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Study: Diet soda doesn't help you lose weight

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Re: Study: Diet soda doesn't help you lose weight

#51

Of course it doesn't. For the same reason Subway doesn't have fresh ingredients.

You're saying the body makes analogous supply and demand decisions about energy balance that Subway management makes when setting up their supply chain? Please elaborate, because this is either a deep insight beyond my understanding or else shallow and simplistic. I hope it's the former.

Re: Study: Diet soda doesn't help you lose weight

#52

You don't need a study to know that none of the Soda drinks are of any help to any humans. Humans lived without soda for very long time until someone invented Pepsis and Cokes and .... and they are not something you use to help yourself for anything. So why bother?

Your post could be paraphrased as "It's obvious X isn't helpful because X isn't ancient and X isn't helpful. Why do people do/use X?"

Please use better logic. Also, fetishizing ancient things is an impediment to progress.

The long term survival of the human species in the presence of something is (weak) evidence that the thing isn't harmful, but the logical inversion isn't true. That is, the survival of the human species for a long time without something is neither a valid argument for nor against that thing's benefit.

Re: Study: Diet soda doesn't help you lose weight

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post #52

You don't need a study to know that none of the Soda drinks are of any help to any humans. Humans lived without soda for very long time until someone invented Pepsis and Cokes and .... and they are not something you use to help yourself for anything. So why bother?

Your post could be paraphrased as "It's obvious X isn't helpful because X isn't ancient and X isn't helpful. Why do people do/use X?" Please use better logic. Also, fetishizing ancient things is an impediment to progress. The long term survival of the human species in the presence of something is (weak) evidence that the thing isn't harmful, but the logical inversion isn't true. That is, the survival of the human spe…

Using or not using a so-called useless thing is not a question of human survival. Humans are consuming soda and it has been proven that it isn't HELPFUL. So the question is really about the continuous waste of time, resources and energy (in producing and consuming) versus that of the intent behind all these (time, resources and energy).

Unless of course you believe that producing/consuming Soda is HELPFUL in a sense that it is helpful towards economy (someone's making and people are consuming it). In this case, I have no argument here because the intent is clear enough.

Re: Study: Diet soda doesn't help you lose weight

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post #51

Of course it doesn't. For the same reason Subway doesn't have fresh ingredients.

You're saying the body makes analogous supply and demand decisions about energy balance that Subway management makes when setting up their supply chain? Please elaborate, because this is either a deep insight beyond my understanding or else shallow and simplistic. I hope it's the former.

It's simplistic but not shallow.

People are in general far too trusting of commercial labels like "diet" and "fresh" when they should be making healthy choices about their companies they buy from instead of the products.

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