I hate the taste of diet pop. I *can* tell the difference. I buy the old recipe Pepsi with sugar in it rather than corn syrup. I drink between 75 and 120 mg of caffeine a day.
When I was in high school, I remember a kid doing a report where he stressed that caffeine was as bad for you as all the rest of the stimulant drugs. Listening to it, it seemed to me to possibly be a reason to reconsider restrictions on other stimulants, but he intended it as a call to arms against caffeine.
Vocal music and speech competitions always confuse me. Invariably, they sell pizza, walking tacos (because this is Iowa), candy, chips, pop and water. Today's speech competition was the first time I've seen a school actively sell stuff that's not terrible for vocal production. They did the other stuff, too, but they had sandwiches and fruit and stuff too, a lot of it. I'm for that, give them an option to make the right choice.
They only sell diet Coke. I am willing to swear that I've heard that most artificial sweeteners are terrible for kids because they do weird shit to your brain. It may or may not be supported as well as, "sugar makes you fat," but I was under the impression that "sugar makes you fat" was at least as well understood as, "caffeine is socially acceptable heroine."
This particular high school has a coffee shop in it. I assume one day that concept is going to horrify people as much as if schools of this era had actual meth labs in them.
In other, slightly related, news, I'm going to have to stop starting conversations with people with the phrase, "You've heard about the lab rats that..." because no. No one has ever heard about the lab rats.
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