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Despite the over the top pepsi marketing line at the end, an interesting view on the perspective of society in the 1950s. Also funny how the uploader labels the video as "sexist".

Post: #2

"drink pepsi and you will be thin forever".

That is a hell of a lie. Actually, it is possible that pepsi in 1957 had maybe half as much sugar as a pepsi does today. Still won't make a woman thin

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Most people way back when thought that soda was a relatively healthy thing to drink.

LBJ wanted everyone to know that Fresca was his favorite thing to drink, as people thought of it as the "healthiest" soft drink. He loved it so much he had a Fresca soda fountain installed just off the Oval Office right next to the coffee machine. He'd often carry a Fresca into meetings so people would think of him as healthy.

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Does make you wonder what kind of shit we think is healthy today that we're going to realize is killing us tomorrow.

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Wow I'm really in the redpill thing because I thought that was a really honest commercial.. everything except for pepsi keeping you thin.

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(12-01-2013 09:03 PM)master_thespian Wrote:  "drink pepsi and you will be thin forever".

That is a hell of a lie. Actually, it is possible that pepsi in 1957 had maybe half as much sugar as a pepsi does today. Still won't make a woman thin

No it wouldn't, but it wasn't half as bad for you. They were basically using what is called organic sugar today. It wasn't highly refined, meaning that it was still bound to plant fiber and had to be slowly digested and absorbed into the body. That kept our blood sugar from spiking, which in turn kept our insulin production from spiking and processing a ton of extra energy that we can't possibly use, so we store it as fat.

Highly processed sugars like high fructose corn syrup and to a lesser extent regular processed table sugars aren't bound to those fibers, so we digest them immediately, which causes those spikes which make us fat fucks.

Purity in sugar is a really bad thing.

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(12-01-2013 11:10 PM)Ensam Wrote:  Does make you wonder what kind of shit we think is healthy today that we're going to realize is killing us tomorrow.

Paleo/keto is the answer dude.

Or perhaps not- the archaeological records of lifespan back then are muddied by so many other factors- no healthcare, wooly mammoths etc.

Either way, I think there's a lot of truth in the statement 'if your great gran wouldn't recognise it, don't eat it'.

Simply put, avoid processed foods of all types.

It was a hard slog to wean myself off my 'addiction' to carbs. But now I only crave sugar when drunk. Otherwise I pretty much hate it.

Post: #9

(12-02-2013 02:32 AM)Katatonic Wrote:  

(12-01-2013 09:03 PM)master_thespian Wrote:  "drink pepsi and you will be thin forever".

That is a hell of a lie. Actually, it is possible that pepsi in 1957 had maybe half as much sugar as a pepsi does today. Still won't make a woman thin

No it wouldn't, but it wasn't half as bad for you. They were basically using what is called organic sugar today. It wasn't highly refined, meaning that it was still bound to plant fiber and had to be slowly digested and absorbed into the body. That kept our blood sugar from spiking, which in turn kept our insulin production from spiking and processing a ton of extra energy that we can't possibly use, so we store it as fat.

Highly processed sugars like high fructose corn syrup and to a lesser extent regular processed table sugars aren't bound to those fibers, so we digest them immediately, which causes those spikes which make us fat fucks.

Purity in sugar is a really bad thing.

I find it comical that all of today's "organics" where the past's standard definition of normal.

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(12-02-2013 07:32 AM)roberto Wrote:  Either way, I think there's a lot of truth in the statement 'if your great gran wouldn't recognise it, don't eat it'.

It's probably gotta be your great grandparents by now, if not great-great.

I know my grandparents ate tons of packaged and processed junk. They were the first people introduced to that kinda stuff. My grandparents always had a cabinet full of all kinds of junk, I would love going there as a kid, eating all the sweets my parents wouldn't keep around.

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(12-02-2013 11:49 AM)Sonsowey Wrote:  

(12-02-2013 07:32 AM)roberto Wrote:  Either way, I think there's a lot of truth in the statement 'if your great gran wouldn't recognise it, don't eat it'.

It's probably gotta be your great grandparents by now, if not great-great.

I know my grandparents ate tons of packaged and processed junk. They were the first people introduced to that kinda stuff. My grandparents always had a cabinet full of all kinds of junk, I would love going there as a kid, eating all the sweets my parents wouldn't keep around.

To be fair, your great great gran probably wouldn't recognize more than a few dishes, as a modern western diet includes foods from around the world.