Awesome. I was wondering how it would end. "Go get a diet coke or something" is what im going to use as an exit line from now on. Right up there with "to err is human".

It's the French fries you gotta keep an eye on. That Diet Coke isn't helping much.

Some people have sensitivity to Aspartame. I used to get headaches when I was younger from drinking Diet Coke, and it was a co-worker that suggested Aspartame could be the cause. I stopped drinking Diet Coke and the frequent headaches went away.

I drink Coke Zero now, but not as much as I used to, and it doesn't bother me. Coke is still the only thing I will drink rum with.

Never saw my granny ever drink water. Diet coke, iced tea, and crappy merlot (w/ice and sweetener) every once inna while. She was one if those 'fish fuck in it' folks, if you mentioned a glass of water to her she'd always get the same wince on her face...

Celebrate World Water Day with hot tub sex or bathing in a public fountain.

agreed, I committed myself to dying young the day I was told that a raw food vegan diet would be the only way to have the actual recommended cholesterol levels. If I can't eat bacon and at least drink diet coke I don't really want to live.

At some point we have to balance quality of life with our actual healthy choices.

If you stuffed a couple of litres of diet coke into a person's stomach in a balloon, then burst the balloon at the same time you forced mentos down their throat, I'm pretty sure something hilarious would happen.

Hey now guys and gals, he did slice a bottle of Diet coke in there. It at least means he's trying to cut back on soda. He sure isn't drinking water.

*goes to buy stocks in bottled water*

You keep using the word diet as something you can just go on and off of. That's the problem; 'Going on a diet' implies that it's temporary. What's needed to eat and live healthy is a permanent lifetstyle change. In other words, you don't stop the diet. The previous diet is what led to getting overweight in the first place, so of course they gain the weight back if they start eating like that again. Exercise all you want, if you take in more calories than you expend, you will gain weight. If you expend more calories than you take in, you will lose weight. It doesn't matter if you have a problem with that, or if people get depressed, or if you just straight up don't think it's a health issue (it is), that's how it works. That's why this argument takes place when this issue is brought up. It really is just a matter of will power and education on nutrition. How much will power's needed depends on the person, along with their knowledge on nutrition and eating well. Breaking these long standing habits can be incredibly tough, but not impossible.

There's a lot of grey area in the discussion of being overweight and healthy/fit/etc. If you have terrible eating habits, exercise will only make things a bit better; it wont magically counteract all the negative aspects of your body composition, or of the food you eat. The effect food can have on a person astronomically outweighs the potential effects of exercise. That's in no way saying exercise is pointless, but if you're diet's not in check, the exercise alone is like ordering a diet coke with your ten cheeseburgers.
>> ^bmacs27:

You guys aren't listening to what I'm saying. There is nothing wrong with eating right and exercising. I have a problem with caloric restriction, or as it is commonly called "dieting." Further, I have a problem with judging health from weight or BMI. There is very little data to back that up, and in fact the data suggest that a low BMI is actually more problematic than a moderately high 30ish BMI in terms of life expectancy. My issue is that it's been so ingrained in people to associate weight loss (an aesthetic issue) with fitness (a health issue). There are plenty of people that are fit, and no matter what they do, will carry extra weight.
To me "eating right" means eating healthy foods, e.g. whole foods, fruits, vegetables, proteins as your primary nutrition rather than fatty and heavily sweetened foods. Exercise is the most important part of the equation. The data shows that so long as you are not sedentary you can pretty much eat and weigh whatever with little to no health consequence.
The depression does not come simply from the lack of eating, and thus the cessation of a rewarding activity. It comes from the diversion of energy away from active use (e.g. in the nervous system) and towards the restocking of fat stores. In other words, you'll never lose weight, and instead will just be bummed out all the time.
You talk of "millions of people" that have successfully lost weight. I'd like to see a data that shows a diet emphasizing caloric restriction leading to long term reductions in weight. Every study I've seen shows that diets of that sort yield short term weight loss although subjects generally reacquire the weight within a year of stopping the diet, and report depression during the diet. Prove me wrong.

>> ^Fletch:

So what was prize? Wouldn't it be cool if they bet each other's countries and we could all be Canadian, just like that? Yeah, that would be real cool, eh? Or get Harper and Obama to have matches in both DC and Toronto. It could be North America's Hunger Games. The tiebreaker, if needed, could be in Wasilla, which is practically Russia and therefore neutral territory. We'd have to keep Putin from wanting in on the action, because he would just PWN, eh. Anyway, I'd rather be a Canuck. I've been living off of Super-sized #4s (with a Diet Coke to cancel out the guilt) and Iced Animal Cookies for years and I'm aboot ready for the free heart I could get as a Canadian. And my touk could be used for more than just looking pretty in the mirror at home.


It's spelled toque.

So what was prize? Wouldn't it be cool if they bet each other's countries and we could all be Canadian, just like that? Yeah, that would be real cool, eh? Or get Harper and Obama to have matches in both DC and Toronto. It could be North America's Hunger Games. The tiebreaker, if needed, could be in Wasilla, which is practically Russia and therefore neutral territory. We'd have to keep Putin from wanting in on the action, because he would just PWN, eh. Anyway, I'd rather be a Canuck. I've been living off of Super-sized #4s (with a Diet Coke to cancel out the guilt) and Iced Animal Cookies for years and I'm aboot ready for the free heart I could get as a Canadian. And my touk could be used for more than just looking pretty in the mirror at home.

Shooting blanks.

>> ^therealblankman:

Racism, hatred, war, xenophobia, violence against women, mud wrestling, diet coke fountains and religious nuttery. It's like a glimpse into how quantummushroom's mind really works.
promote the horrible.

Racism, hatred, war, xenophobia, violence against women, mud wrestling, diet coke fountains and religious nuttery. It's like a glimpse into how quantummushroom's mind really works.

*promote the horrible.

>> ^Kofi:

>> ^ant:
>> ^Kofi:
Mission accomplished!

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Sorry Ant. I was referring to when Chad finally got his Diet Coke and said "Mission Accomplished" I should have made it clearer but got caught up in the Chad-fever.


Ah, thanks. I didn't watch all the episodes.

>> ^ant:

>> ^Kofi:
Mission accomplished!

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Sorry Ant. I was referring to when Chad finally got his Diet Coke and said "Mission Accomplished" I should have made it clearer but got caught up in the Chad-fever.

no way, somebody left mentos and diet coke in there