with you.
Addiction is a hard leech to rip off.
Not necessary lie, but to muddy the waters. If they can turn the narrative from "sugary soft drinks are clearly bad for you no matter what" into "it's a complicated issue involving many factors" then it's a huge win for them.
I don't think that's how we should be deciding what's good and bad to ingest though. Lots of stuff looks disgusting but it doesn't really mean all that much.
Wow thats one evasive way of saying things. And that makes me question every time I was given an answer like that.
I find full-sugar soft drinks pretty gross, they make my stomach go funny after ever since I stopped drinking them and make my mouth feel disgusting, but...
I think videos like that are kinda stupid. For one, obviously it doesn't boil in your stomach, and for two, if you turned out the half digested contents of your stomach after eating anything it would look similarly vile if not more.
I reckon the pictures that show an equivalent amount (mountain) of table sugar are a better turn off.
Coke isn't healthy for you, but that video is nonsense. Boiling the water out of a drink until the sugar inside caramelizes and burns doesn't give any indication of what it does inside your body. You could do the same experiment with any fruit juice and get the same result.
Mmm, delicious. Oh wait, that's not supposed to be the takeaway, is it?
yeah that's like when I have a fire in my backyard and I see the wood go up in flames. now I can't live in houses anymore! shocking!
The only time I willingly drink soft drinks nowadays is when I have a hypo and I need sugar then and there, tbh. I try and avoid the main brands too.
i obviously dont think coke turns in to an evil sludge inside of my body, it's the visual of the ratio of liquid that burns off vs the amount of syrup that remains.
the sugar cubes are a better visual for sure.
to be honest living in a country where our houses are made of solid brick, wooden houses did seem pretty bizarre to me when i was in the states.
Because it's tasty?
Criticism of the video aside, the same reason people consume anything that's harmful to their bodies. I only drink water and soda. I try to stay off soda as much as I can but water gets pretty
boring and soda washes certain food (like pizza) down too damn good.
To be fair store-bought fruit juice contains a lot of sugar for little to no nutritional value. It's on the same level as most soft drinks.
is coke zero that bad over there? if I drink coke I pretty much only drink zero now and I find it much more pleasant. they redid the flavour of it a couple years ago and now I honestly don't think there is a significant difference.
Even this is slightly misleading, since it makes you think diet soda has no sugar and thus might be good for you, but the artificial sweeteners mimic sugar and thus raise insulin, they can make you crave sugary foods more and shun healthier foods more, can alter your sensation of taste and depending on the sweetener can be addictive like sugar. Artificial sweeteners are nearly 100 times as sweet as sugar so they can use less, but the effects are similar in the body to regular sugar. So while they're not as many calories because of the less amount, it's still basically sugar and you're getting the other side effects of sugar consumption like increased caloric intake from other sources, so it's no magic bullet for diabetes or metabolic syndrome avoidance.
https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/artificial-sweeteners-sugar-free-but-at-what-cost-201207165030
Yup. Any artificial sweetener they can justify to the bean counters is going to taste like regurgitated assholes. I've tried 'diet' and 'zero' versions of pretty much every soft drink on the market and they all taste demonstrably worse than the OG. Dr Pepper is the closest but even that has a disgusting artificial aftertaste that the real deal doesn't have.
You can have a delicious fizzy drink, or a low sugar fizzy drink. Choose. and as pointed out above, you're not really accomplishing nything that way anyway, as the fake sweeteners have most of the same ill effects and make it taste like arse.
drink the OG, and if you're worried about excessive sugar intake, just don't drink very much of it. Or you could, idunno, not worry about it? You're not gonna accomplish much cutting soft drinks out when literally everything on your table has assloads of sugar shoved in for no good reason anyway.
This is retarded, its like those videos using coke to clean their toilets.
NEWSFLASH ITS AN ACID
And congrats, not your toilet smells like coke
The point of that is to show how coke can wreck your gut if you drink it regularly, though. It's a particularly acid beverage, one of the points of putting so much damn sugar in the first place is to balance the acid taste out.
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