Diet pop VS regular pop

[GenuineRisk]

"Pop" vs "Soda" is the line separating Mid-Atlantic PA from Midwestern PA.

Speaking as someone who used to drink two liters of diet soda a day, it's a good idea to cut back. For me it was making pitchers of red zinger tea which has enough flavor to scratch the itch until I broke the addiction. I still like soda, but I don't drink it every day.

But yeah, smoking is much worse for you, so you can still win that argument with your girl.

Of course, now I'm addicted to Starbucks chai lattes. Curse you, Starbucks!

[GPK]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

"Pop" vs "Soda" is the line separating Mid-Atlantic PA from Midwestern PA.

Speaking as someone who used to drink two liters of diet soda a day, it's a good idea to cut back. For me it was making pitchers of red zinger tea which has enough flavor to scratch the itch until I broke the addiction. I still like soda, but I don't drink it every day.

But yeah, smoking is much worse for you, so you can still win that argument with your girl.

Of course, now I'm addicted to Starbucks chai lattes. Curse you, Starbucks!

Juuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuust a touch of sugar in those.

[Sightseek]

Originally Posted by GPK

Juuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuust a touch of sugar in those.

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by GPK

Juuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuust a touch of sugar in those.

Sigh. How well my waistline knows.

[GPK]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

Sigh. How well my waistline knows.

You have a built in excuse. You have given birth.

Although you are still no bigger than a minute. I felt really, really tall next to you.

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by GPK

You have a built in excuse. You have given birth.

Although you are still no bigger than a minute. I felt really, really tall next to you.

Aww... I have that effect on a lot of people. Because most of them are taller than I.

There really is something to the cutting out sugar thing. I got gestational diabetes and had to do the diabetes diet the last couple of months of pregnancy. I have never had so much energy. That diet is just good for you. Todd went on the diet to keep me company and lost ten pounds in a month.

Unfortunately, by the time I was put of recovery after delivery, I'd been without food for almost three days, so I was all, "Chai tea! Frosted mini wheats! Coke!". So much for my sugar-free life.

[Indian Charlie]

Food for thought. Over 50% of all consumer complaints fielded by the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) are for aspartame.

To put that in perspective, the FDA receives more health complaints on Aspartame than all other substances combined.

The only reason it was allowed into our foods was because of a vile human being named Donald Rumsfeld, who used his muscle while head of the company that makes Aspartame. The FDA had initially banned it, but now, of course, claims it's totally safe.

You should read what this stuff is metabolized into in your body, as well, but knowing you, you will be too stupid to care.

One nice benefit of using any artificial sweetener, is that it makes your body crave sweets.

When you taste something sweet, a signal is sent to your liver that you are eating something with sugars in it, and this lets the liver release glucose into your blood, with the expectation of payback in the near future. When this does not happen, people tend to get hungry, and often want sweet foods.

Hence, the rapid rise in obesity.

Here is a really good book on such things, but I doubt you'll be capable of reading it without jumping around.

http://www.amazon.com/Excitotoxins-T...5511984&sr=8-1

All that being said, I encourage you to continue guzzling the Dew! And not the Justin type of Dew.

Or maybe the Justin type, I don't know. Both would be rough to tolerate.

[Rupert Pupkin]

For those of you interested, here is another article from Dr. Al Sears that explains why sugary drinks(especially diet sodas) are so dangerous. The thing I love about this doctor is that he is always up to date on all the newest research.


"It doesn’t matter how healthy or thin you are, reaching for a sugary drink is still dangerous for your heart. Four times as dangerous as not drinking one.

New research presented at the annual meeting of the American Heart Association finds that women who drank only two sugary drinks a day were nearly four times as likely to have high triglycerides, the best predictor of heart risk for women.

They were also significantly more likely to have impaired blood sugar levels even when not eating or drinking.

Sugary drinks increase triglycerides because they are almost pure carbohydrate. Drinking flavored water, sweetened tea, soda, or those dessert-like coffees send a rush of sugar straight into your bloodstream.

When your body gets too much of this kind of carbohydrate, it wants to store it as fat. How does it do this? It turns the carbs into triglycerides. Then it transports them through the blood from the liver where they’re made to the adipose cells where they’re stored.

Problem is, even if you’re outwardly thin, this fat can accumulate around your organs without you ever knowing it. It’s called visceral fat. It causes inflammation, and can lead to the inflammatory diseases diabetes, high blood pressure and obesity.

And sugary drinks are bad for that reason, but diet drinks may actually be worse.

Researchers were shocked when looking at results from the San Antonio Longitudinal Study of Aging. They followed 474 people for nearly 10 years. They compared the change in waist size for diet soda users versus non-users (both sugary drink drinkers and non-drinkers).

People who drank diet sodas had a 70 percent greater increase in waist size. And for those who said they drank two or more diet sodas a day, their bellies grew by 500 percent more.

That’s five times bigger waists for people drinking diet sodas.

On average, for each diet soft drink you have each day, you’re 65 percent more likely to become overweight during the next seven to eight years, and 41 percent more likely to become obese.

Continued......

[Rupert Pupkin]

And it’s not just soda. All juices are just as bad when packaged.

You just can’t package things without ruining them. Because they’re either going to be homogenized, pasteurized or from concentrate and all of those ruin the vitamins and increase the glycemic index.

Unless you’re going to pick the fruit and drink the juice fresh, don’t drink juice.

So what should you drink?

Tea is a very good alternative. Use lemon and lime for flavoring, and if you want a bit of sweetness, use honey. Agave nectar is not too bad, either.

Plain water is another way to go, and you could sweeten your water with just a little bit of fresh squeezed juice or raw sugar.

My favorite flavored water is cucumber water.

Here are three ways to make it:

The first way is to blend a cucumber and strain out the juice overnight. I use any old strainer lined with a cheesecloth, but you can use a fine strainer, too.

Just let the juice drip out of the cucumber into a container in the fridge , and the next daymix the juice you get with a pitcher of ice water. The thing I like about this method is you can decide how much cucumber juice to add, depending on how strong a flavor you want.
You could also cut up a cucumber into small chunks, cover them in the amount of water you want to drink and let it soak in the fridge overnight. In the morning, strain it into a glass or pitcher and throw away the cucumbers.
The third way is to add a bunch of slices of cucumber to some ice water, let it sit for a couple of hours, and you’ll have a tasty drink in no time.
Mint makes cucumber water even more refreshing. If you add mint, blend it in with the cucumber in the first method. Chop the mint and let it soak with the cucumber chunks in the second method, or just break up some mint and let it sit in the water for the third.

To Your Good Health,


Al Sears, MD

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by bigrun

I'm from western PA....It was pop...down here it is soda or drink...KY was drink..
Speaking of western PA, i have a coffee mug titled Pittsburghese..all the words common to westPA..Here's a few..

Stillers - Steelers
yunz - all of you - a big favorite
ketch - catch
spicket - faucet
cubbird - cupboard
rilly - really
ignernt - ignorant
babushka - scarf

my grandmother gave me a babushka for christmas, and yeah-we were 'yinz'. we countered with y'all and got grief for that. all in fun. met a guy down here that as soon as he started talking i said 'you're from pittsburgh'. yes, he was.

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by Danzig

my grandmother gave me a babushka for christmas, and yeah-we were 'yinz'. we countered with y'all and got grief for that. all in fun. met a guy down here that as soon as he started talking i said 'you're from pittsburgh'. yes, he was.

One that may be peculiar to PA is "sliding board." When my Western-PA sister-in-law called to tell me my nephew broke his leg on the sliding board, I knew what she was talking about. When I told the story to non-PA parents of toddlers, every one of them said, "What's a sliding board?"

(It's a slide. I don't know why PA'ers sometimes add -ing board, but we do)

[OldDog]

Originally Posted by Sightseek

Speaking of regional names, which leads to regional foods....

anyone else ever have a hot wiener?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_wiener

Never heard of that before, but it's interesting that it's credited to the Greek immigrant community, and that the spices mentioned are a part of the spices that make up Cincinnati chili, which is widely regarded as being of Greek origin (two of the major players were started by Greek families), although the wiki page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati_chili
mentions other countries, too.

Another favorite in the area is goetta
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goetta

While the store-bought is pretty good, home-made is the best. I have good recipies for both Cincinnati chili and goetta. (Goetta also happens to be the name of a champion Quarter Horse.)

The local thang where I live now is Frogmore Stew, aka Lowcountry Boil.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seafood_boil
Simple to make, it's a regular request when guests from up north visit.

I'm getting hungry...

Oh, and lots of folks in the South call it Co-Cola.

[Calzone Lord]

Originally Posted by Indian Charlie

The only reason it was allowed into our foods was because of a vile human being named Donald Rumsfeld, who used his muscle while head of the company that makes Aspartame. The FDA had initially banned it, but now, of course, claims it's totally safe.

You should read what this stuff is metabolized into in your body, as well,

The same Donald Rumsfeld that tried to convince us Iraq might have been linked with Al Qadia?

Oh gawd...I'm probably a lock to die of cancer.

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by Indian Charlie

The only reason it was allowed into our foods was because of a vile human being named Donald Rumsfeld, who used his muscle while head of the company that makes Aspartame.

That is fascinating! I had no idea. Rumsfeld- the gift that keeps sh*tting on America.

I drank so much diet soda in my teens and 20s. I'm frakking doomed.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

One that may be peculiar to PA is "sliding board." When my Western-PA sister-in-law called to tell me my nephew broke his leg on the sliding board, I knew what she was talking about. When I told the story to non-PA parents of toddlers, every one of them said, "What's a sliding board?"

(It's a slide. I don't know why PA'ers sometimes add -ing board, but we do)

we called it a sliding board.

several sayings down here have made me wonder at times...

hosepipe. it's just a hose

call out the dogs-i had to ask, apparently that means throw a party.


and of course the worst of all-'fixing to'. bizarre use of words imo.

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by Danzig

we called it a sliding board.

several sayings down here have made me wonder at times...

hosepipe. it's just a hose

call out the dogs-i had to ask, apparently that means throw a party.


and of course the worst of all-'fixing to'. bizarre use of words imo.

My husband (OK native) confused me the first time he offered to "put up" the groceries. I said I wasn't aware they needed a place to sleep. Then I realized that was Oklahomese for "put away."

"Might oughta" also amuses me.

[trackrat59]

Originally Posted by GPK

There are 2 drinks a day I NEVER go without. Some sort of Espresso or Iced Coffee and a Caffeine Free Canada Dry Diet Ginger Ale (has to be Canada Dry too). I tend to drink much more of both on my days off. If I drink as much on my work days, I would never get sh*t done because I have the worlds smallest bladder and I piss all day.

My go to drink. I love Ginger Ale (diet only) and CD is the best. It has a clear ginger taste to it.

I knew I loved ya for a reason.

[Indian Charlie]

Originally Posted by Calzone Lord

The same Donald Rumsfeld that tried to convince us Iraq might have been linked with Al Qadia?

Oh gawd...I'm probably a lock to die of cancer.

The one and only.

A smart couple, unlike you and your gf, would take this opportunity to challenge each other in a positive way. You quit the diet soda, she quits smoking (herb is fine!).

It is possible to give up both, but naturally, you have to really want to.

[Danzig]

'used to could'. now, that's an original.



track, kev, i love ginger ale-scarce around here, and unavailable in diet. and utz chips, good luck finding those around here.

[bigrun]

Originally Posted by Danzig

my grandmother gave me a babushka for christmas, and yeah-we were 'yinz'. we countered with y'all and got grief for that. all in fun. met a guy down here that as soon as he started talking i said 'you're from pittsburgh'. yes, he was.

Back about mid 90's we made one of our frequest trips to KY...Stopped at a Waffle House in Blacksburg for breakfast..I am not a redneck but love their breakfast..as we were leaving the waitress ask 'do yunz want coffee to go'.
I said whoa, you are from western PA...yes she said...turns out she went to school with a nephew of mine and her father worked at the Sharon Steel plant...on a trip the next year we stopped by and she was still there...nice young lady...