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emo_snal

25 of 30 - Zero Calories!

Jun 25, 2009 06:54

Zero calories! Zero carbs! Sugar free!! What IS in this stuff*? I am highly distrustful of anything that is zero calories or sugar free (that should normally have sugar in it). Personally, I take "zero calories" or "sugar free!" as an automatic veto on buying a product. But then again, I'm someone who once saw a headline about how chili ( Read more... )

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failaga June 25 2009, 15:13:53 UTC

But then again, I'm someone who once saw a headline about how chili cheese fries are one of the worst things you can eat and felt inspired by it to buy them for lunch that day.<<<

This also made ME want chili cheese fries ):

emo_snal June 26 2009, 06:27:04 UTC

And from the place I got them they were HUGE! Two of my coworkers tried to help me eat them and even THEN we didn't eat more than half of them I think. 3,000 calories? THAT order of chili cheese fries had to be more like 50,000!!!

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food emo_snal June 26 2009, 06:32:52 UTC

I refuse to "eat healthy" in a paying attention and selecting healthy food specifically, on principal. But it just so happens that I really don't like food that is particularly rich, greasy, or sugary. I would take a second helping of beef stew over chocolate cake ANY day. I am suspicious of organic food (I actually think it's wasteful -- it's less efficient to produce and therefore less food can be produced, etc), but do try to avoid food that has been specifically altered to make it sugar free or calorie free or ___-free. I guess you could say I like my food the way it's "supposed to be" (throwing out the hippie assumption that it's "supposed" to be grown avoiding modern agricultural innovations).

In re ramen noodles, I still enjoy the quick ramen dish, but I heard they're rather unhealthy? Ridiculous amounts of sodium or something? In college I once inherited a veritable horde of ramen from a girl who had learned how unhealthy ramen was..

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Re: food emo_snal June 27 2009, 19:39:31 UTC

Ah yes. I heart french fries (the saltier the better!), and can't stand potatoe chips. Tortilla chips on the other hand... :d

furzicle June 25 2009, 15:48:32 UTC

In answer to the Echidna Media's rant against calorie free food, I must stand up for the freedom to buy and drink calorie free drinks, as the previous writer has done. When I was diagnosed with Type II diabetes I didn't weep for the chocolate cake, (well, yeah, OK, a little) or for candy filled ice cream, or even too much for the baked potatoes I wasn't s'posed to eat anymore. The thing that killed me the most was the ban on fruit juice. Even milk has too much sugar in it. So, though I had never been a soda drinker, I began eventually to drink calorie free soda ( ... )

jennelle137 June 25 2009, 19:09:47 UTC

I agree with you. If figure if I want the soda, it should at least have real sugar in it, instead of some chemical slurry.

emo_snal June 26 2009, 06:34:19 UTC

Not that most soda has real sugar in it, at least in America apparently. (: I wasn't planning on doing another food post but this evening I happened to start reading up on high fructose corn syrup and it looks like it's going to be the subject of my next entry.

fsk8ing_judge June 27 2009, 15:58:38 UTC

With the exception of people with an actual physical health risk in place for ingesting too much sugar, I agree with this post. I do eat healthy and organic as much as humanly possible, but for me it's a matter of principal--I refuse to ingest a product that has been chemically manipulated just so I can have something akin to a splurge. Just give me the real thing, be it the random cheeseburger or Butterfinger bar at times, and my body will deal with it.
People ask me why I started eating organic and watching what I ate a bit more carefully. My answer was always the same: I was beginning to feel like a subsidiary of the Dow Chemical Company.

Unnatural emo_snal June 27 2009, 19:13:37 UTC

Hahaha yeah. It's funny because my "natural state" feelings extend to things which aren't natural anyway -- I'll drink root beer or other soda that doesn't usually have caffiene in it, but if my cocoa-cola doesn't have caffiene in it I feel like it's an evil "unnatural" thing to be avoided, since it "naturally" has caffiene ... I don't know if the caffiene really is a "natural" part of the way they make it or for all I know they specifically add it anyway, but on any account, it's SUPPOSED to have it. (: