Are Zero Fizzy Drinks Healthy?

Stoke

Toothsmith wrote: »

'Less Bad' is probably a better way of thinking about it!

So the only thing we can drink is water and tea basically?

Can't even drink coffee these days, too much caffeine apparently.

Red-Squirrel_2

Stoke wrote: »

So the only thing we can drink is water and tea basically?

Can't even drink coffee these days, too much caffeine apparently.

Decaf isn't as bad as you'd think!

There's a fair whack of caffeine in a cup of tea too BTW, sorry.

Stoke

Red-Squirrel wrote: »

Decaf isn't as bad as you'd think!

There's a fair whack of caffeine in a cup of tea too BTW, sorry.

Drink water and eat nothing but spinach and tofu

Red-Squirrel_2

Stoke wrote: »

Drink water and eat nothing but spinach and tofu

To be fair, add in the decaf coffee and that's my life! :rotfl:

Stoke

Red-Squirrel wrote: »

To be fair, add in the decaf coffee and that's my life! :rotfl:

Brilliant.

Just a disclaimer, I actually like tofu. I was just saying the most obviously outrageous food for this point Couldn't think of any others really......

trailingspouse

Red-Squirrel wrote: »

I'd have thought it was quite easy to tell if food is real or not.

Can you see it? Can you pick it up? Can you eat it and not die as a result?

If yes to all three, its probably real food.

You know what I mean.
And eating too much of the bad stuff? Yes, people die as a result. Obesity, diabetes, heart disease...

trailingspouse

Pennywise wrote: »

Nor would spirits, wine, beer etc. It would be a very boring world if everyone only drank water.

So you think the only healthy drink is water?
There's so much out there that isn't fizzy pop!!

Stoke

trailingspouse wrote: »

You know what I mean.

We all know what you meant

To simplify though, let's say your two forms of food are fake and real.....
McDonald's Hamburger - High Calorie, Highly Processed, Low Nutrition.
Lean Chicken + Vegetables - Low Calorie, Low Processed, High Nutrition.

Instead of thinking about it like the above: assume all foods are a number..... specifically a number you must subtract from your bigger number..... and forget about nutrition altogether. This is the simplest form of maintaining a calorie deficit. You can not only maintain a healthy lifestyle eating crap like McDonald's, you can even lose weight eating nothing but McDonald's..... it's all about those calories

Precisely the reason why I routinely call out the facts presented on Morgan Spurlock's documentary Super Size Me

Move More, Eat Less, Maintain A Calorie Deficit = WEIGHT LOSS BABY.

Red-Squirrel_2

trailingspouse wrote: »

You know what I mean.
And eating too much of the bad stuff? Yes, people die as a result. Obesity, diabetes, heart disease...

Actually I don't know what you mean. You're going on about real food, what else is there? Imaginary food?

trailingspouse

Red-Squirrel wrote: »

Actually I don't know what you mean. You're going on about real food, what else is there? Imaginary food?

Junk food.

It's not difficult to tell the difference. Or maybe it is, in which case I apologise.

Maybe I should explain.

Real food is actual meat, or fish, or vegetables that you take home and cook. You can see what it is and where it's come from (not literally the farm, although you often can these days - I mean you can see that the meat came from an animal).

Junk food is so highly processed that it's really quite difficult to know how it's made or what it contains, without a detailed study of the label. You wouldn't be able to make it at home (and fizzy pop comes into this category).

There are some items that fall somewhere between the two - cook chill meals, for example. You could make something similar at home, and you could have a reasonable stab at guessing the ingredients. They tend to be higher in fat, salt and sugar than the home-made version.
I'm not some sort of evangelist that's never eaten a frozen pizza - I just think it's important to avoid the foods that are actively harmful.

To return to the original question - is zero fizzy pop healthy. Can you guess what the ingredients are? Could you make it at home? If the answer is no, then it's probably not healthy. So I wouldn't waste my money on it (and this is a money-saving site!)