HAY GUISE! - The Ed Anger Deathwatch Thread

[grumbler]

Well he lives in the US. I imagine, if you eat careful you are still taking in a truckload of sugar a day.

Yep.  When the Americans started sugarating the water supply, they knew this would happen.

And to this day sugar water is the top seller....

Among people who "eat careful" as Tamas is arguing?  I'd need a cite for that "fact."

[Tamas]

I am sorry grumbler it was just meant as a joke, I have no desire to "debate" it.

[The Brain]

grumbler wins again!

[grumbler]

I am sorry grumbler it was just meant as a joke, I have no desire to "debate" it.

Oh.  A joke.  Ha.   Ha.  What.  a.  knee.  slapper.

I have no desire to "debate" your sense of humor, either.

[crazy canuck]

Well he lives in the US. I imagine, if you eat careful you are still taking in a truckload of sugar a day.

Yep.  When the Americans started sugarating the water supply, they knew this would happen.

And to this day sugar water is the top seller....

Among people who "eat careful" as Tamas is arguing?  I'd need a cite for that "fact."

No, obviously not the careful eaters.  But for the 50% or so who drink sugared water on a daily basis, the results are predictable.

[grumbler]

No, obviously not the careful eaters.  But for the 50% or so who drink sugared water on a daily basis, the results are predictable.

Okay.  Great insight, there.  Thanks. 

It's not 50%, according to the CDC, it is 30% among adults and just over 20% among high schoolers, but that's a quibble.  It's too much even if we don't exaggerate.

[crazy canuck]

No, obviously not the careful eaters.  But for the 50% or so who drink sugared water on a daily basis, the results are predictable.

Okay.  Great insight, there.  Thanks. 

It's not 50%, according to the CDC, it is 30% among adults and just over 20% among high schoolers, but that's a quibble.  It's too much even if we don't exaggerate.

50% drink soft drinks daily.  The quibble you raised is with "sugared".  It is an accurate quibble but doesn't detract from the fact that 50% of Americans drink a soda of some description daily.
Which goes back to your sarcastic statement that when Americans added sugar to their water, they knew what they were in for.  Which, it turns out, is actually pretty accurate - or at least it is pretty obvious what would happen.

[Valmy]

Not every soft drink has sugar though.

Besides hard drinks have sugar by definition and lots of people drink those to.

[Tamas]

I am sorry Ed.

[crazy canuck]

Not every soft drink has sugar though.

Yes, that is what made Grumbler's quibble accurate

[grumbler]

50% drink soft drinks daily.  The quibble you raised is with "sugared".  It is an accurate quibble but doesn't detract from the fact that 50% of Americans drink a soda of some description daily.
Which goes back to your sarcastic statement that when Americans added sugar to their water, they knew what they were in for.  Which, it turns out, is actually pretty accurate - or at least it is pretty obvious what would happen.

I have no idea what argument you are trying to make here.  The CDC uses "Sugar-sweetened beverages" or SSB to mean all drinks that have added sugar.  Tea, Coffee, Soda, etc.  You use "soft drinks," which isn't what the CDC uses.  The 50% figure is for SSB.  Where you get the 50% soda figure, I don't know and don't really care. 

Which goes back to my sarcastic comment that people who eat carefully really don't consume truckloads of sugar every day. 

[Razgovory]

 

[crazy canuck]

Where you get the 50% soda figure, I don't know and don't really care. 

You don't care but for shits and giggles

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/25/half-of-americans-drink-soda-everyday-consumption_n_1699540.html

[The Minsky Moment]

Non-sugar (diet) sodas are about 1/4 of the market.

[crazy canuck]

Non-sugar (diet) sodas are about 1/4 of the market.

right, which is why Grumbler's quibble was accurate.