Even if RFK Jr forces Coca Cola and Pepsi to use cane sugar, I'm still going to support the little guys who have been doing it since the beginning.

@xianc78 i don't know anything about this but my new favorite conspiracy theory is the government is going to force you to eat real and healthy food

@icedquinn RFK Jr is right about almost everything related to food, but I feel like people are putting way too much faith in him. There are plenty of alternative food and drinks that don't use seed oils or beet sugars and they aren't that expensive. You don't even need to go to a farmer's market or health food store to buy them, just shop in the outer perimeter of your store. Meijer has a huge selection of cane sugar sodas.

@xianc78 i think the problem here is that line go uppers are obligated to absolute minmaxing society against the bottom line. so it doesn't matter if beet juice causes less diabetes, because beet juice costs more than grinding baby skulls.
There's been a lot of propaganda too that supports waste products being dumped into our food supply. People really believe putting Fluoride salts (industrial waste products) somehow strengthens teeth. I knew one guy who even said it was the cheapest thing we could do for poor kids dental health.

But the trouble is, those people who have been taught to believe the religion of fluoride will not be willing to even entertain the idea they could be wrong, and Orange Fascists + Scratchy Voice Anti-Vaxer supporting the idea that maybe we shouldn't be putting medication directly in the water supply just re-enforces that religious belief that they are the ones who are trying to kill us all ... :blobcatgooglyshrug:
@djsumdog @icedquinn @xianc78 with the nonstop lying and fraud coming out of the medical industry, at this point it's worth reconsidering our previously held assumptions of what's safe and effective vs what's a scam at best and dangerous at worst. if they've been fudging the data for the past couple decades, why not the previous few decades too?
@skylar @icedquinn @djsumdog @xianc78 emulate lifestyles and diets of those living long healthy lives and avoid ones of people miserable and in pain in their 50s and 60s.
@RedTechEngineer @djsumdog @xianc78 @skylar there was something about the 50s that allowed people to be stick thin and relatively healthy while blazed out on six medicinal cigarettes and a bottle of whiskey a day, tho

If you read about most people who make it past 100 (centennials) you'll fine people who just eat fish and chips or who don't exercise other than walking or short bike rides or who smoke. Meanwhile most marathon runners don't make it to 80 (heavy intake and burn of energy reduces your lifespan a bit).

Living to 100 is probably pure genetic lottery. There's nothing you can do to get you there, and there probably aren't a lot of them because there's zero evolutionary pressure that benefits humans for living that long.

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My main theory is that the people who reached 100 didn't spend their entire lives in polluted urban hellholes. How often do we see a centennial giving an interview from his New York flat, and how often do we see them give an interview from their house in a small town or village, in the middle of nowhere, in some place you've never heard of. I've seen cases where they don't even live in fully modernized areas. And it's almost a trope to hear them say "I've lived in this house my entire life".
I think we underestimate the stress of living in urban environments and the effects it has on our bodies.

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@alyx @djsumdog @icedquinn @RedTechEngineer @xianc78 probably true
constant noise pollution, light pollution, air pollution, and whatever the hell is in city water that makes it taste so foul
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