• cosmicgorilla@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    You’ll lose your mind once you see how much sugar is in everything.

    Honey Nut Cheerios? The “healthy breakfast choice” we were told? Serving size is 1 cup. ~25% of the recommended daily sugar. 1 cup doesn’t fill a bowl or your stomach so you eat 2 cups, boom 50% of your daily sugar. You grab a can (12oz) of Dr Pepper with lunch? Boom that’s another ~75% of your daily recommended sugar.

    It’s not even dinner and your over your sugar quota. Like 80 grams of sugar in two items.

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      8 hours ago

      It’s sugar if you’re lucky. Everything is mostly corn syrup. “Healthy” cereals are a huge offender here.

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      12 hours ago

      Every few months I track the nutritional values of everything I eat for a few days. It’s insane how much small things can balloon from OK to insane.

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      12 hours ago

      Does someone who cares about their sugar intake drink a Dr. Pepper on the reg? Surely by this point everyone knows sodas are just liquid sugar, right?

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        11 hours ago

        People seem to know but not really care. And you are not allowed to tell them. I was at a wedding and there were like 6 children from 3 to 8 years old. They juat smashed coce and fanta like it’s nothing. One of the kids was double fisting two cans of coke, and i thought that people don’t realise, because they juat picked it out of a cooler, no one was handing them out. When i told tge mom of the kid, she was kind of mad and said it’s fine, it’s an exception today. Usually he only gets one or two cans a day. My sister comprised by not giving their kids soda but gives them a ton of orange juice. I told her that it’s kind of the same amount of sugar, and she got mad and said something like: yeah but it’s the healthy kind. I’m at a point where i just don’t care anymore. Let your child eat pasta and ketchup in a 1:1 ratio then.