Why would drinking more add to someone's weight problems?

Post #26,015 by CRConrad 1/28/02 3:05:14 AM Reply	Why would drinking more add to someone's weight problems? There are absolutely no calories in water. Christian R. Conrad The Man Who Knows Fucking Everything
Post #26,016 by altmann 1/28/02 3:14:11 AM Reply	Soda Pop -- Chris Altmann
Post #26,017 by CRConrad 1/28/02 3:17:43 AM Reply	Then don't drink soda, Pop! Drink water. McDonalds' have water, don't they? Christian R. Conrad The Man Who Knows Fucking Everything
Post #26,020 by wharris2 1/28/02 3:52:17 AM Reply	Re: Then don't drink soda, Pop! McDonald's also has iced tea, which I usually drink at restaurants and fast-food joints. If unsweetened, it gives the boring water some flavor. (And, depending upon the water supply, may make the water drinkable. I've been places where the water is just dreadful.) "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." -- Donald Knuth
Post #26,045 by nking 1/28/02 10:23:14 AM Reply	But there is in sugar water Take a 32 ounce Cocacola, and get a few refills. It is mostly sugar and water. The water combines with the sodium to make fat in the body. Need I say any more about clogged arteries, high chloresteral, and other stuff the food causes? "Will code Visual BASIC for cash."
Post #26,136 by CRConrad 1/28/02 5:08:51 PM Reply	Hint: Then DON'T FRICKING DRINK sugar water, Brainiac! Norm gibbers on: Take a 32 ounce Cocacola, and get a few refills. It is mostly sugar and water. And that's supposed to mean anything to me?!? (Further hint: Your weird units are meaningless to most of the civilized world. "32 ounce", is that about the same as a furlong per fortnight?) The water combines with the sodium to make fat in the body. That's a new one... (Care to show me the chemical formula -- or better yet, one of those little balls-and-toothpicks molecule models -- for a "fat" that consists of hydrogen, oxygen, and sodium, but no carbon?) Need I say any more about clogged arteries, high chloresteral, and other stuff the food causes? No, you don't. In fact, you don't need to say ANYTHING about "chloresteral". (What you do need to do, though, is to learn how to spell "cholesterol"...) Christian R. Conrad The Man Who Knows Fucking Everything
Post #26,152 by Another Scott 1/28/02 5:41:50 PM Reply	32 fluid ounces is about 0.02313 Firkins. HTH. >:-)
Post #26,184 by Ashton 1/28/02 8:21:43 PM Reply	Then a Firkin per fortnight necessitates 37+ containers of sugar water per day of the '32 oz' persuasion (ounces are used in countries unable to multiply or divide by 10, easily). I suspect that this amount.. might do approximately what it does to light metals: corrode, erode the pipes.. and might even explain the new popular disease here: diabetes (?) Ashton your Firkin moderator for tonight.
Post #26,376 by nking 1/29/02 3:05:53 PM Reply	32 oz is about 2 pounds. Then take those 2 pounds and turn them into Kilograms by whatever "magic math" formula it takes to do so. ~2.2 pounds per Kilogram, so almost 1 full Kilogram, over a Kilogram if they gt a refill. Also I had forgotten that soda uses CO2 to get the fizz in it. Even the water has traces of CO2 in it, carbonated water, because they use it to mix with the syrup to make soda. Sometimes if the machine isn't set up properly, there are traces of CO2 in the water they give. Litely carbonated water. "Will code Visual BASIC for cash."
Post #26,397 by a6l6e6x 1/29/02 4:21:56 PM Reply	But the 2 pounds of the water part are transient! :) Alex "Of course, you realize this means war." -B. Bunny
Post #26,436 by nking 1/29/02 7:28:08 PM Reply	A little secret about McDonald's and other fast food joints: The soda is their biggest rip-off, it is mostly water and most likely costs them only pennies to pump it into a cup. But they can charge $1USD or more for it. US Soda is like US Beer, very light and mostly water. :) "Will code Visual BASIC for cash."
Post #26,370 by nking 1/29/02 2:58:14 PM Reply	I don't, dear Christian, but the average consumer does. They also get at least 2 or 3 refills when at the fast food joint. I used to drink soda like water, then moved to diet soda, now I try to drink mostly water. Only problem is when I ask for water they give me a dinky 6Oz kiddie cup or charge me 15 to 35 cents for the cup. But they will sell me a bottle of spring water for $1USD to $2USD. The carbon comes from the food, aren't most life forms carbon based? Excuse me for not spelling it correctly, but most fast food stores do sell high carb foods that are also high in cholesterol, however you spell it. Unhealthy, and not clearly marked as unhealthy. "Will code Visual BASIC for cash."
Post #26,411 by CRConrad 1/29/02 5:09:39 PM Reply	Then it wasn't you I was calling "Brainiac", but... Norman: but the average consumer does. ...then it's the "average consumer" I mean. They also get at least 2 or 3 refills when at the fast food joint. Really? On a 32-ounce drink? Damn, I find that hard to believe... Only problem is when I ask for water they give me a dinky 6Oz kiddie cup or charge me 15 to 35 cents for the cup. That sucks. (OTOH, maybe they do that here too -- I dunno; I'm still at the "Diet Soda" stage myself.) The carbon comes from the food, aren't most life forms carbon based? Yeah, all of them AFAIK. (But you said "drink" or something! Sorry, I was just nit-picking in jest. :-) Excuse me for not spelling it correctly, but But spelling is important. Unhealthy, and not clearly marked as unhealthy. Yeah, but with food it doesn't work that way, does it? Seems to me you have to assume that everything is (more or less) unhealthy. Only if it is specifically labelled as healthy do you possibly have any recourse, in case it turns out not to be. If it isn't, then it isn't. That is, if it isn't labelled as "healthy", then it isn't healthy, as far as you can know or expect. Christian R. Conrad The Man Who Knows Fucking Everything
Post #26,437 by nking 1/29/02 7:37:32 PM Reply	Just don't call me late to dinner. :) Yes I know, my friend, who killed himself in 1999, used to tell me that the 32 ounce drink was a Bladder-Buster. This was back in the early 80's when 7-11 had their 32 once Big Gulp and Fast Food joints didn't have anything over 24 ounces. He figured that the average human bladder could not hold more than 24 ounces. But I told him that he forgot how much the human stomach can hold on the backflow. :) But anyway it will require at least two trips to the bathroom if they get those 2 or 3 refills. There are bigger than 32 ounce cups as well, like 48 and 64, but I won't get into that. I imagine that soon, they will sell a cup so large that it will take a rental on a helicopter to get it home. :) Movie Theaters also started this trend. They figured that if they doubled the size of the popcorn or drink that they could triple the price. Then they raised the price of the smaller popcorn and drink products so that it was more economical to buy the larger sizes. The average US citizen is a consumer cow, and will buy whatever they are told to buy. Spelling is unimportant to me, it is the content of the message. One can have perfect spelling, yet have crap for content. Anyway people are suing tobacco companies for not putting warning labels on their products over 50 years ago. I guess it was recently, like 30 or 40 years ago that they put the "May cause cancer on lab rats" labels on them? Plus people have sued fast food joints over coffee being too hot, why not for their unhealthy food? Healthy(er) food like Subway or Blimpies are better, but are basically cold cuts on a hero/subway sandwich bread. "Will code Visual BASIC for cash."
Post #26,413 by CRConrad 1/29/02 5:11:29 PM 1/29/02 5:15:02 PM Reply	This was a duplicate posting; please disregard What, don't believe me? Nothing to see here; move along, please! :-) Edited by CRConrad Jan. 29, 2002, 05:15:02 PM EST Expand All History
Post #26,202 by a6l6e6x 1/28/02 9:55:26 PM 1/28/02 10:07:25 PM Reply	Norm's 32 oz. Coke == 373 calories (from sugars). An insulin rush will convert that to fat. The body is perfectly capable of making fat, none need be ingested to have it. That's why the "fat-free food" fad is a crock. At least, he should drink the Diet Cola. Alex Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. -- Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) Edited by a6l6e6x Jan. 28, 2002, 10:07:25 PM EST Expand All History
Post #26,226 by Another Scott 1/29/02 12:14:36 AM Reply	I recently calculated the following. 100 C/day = 9 lb/year. Assume you consume 100 calories a day more than you need. Assume all of those calories are converted to fat. 9 calories = 1 g of fat, so 100 calories = 11.11 g of fat. 11.11 g = 0.024 pounds per day. 0.024 x 365 = 8.9 pounds a year. So simply eating only 100 calories a day more than a person needs will cause them to put on nearly 9 pounds a year. Downing a "Super Big Gulp" a day could easily double or triple that amount. I think that's one reason why it is so easy for so many people to gain weight - it's easy to lose track of a few hundred calories a day. Cheers, Scott.

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