• shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      9 months ago

      Born in '71 for context.

      Fat bad!

      Sugar fine, just don’t go nuts. Bad for your teeth.

      Had a hard time getting my head around the idea that some fats are not only OK, but necessary and good for you. The brain washing goes deep.

      Also, all y’all are fat as fuck. It’s truly freaky what we kids considered “fat” vs. what people today call “fat”.

      Pro tip: Exercise won’t drop pounds, but do it anyway! Also, it’s OK, even desirable, to be low-key hungry.

      • Lenny@lemmy.world
        41·
        9 months ago

        Keto taught me amazing lessons about fat. I just had to unlearn shoving cheese and bacon in my mouth all the time when I quit it.

      • sbv@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        I’m in your cohort.

        Every time I eat fatty meat, I’m pretty sure it’s gonna kill me. And part of me thinks it’s perfectly fine to throw back sugary drinks and treats.

        Those fuckers have a lot to answer for.

    • Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com
      9·
      9 months ago

      Yeah wild times, those cigarette commercials too man, “doesn’t take your breath away” with two tennisplayer girls smoking…

      • TheDankHold@kbin.social
        11·
        9 months ago

        Nope. Still propaganda. It has a negative cultural connotation but any form of persuasive rhetoric fits the basic definition of propaganda.

      • Ultraviolet@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        9 months ago

        Of course they didn’t. Do you think the body metabolizing sugar like any other calorie source and storing it as fat is new information that was completely unknown to science in the 1960s? You think they knew how to split the atom and go to the moon, but not the single most basic fact about nutrition?

      • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        31·
        9 months ago

        Have you ever smoked cigarettes? You know something’s up in the first month—you can feel them “taking your breath away”.

  • xx3rawr@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    391·
    9 months ago

    Only 18 calories per teaspoon and it’s all energy

    Yeah, that’s what calories are measuring…

    • FiskFisk33@startrek.website
      8·
      9 months ago

      the false implication being that calories of energy are somehow better than “calories of fat”. Though since they don’t say it out loud they can mislead people without technically lying.

    • ares35@kbin.social
      121·
      9 months ago

      i’ll have two double quarters, large fries, two apple pies, large chocolate shake…

      and a diet coke.

    • Kittenstix@lemmy.world
      5·
      9 months ago

      I dont know how people do it, every sugar alternatives I’ve tried taste like ass: sucralose, aspartame, acesulfame potassium, saccharin, all of them are fucking disgusting.

      I’d say sucralose is the most pernicious, I’ve bought things not labeled as no sugar(Asian countries LOVE using it in random shit) and as soon as that aftertaste hits I gag.

      • The Dark Lord ☑️@lemmy.ca
        7·
        9 months ago

        It’s best to just change your palette so it doesn’t need sugary tastes anyway. If you don’t want sugar substitutes, just change your diet so your body doesn’t expect sweet things at all. That’s a great move.

        • sebsch@discuss.tchncs.de
          31·
          9 months ago

          This is the way!

          Same with coffee or tea. The moment you find the good stuff you easily see there is neither need for sugar nor milk in both of them.

          • The Dark Lord ☑️@lemmy.ca
            1·
            9 months ago

            Everyone looks at me strangely when I ask for 0% sugar in my bubble tea. The pearls already have sugar in them, and when your palette changes, you can taste the tea and milk so much clearer rather than having all of that covered up by the taste of sugar.

      • DrMango@lemmy.world
        1·
        9 months ago

        Tbh attempting to replace sugar with “sugar alternatives” is part of the problem. The other part of the problem is that commercial goods are sold with a fuckton of super sugar (high fructose corn syrup et al.) added to them which is completely unnecessary. If you just try to get your sugar from natural sources and try to eat some fiber with it (whole fruit is perfect for this) you’re on the right track.

        The short version is simply: don’t drink your sweets

      • No_Eponym@lemmy.ca
        1·
        9 months ago

        And when I’m about to be overcome with feelings of existential dread and rage at the patriarchy, I just reach for my box of Bisquick™

        • lars@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
          2·
          9 months ago

          Wait this was supposed to be rhetorical needling at ancient propaganda and now you are personally attacking me and my little box 🧐

  • max@feddit.nl
    12·
    9 months ago

    Got milk?
    Or the Dutch “Melk is goed voor elk” (“milk is good for anyone”). Same vibe, different era.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
    91·
    9 months ago

    The cure for fat time … Fatter time! … It’ll be a race to determine how fast you can get fatter or how rapid we can make your heart pump

  • BringMeTheDiscoKing@lemmy.caEnglish
    7·
    9 months ago

    You look weak. I recommend you drink some 36% cream. It will give you energy and you won’t need that exercise nonsense.

  • tygerprints@kbin.social
    5·
    9 months ago

    Now, it turns out, bacon is actually good for you in moderation. Turns out it has the same Omega 3 fat found in healthy fish and other foods, so now they’re saying, a healthy diet should include bacon. And sugar, well - a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, so we do need some sugar in our diet also.

  • jaschen@lemm.ee
    72·
    9 months ago

    The fat time of day: youre really hungry and reacy to eat twoof everything, Here’s how sugar can help. “If sugar can fill that bollow feling. 'm all for it.” The fat time of day’" is when you’re over-hungry and want to overcat. Thať’s when your appestat" is turned up high. To turn your appestat back to low, take a little sugar in a soft drink, or a candy bar, shortly before mealtime. Sugar turns into encrgy faster than any other food. Sugar helps keep your appetite down, your encrgy up -and-helps slip you safcly past the “fat timc of day.” Sugar…only 18 calories per teaspoon, and it’s all energy. *"A neural center in the bypothbalamus believed to regulate appetite. "– Webster’s Third New International Dictionary. TIME, JULY 25, 1969 Busy holidays coming up? Handy new recipe bookler. “Desserts by the Clock,” fits fixing time to e and handling POStage and vOur Sugar Information P.O. Box 2664, Grand Central Station, New York, New York 10o1 3