The average US kid eats 5,000 calories of easter candy between Good Friday and Easter Monday - Polidicks

I had 1 chocolate egg this year. Good year.

[QUOTE=Zeke129;40130489][url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2013/02/15/artificial-sweetners-diet-nutrition.html]Anything sweet but without caloric content may be capable of changing the body's response to actual sugar[/url][/QUOTE] "Writing in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, the researchers said the women's age and body size were taken into account but eating habits may have changed over time and factors besides consumption of artificially sweetened drinks couldn't be ruled out." It's hardly anything damning, and not a particularly good study for trying to make that connection. The insulin response theory has been bandied about before, and there's never been any solid evidence for it, the problem is all the evidence for such theories comes from [B]rat[/B] studies. It goes without saying, rats aren't humans. And human studies looking for similar effects have found nothing conclusive. Furthermore, most of this is nothing more than opinions - ""A number of epidemiological studies show that people who do consume high intensity sweeteners show differences in metabolic responses, have an increased risk for things like Type 2 diabetes and also have an increased risk for overweight and obesity."" Do they? Where are those studies? Aspartame is one of most thoroughly researched sweeteners, and a number of epidemiological studies show nothing to that effect. [url]http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17828671[/url] [url]http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12180494[/url] Dana Small's opinion is just that, an opinion. No evidence is shown here, just a theory on what she thinks might be the impact of artificial sweeteners. [editline]2nd April 2013[/editline] Really, one guy pretty much nailed it in the comments: "[B]This is social research and not scientific facts.[/B] The social researcher pours over studies and releases a subjective narrative that includes words like "may", "could", "possibly", etc. Scientists don't use subjective words. The only deal with facts, they don't write narratives about the facts. The social researchers write the scenario in their assumptions. Social researchers are crystal ball soothsayers and nothing more."

Lol, scrubs, I drink atleast 2 litres of soft drinks [B]a day[/B] My metabolism is fucked and i don't gain any weight whatsoever, though. i can basically live off fast food alone and not get fat :v:

You won't get fat, instead you'll get diabetes.

I managed to find the study that talks about how the response in rats and humans are different but I can't access more than the abstract, I'll take your word (and wikipedia's) on it though. ok go drink diet coke all day then

[QUOTE=DrogenViech;40130987]Lol, scrubs, I drink atleast 2 litres of soft drinks [B]a day[/B] My metabolism is fucked and i don't gain any weight whatsoever, though. i can basically live off fast food alone and not get fat :v:[/QUOTE] this is fucked.

mercia'

I used to drink up to a liter or more of coca cola a day, realized this'll ruin me and stopped cold turkey after last Christmas. Haven't had a soft drink/soda in 4 months.

I basically just drink water now. Never had a taste for carbonated beverages of alcohol TBQH. Did eat massive amounts of turkey and chocolate over the weekend though. Hell, I ate some turkey dinner, hopped on my bike and rode for about an hour, and then ate more dinner immediately after getting home. It was a delicious weekend. Now I feel bad for eating so much.