The PukeBagger Outrage!!

More high fat foods for our children! More high sugar foods for our children! More guns for our children!

Whatever they say, it'll be predictable.

My school already only had diet sodas in the machine I used to think other schools were that way too.

it's sugars and carbs from starches and high fructose corn syrup.

Those extra carbs spike blood sugar and the body starts storing more and more fat in fat cells.

Higher protein (and, yes, even eating protein-laden food high in fat) is the best thing for a human being. It's what we ate for millennia. All this processed crap and chemically altered crap and highly processed wheat is a rather recent introduction into the human diet and it's literally killing us.

I must be dead.

Over a half gallon everyday? Do you at least mix it with rum or something?

Sounds crazy. May be a bad idea. But I've been getting away with it -- if that's the right expression -- for a LONG time now.

No on the rum. In those amounts I WOULD be in trouble if many of those drinks also had alcohol.

I work with a guy that drinks two 2 liters of diet coke a day in the summer and nearly as much in the winter. Doesn't seem to be hurting him either.

Interesting to know about your co-worker.

if you hadn't been drinking 2-4 liters of chemical water a day.

I kicked a two-liter a day habit a few months back and it was very hard to let go. The caffeine is addictive, and the delivery (carbonated bubbles) makes it more addictive, at least to me. But I do feel much better. I still drink a Coke Classic from time to time, when I'm out or in a moment of weakness at the checkout line I'll grab a 10 oz bottle. But that's pretty much it. Of course, you can avoid soda and still be unhealthy - you have to take care of yourself in other ways. But surely you can see that you'd be better off without it. It has ZERO nutrition and at least one ingredient that is a known carcinogen (caramel coloring) or just "iffy" ingredients (Nutrasweet in diet drinks and HFCS in others).

When did this start anyone?

There was one soda machine at my high school, in the band room. There were no vending machines anywhere else in the school.