Soda without ice is too syrupy sweet. It needs the ice to water it down a little.
I hope you had a bathroom nearby!
Coke is better than laxatives whether you need it or not! 
If true then I’m sure, as others have mentioned, that there are other factors to consider, as well, like Mediterranean diet, more exercise and perhaps less stressful lifestyles and such that play a part in life expectancy, as well.
(This is the type of thing that, as a long term cardiac nurse, really bothers me about the recipes I was talking about last night that are so full of excess butter and salt, cheese, ugh! We need to protect our childrens’ and our own heart health starting at a young age!)And school buses in suburbia stop at almost every street corner.
I've never had that issue with Coke. Coffee, on the other hand...I hope you had a bathroom nearby!
Bad food tastes good and is much easier to get.
100 years ago a "circus freak" Fat Man weighed much less than some of our larger population today.
Ah I remember those studies from the 60s. We were eating more simply then (not all the processed foods) but our diets, compared to say Viet Nam, were much more "meat" centric and I think that's where a lot of the differences came from. My friend is from Viet Nam and just went back to visit her father and brought some steaks over there on her trip. Not that they don't have it there, but it's very expensive and not as easy to obtain. But I digress...these days I am concerned with many of the "diets" out there which advocate a lot of meat products. I wonder what impact they have even with weight loss to go with them.I hope you had a bathroom nearby!
If true then I’m sure, as others have mentioned, that there are other factors to consider, as well, like Mediterranean diet, more exercise and perhaps less stressful lifestyles and such that play a part in life expectancy, as well.
Let’s not forget the studies that were done on deceased young 20-something men in the Vietnam era looking at their coronary arteries. The American servicemen had the beginnings of coronary artery disease, whereas the Vietnamese did not. Even back in the 60s our diets were going downhill compared to much of the rest of the world. And things have gotten so much worse since then.
Smoking, however, continues to be a significant modifiable risk factor for not just heart disease, but many diseases like cancer, peripheral artery disease, and others, and a surprising number of people still smoke.
And school buses in suburbia stop at almost every street corner.
It's not the addition of meat, or the amount of meat, its the processed food & other garbage that makes meat out to be the bad guy. If you eat lots of meat, but no garbage to cause issues, you can not only lose weight (or gain if underweight because it is sort of a weight correction diet, not weight loss diet)
Yes, I've read some of those reports also that there isn't such a negative effect. But thinking back to the 1960s and where they did autopsies on soldiers (who were most likely born in the 1940s and raised in the 50s, there wasn't all that "garbage" combined with the meat. There really wasn't. So not sure where the disconnect is between our soldiers and Vietnamese soldiers. I'm going to go with probably MUCH more plants in the diet.
Yea, i would agree the garbage was almost nonexistent then, so in that time frame it would likely be something different... more plants here or there? and are you thinking people were more or less healthy in the 50's here or there?
I think Vietnam has had a long standing plant-based diet. We have not. But I think in the 50s/60s, our diets were more healthy in the U.S. and apparently, even then, our arteries weren't looking good. So while i believe we had much less garbage in the 50s/60s, I'm not sure that much of the population had healthy plant/veggie options back then. We do know that the country was very meat-centric (mostly beef) back then.
I agree, but I think there are also other things we need to look at.
There is an elementary school that is about 10 minutes walk from my house (depending on how fast of a walker you are) but there is still a bus that picks kids up in my neighborhood and drops them off at the school. For a while, there wasn't a bus and kids were supposed to walk down a wooded path, which wasn't lit and could get really dark at night. I was reading the cesspool that was Nextdoor at the time and parents were complaining so much about the path potentially being dangerous and kids could get abducted or robbed. Eventually after some back and forth between the parents and whoever controls the busses, a bus now comes by and picks the kids up to bring them to the school.
I have agreed with every one of your posts!! It's not the meat, butter or animal fats doing the damage. It's the rancid seed oils, sugar and processed foods. Most people don't believe that though as it goes against the narrative. We might be living longer, but it is not a long-term quality of life. Many people are becoming more animal based (not on this board, but in general that I have seen outside of this board) and improving their quality of life and health markers.
Yea, my mom always says how they had a coffee can of bacon grease on the stove top for cooking, & her dad lived to be 98.
Same reason we allow advertising of prescription meds.. Big Pharma.
I remember woefully looking at my belly slightly pooching back in high school and being horrified. When I look at pictures of myself in a bathing suit back then I am honestly wondering *** my issue was because I looked AMAZINGI wish I was as fat as the first time I thought I was fat.
Thinking specifically about Japanese Breakfast where you'd get a miso soup with veggies and tofu, rice, a piece of fish, a raw egg, some rice and 2-3 different vegetable side dishes. Of course not everybody there eats like that but our equal would be a fat/carb/sugar bomb with eggs, sausage or bacon or both, toast, hashbrowns, a waffle pancake or french toast etc. - even the Brits have their fry up that is nothing like what a big "asian" breakfast would be.
*mind blown* ...
