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Sugar Is The Worst

YoursTrulyYoursTruly
edited March 2012
You know what fucks me up? Forget about coffee. SUGAR.

I just uncharacteristically wanted a big old hot chocolate, to fortify me during this trying time of interview prep. I made a hot chocolate. I drank it. And now I feel like I am going to barf, like how you feel when you just had one too many vodka sours. My stomach is in knots, my hands are shaking, my head is pounding. It is like being over-caffeinated PLUS NAUSEATED.

WTF?

How do people eat tons of sugar? I know this is a normal thing people do. It must be a tolerance thing, you must build it up.

This is terrible. If I could go back and not have that chocolate I would do it; when have I ever said that about coffee?

To be fair, I have said that about pizza before.

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  • Clever_girlClever_girl
    edited March 2012
    I don't normally drink soda, but I drank some root beer at Burgerville the other day and I had a similar reaction. My body was like, "UGH, what is THIS?"

    I don't have a problem with ice cream or chocolate or other sugary things, but sugary drinks are just too much. You might as well set up an IV of sugar if you're going to drink that.
  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    Yeah, last time I drank a Coke I felt really awful.
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    ugh!!!
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    just get a diet coke nbd

    ; - ]
  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    Ewwwwwwww. Diet Coke is as scary as cigarettes to me because it seems like people get really hooked on it. One time I did get a "Coke Zero" on a flight just for the novelty of it.
  • LelandLeland
    edited March 2012
    "....and then what happened?"

    "NOTHING!"

    bahdumpbump....





    (thank you very much. I hope you are all having a lovely evening tonight. ...... )
  • LucyLucy
    This may be the terrified consumer in me talking, but isn't there an ingredient in Diet Coke that turns into formaldehyde in your body? No bueno.
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    yes
  • 12341234
    That has to be a urban myth.
  • MatthewMatthew
    Maybe a suburban myth.
  • curtcurt
    If you trust Wikipedia, here's what it says:

    "The methanol produced by the metabolism of aspartame is absorbed and quickly converted into formaldehyde and then completely converted to formic acid, which, due to its long half life, is considered the primary mechanism of toxicity in methanol poisoning. The methanol from aspartame is unlikely to be a safety concern for several reasons. The amount of methanol in aspartame is less than that found in fruit juices and citrus fruits, and there are other dietary sources for methanol such as fermented beverages. Therefore, the amount of methanol produced from aspartame is likely to be less than that from natural sources. With regards to formaldehyde, it is rapidly converted in the body, and the amounts of formaldehyde from the metabolism of aspartame is trivial when compared to the amounts produced routinely by the human body and from other foods and drugs. At the highest expected human doses of consumption of aspartame, there is no increased blood levels of methanol or formic acid, and ingesting aspartame at the 90th percentile of intake would produce 25 times less methanol than would be considered toxic."

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspartame_controversy
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