Anon Report This Comment
Date: May 25, 2024 06:42AM

Anyone you know woberto?

Anon - not logged in Report This Comment
Date: November 14, 2025 12:05AM

An associate professor of surgery told me exactly the same thing.

quasi Report This Comment
Date: November 14, 2025 11:56AM

In first world societies food has become a drug, a legal, plentiful, relatively inexpensive drug. The evolutionary path we humans took that rewarded our hunter gatherer ancestors for consuming high calorie foods with high physical energy and our development of high storage capacity to stave off starvation in time of food shortages has become a bane in time of plenty. We are born with certain food cravings and a physical make up that stores excess calories, evolutionary survival tactics that our brains are better at fulfilling than they are at ignoring those natural tendencies. We have become victims of our own success.

pulse Report This Comment
Date: November 14, 2025 01:44PM

I don't have much in the way of food cravings. But I do love Coke. If it's in the house it disappears, I don't often buy it. And I mean real Coke, from a can. Not from McDonalds or a fountain or whatever.

We only have real sugar Coke here though. I don't know how I'd feel about the American one. I don't really remember it. I'm sure it was fine, I'm sure I probably had some. Shrug?

quasi Report This Comment
Date: November 14, 2025 10:13PM

Pepsi

pulse Report This Comment
Date: November 14, 2025 11:12PM

Pepsi is fine at eg places that don't have Coke available.

woberto Report This Comment
Date: November 14, 2025 11:19PM

Anon - not logged in Report This Comment
Date: November 17, 2025 04:29AM

Added sugar and acidic foods, including foods that become acidic in the body, are the real problem foods.

The growing brain needs iron, but it doesn't leave the brain, so if you have a very high iron intake after about age 21, when the brain shrinks in old age the iron overload is linked to problems.

Lifestyle is something else. If you want to live the life of an athlete (be my guest), you must be as fit as one.

A lot of operations could be solved by lifestyle changes: if you're retired and want to do five laps of the golf course a day, then need a knee replacement, try dropping down to three laps instead.

pulse Report This Comment
Date: November 17, 2025 07:47AM

My brain says I'm a 21 year old athlete.

My body disagrees.