Religion and Ethics Forum
General Category => Science and Technology => Topic started by: Gonnagle on April 05, 2016, 01:26:54 PM
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According to a guy on the Jeremy Vine show, drinking diet coke or similar makes you feel even more hungry, something to do with your body expecting sugar and then not receiving it.
Also being overweight has quite a lot to do with what gut bacteria you have.
Just thought I would share.
Gonnagle.
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If you are over weight, you could in the near future have a gut bacteria transplant :o :o
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The guy is called Michael Mosley, knows his stuff ;) ;)
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The best diet drink is water, imo.
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Coke is an abomination, diet coke, doubly so...
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Coke is an abomination, diet coke, doubly so...
On the other hand, Pepsi Max is nectar, especially when mixed with a nice rum.
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On the other hand, Pepsi Max is nectar, especially when mixed with a nice rum.
I can't stand Pepsi, I much prefer Coke.
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On the other hand, Pepsi Max is nectar, especially when mixed with a nice rum.
I can't stand Pepsi, I much prefer Coke.
Ditch them both and stick with the rum....
:)
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Dear Floo,
Me too, I hate Pepsi >:(
Dear Stranger,
Ditch them both and stick with the rum....
Good advice, in the words of the wonderful Michael O'Flynn, when I drink water I drink water, when I drink Whisky I drink Whisky.
Gonnagle.
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I've found a bottle of sparkling water with a dash of cordial added is more refreshing.
I find most fizzy drinks, especially the diet ones are far too sweet, it's like they over compensate. :o
I'd much rather have a fizzy drink that was less sweet.
If you buy a bottle of sparkling water and add a small amount of squash, it's much nicer I've found.
Some of the 50% fruit ones are nice, peach and white grape.
Its cheaper too.
Sparkling water is only about 17p a big bottle.
You have to drink it fairly quickly as it goes flat, if left.
:)
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I can't understand why people buy water when it is literally on tap all the time?
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I can't understand why people buy water when it is literally on tap all the time?
It doesn't come out of the tap sparkling ;)
Sometimes bottled water tastes nicer, depends where you live.
Some people drink recycled pee out of taps, plus there is the taste of chemicals, again depending on where you live. :-\
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Drinking pee is supposed to be good for you :D. I remember years ago a forum poster extolling its virtues, he drank a small cup of his own pee every day and he said it made his hair grow back after he went bald. He also never had any infections.
However. houses nowadays are built so that the water can be drunk out of any tap in the house and is already filtered, so quite safe. Same applies if you have work done on an older house, the plumbers organise all that. Granted it isn't sparkling.
I order bottled water in restaurants, sometimes sparkling, and it's good to have a bottle or two in the car but, like floo, I'm more than happy to drink tap water.
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I can't understand why people buy water when it is literally on tap all the time?
The problem with tap water is that it tastes like it's come from the local swimming baths.
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Some people drink recycled pee out of taps, plus there is the taste of chemicals, again depending on where you live. :-\
Tap water in the UK is safer than a lot of the bottled water whatever it might taste like.
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Tap water in the UK is safer than a lot of the bottled water whatever it might taste like.
It may or may not be safe, we still get alerts from time to time warning us of some problem of other, and that incident in Camelford some years ago certainly did not give me too much confidence in the system - but even if it is safe, it still tastes foul.
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Use a Brita filter jug.
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The problem with tap water is that it tastes like it's come from the local swimming baths.
Not here in South Wales (except on the occasions - rare - when they put too much chlorine in at the purification stage).
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Tap water in the UK is safer than a lot of the bottled water whatever it might taste like.
What is more, there are places (especially the Southern US) where bottling water is emptying wells that have been been in existence for centuries, but weren't designed to have hundreds of thousands of litres of water extracted - even on a periodic (weekly/monthly) - basis.
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Use a Brita filter jug.
Yuck. Can't stand the taste of what comes out of those. Too sterile and tasteless.
Mind you, in Nepal, we had to boil the water for 3-5 minutes, cool it and run it through a 'proper' filter with ceramic candles (filters). That was enough if you lived on Pokhara and many other parts of the country. If you lived in Kathmandu, you then had to repeat the boiling process before you could use it!!
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A proposed sugar tax on fizzy drinks has (thankfully) failed in California: https://goo.gl/q56K87
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Dear Shaker,
Well what is the answer then, parents are turning their kids into wee fat gummy monsters.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/childrens-rotting-teeth-crisis-nhs-7759273#ICID=nsm
Gonnagle.
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On the other hand, Pepsi Max is nectar, especially when mixed with a nice rum.
Have to say I use to prefer normal coke. But these days pepsi max is good.
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I've found a bottle of sparkling water with a dash of cordial added is more refreshing.
I find most fizzy drinks, especially the diet ones are far too sweet, it's like they over compensate. :o
I'd much rather have a fizzy drink that was less sweet.
If you buy a bottle of sparkling water and add a small amount of squash, it's much nicer I've found.
Some of the 50% fruit ones are nice, peach and white grape.
Its cheaper too.
Sparkling water is only about 17p a big bottle.
You have to drink it fairly quickly as it goes flat, if left.
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Watered down robinsons cordial very nice. But I feel sometimes only fizzy quenches a thirst.
I use to drink blackcurrant and soda when I did ballroom and Latin American dancing.
It is high in sugar but do like the no added sugar Ribena and only 10 calories is good.
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Since the National Nanny service has announced we should avoid sugary drinks, to play it safe, I am substituting beer.
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Watered down robinsons cordial very nice. But I feel sometimes only fizzy quenches a thirst.
I use to drink blackcurrant and soda when I did ballroom and Latin American dancing.
It is high in sugar but do like the no added sugar Ribena and only 10 calories is good.
I'll have to try that, thanks :)
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If you are over weight, you could in the near future have a gut bacteria transplant :o :o
You mean like have some live yoghurt?
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Dear Harrowby,
You mean like have some live yoghurt?
No a bit more complicated than that :o
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-23970219
Gonnagle.
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I think it sounds quite promising and would be more acceptable, less costly and hazardous and more comfortable (for the patient) than bariatric surgery.
Do I gather (from the emoticons) that you don't like the idea?
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Dear Harrowby,
No, just that it is in its early stages of research, more complicated than just replacing one set of bacteria with another, anyway the reason I started this little thread was all about diet drinks ( which I dislike ) the Doctor who was talking about fizzy diet drinks says that our bodies, our minds are conditioned to expect sugar, when the body does not receive the sugar you are left with sugar craving which doesn't help anyone dieting.
Gonnagle.