25 of 30 - Zero Calories!

[aggienaut]

   Zero calories! Zero carbs! Sugar free!! What IS in this stuff*? I am highly distrustful of anything that is zero calories or sugar free (that should normally have sugar in it). Personally, I take "zero calories" or "sugar free!" as an automatic veto on buying a product. But then again, I'm someone who once saw a headline about how chili cheese fries are one of the worst things you can eat and felt inspired by it to buy them for lunch that day.

   I feel like health food junkies are moving in two completely opposite directions. Organic and [everything]-free. ____-free food is patently "non-organic" -- naturally occurring sugars or calories have been replaced by complicated synthetic formulations engineered to mimic the original. Yet the same people who are religious about getting their organic food will happily put their sugar/calorie/carb-free food-like synthetic in the same re-usable hemp grocery bag with their organic multi-grain bread**.

   And the calories thing. Sure you probably shouldn't be eating 3000 calorie chili cheese fries, being as you're only supposed to eat 2000 calories a day. But you ARE supposed to eat 2000 calories a day so are you really injesting so much material that you have to eat zero calorie foods so it doesn't edge you over that limit? Food is supposed to have calories! If it doesn't.. it's not food!

*(phenylalamine apparently)
** by the way do you know how many cute little furry animals were killed by the grain harvester? a lot. But thank god no one sprayed (organic) pyrethrum on those plants first.


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Comments

[failaga.livejournal.com]

But then again, I'm someone who once saw a headline about how chili cheese fries are one of the worst things you can eat and felt inspired by it to buy them for lunch that day.<<<


This also made ME want chili cheese fries ):

[furzicle.livejournal.com]

In answer to the Echidna Media's rant against calorie free food, I must stand up for the freedom to buy and drink calorie free drinks, as the previous writer has done. When I was diagnosed with Type II diabetes I didn't weep for the chocolate cake, (well, yeah, OK, a little) or for candy filled ice cream, or even too much for the baked potatoes I wasn't s'posed to eat anymore. The thing that killed me the most was the ban on fruit juice. Even milk has too much sugar in it. So, though I had never been a soda drinker, I began eventually to drink calorie free soda.

But, basically, I agree with you. One day when I was cruising the freezer aisle at the grocery store to stock up on frozen dinners for the soon-to-be abandoned husband, (I was leaving for a hiking trip)I discovered that the no-calorie marketing tool has even extended into the real food segment of the market. What's the point of spending MORE MONEY to buy LESS FOOD? Since this was a husband we're talking about here, (and not a fat one, I hasten to add,) I soon altered my shopping habits to looking for the labels admitting to having MORE calories. Forget this 300 calorie dinner shiznaz!

[jennelle137.livejournal.com]

I agree with you. If figure if I want the soda, it should at least have real sugar in it, instead of some chemical slurry.

[fsk8ing-judge.livejournal.com]

With the exception of people with an actual physical health risk in place for ingesting too much sugar, I agree with this post. I do eat healthy and organic as much as humanly possible, but for me it's a matter of principal--I refuse to ingest a product that has been chemically manipulated just so I can have something akin to a splurge. Just give me the real thing, be it the random cheeseburger or Butterfinger bar at times, and my body will deal with it.
People ask me why I started eating organic and watching what I ate a bit more carefully. My answer was always the same: I was beginning to feel like a subsidiary of the Dow Chemical Company.