Coke kills!

[Penny Lane 8,159]

I think some people just don't want to know what they're putting into their bodies. Ignorance is bliss.

[Teddy B 17,252]

lol, i eat fast food maybe twice a month when I'm in a hurry.

I actually make most of my meals, and I Juice quite a bit.

That would help explain most of your posts.

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

I mainly consume green tea - probably 4 cups a day. Sake or Beer in the evening.

I'll have a ginger ale maybe once every week or two.

Edited February 13, 2013 by Usui Takumi

[TBoneTX 46,122]

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[Glyn and Kathy 288]

I don't drink soda...unless I have something like a rum and coke, which is very rare. I drink water all day.... preferably sparkling. When I was still in the States, I drank Polar Seltzer, so yummy and nothing in it but water and natural flavours. Unfortunately, the UK has nothing like it Any of their flavoured fizzy water has sugar or artificial sweeteners in it.

Edited to add: I for one like the nutritional information. I've been eating healthier and losing weight since the beginning of the year and if I'm going out, I want to make an informed choice. Some things that would seem fairly healthy and low cal are absolutely not. I tend to go on the website of wherever we're going and find the nutritional info there first.

Edited February 14, 2013 by Glyn and Kathy

[CHarvey80 72]

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Reading is hard. All those extra numeric and alphabetic characters really throw some people off. A menu should be Ikea style. A picture of the object being sold with a price represented as a number of strawberries.

Isn't that how they do it at the Waffle House?

[Kathryn41 3,205]

I can't imagine anyone consuming the amount of coke that she did each day- yipes! It's hard to believe her body weight was normal, but yeah, nutritionally she would be way out of balance. I tend to drink diet ice tea if I'm out but we have Fresca at home so occasionally have that too. Mainly, I drink tea, home-made ice tea and coffee, generally decaffeinated as yeah, too much caffeine also upsets the nutritional balance.

I would love for all restaurants to have their nutritional information available, if not on the menu, at least as a hand out that can be requested. I count carbohydrates - by necessity as I need to programme in the carbs I am consuming for my insulin pump to calculate the correct amount of insulin for that meal (I have type 1 diabetes) - and eating out becomes such a challenge trying to determine what the carb count is in a meal. I can under-estimate - which is relatively easy to correct with correction adjustments in my insulin later - or over-estimate, which can actually be dangerous and send me into insulin shock, So, yeah, I would love for the nutritional information that is listed on food containers and packaging to be available for restaurant meals as well. I do have a published guide that does provide the carb listing for most fast food restaurant mealss but it would be nice if the restaurants provided it on site as well.

Edited February 17, 2013 by Kathryn41

[NikLR 13,232]

I generally only have pop when I'm drinking. Even at a restaurant I get an iced tea (or sweet tea down in the USA... lol)

btw in Canada the nutritional information is available on a wall before you place your order. Or you can read it on the back side of the paper they put on the tray OR on the actual item itself! It's amazing.

[kdude1 3]

It can really ruin the enamel of your teeth.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

less that a quart (32 oz) ...unless i'm drinking liquor w/ it.

Why would you ruin perfectly good liquor with soda? That's just sick!

[everafter0509 1]

Well all that is excess is bad.. even excess plain water is bad

[moemac59 193]

Why would you ruin perfectly good liquor with soda? That's just sick!

Amen Big Dog just a splash of H20