• odd@feddit.org
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    10 hours ago

    This baffles me so often. I have a coworker who is on cigarettes, weed, caffeine, and alcohol. But is not vaccinated, because that’s unhealthy.

    Lately he cought me in the office eating sweets and started to educate me how bad sugar is.

    You can’t make that shit up.

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      5 hours ago

      There’s a reckoning coming with social media mark my words. I don’t know when or how but it’s going to reach a tipping point when the destruction is enough.

      It is destroying families and communities not government, or science, or policies. People like Elon and Zuckerberg are sowing the seeds that are actively destroying the fabric of society.

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      Lately he cought me in the office eating sweets and started to educate me how bad sugar is.

      I mean, people do tend to eat more sugar than they probably should, but the main artificial sweetener that I see used in candies is xylitol, which is, unfortunately, also a laxative. Eat more than a few xylitol-sweetened candies at one sitting, and one’s in for diarrhea.

      I assume that we don’t have an artificial sweetener in 2024 that both avoids having a laxative effect and has the appropriate properties to subsititute for sugar in candies. I’d be delighted if someone would manage to develop one, though.

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        The laxative properties disappear after a while (a few weeks). Our body accommodates for it so that 200g per day are no big problem anymore.

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        Xylitol also have interesting properties for preventing tooth decay. Not the worst sugar alternative imo

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        7 hours ago

        Good lord. I went to the kitchen to get me a coffee and grabbed a cookie from the snack bar.