No more aspartame in Diet Pepsi

You know thalidomide is still used today, right?

It was and is an effective drug against certain conditions, just like it had and has devastating side effects in certain populations (like pregnant women).

 

Holy shit! I'd be bouncing off the walls if I took in that much caffeine. I have two cups of Folgers coffee in the morning, and here lately, with my teaching schedule, I've been having a Coke or a half-and-half iced tea two or three times a week. I've had to deliberately cut those out because my heart's been racing.

 

Beer and bourbon, she doesn't blink. This shit? Relentless. Same arguments as Ragu. Maybe she is Ragu.

 

Your two cups of coffee have more caffeine, I bet, than I take in in a day.

I'll cut back some day when my kids reliably permit me 6-7 hours of sleep.

 

I'd estimate my two cups of coffee have between 180 and 200 mg ... there's 45 mg per 12 oz. Diet Coke, so you jump ahead of me somewhere into your fifth one.

Then again I outweigh you by a ... few ... pounds. I'll admit it. I'm a caffeine lightweight.

 

I guess I'd like to know when Ragu thinks the human diet was stable.

He seems to point to a date in the 60's or so when modified ingredients started to be used.

But, except for the rich, the human existence has been riddled with hunger and starvation, drought and war.

Meat and fresh fruits and vegetables? A balanced diet? Who had this until recently?

People, at best, ate locally and seasonally, and diets varied vastly across the globe. You were lucky if you had pickled, dried, salted, or otherwise preserved food to eat.

Only in modern history have the advancements in transportation, farming production, and refrigeration -- both in trucking and in the home -- allowed us to enjoy the abundance of food that is available to us year round, across the country/world.

But, even in my parents generation frozen food and canned food was much more prevalent. Without even considering something like aspartame, the diet I eat today is vastly different from what my parents grew up eating.

 

Ragu is just more wary of unintended consequences than most people.

 

No, the WHITE zone is for loading of passengers and there is no stopping in a BLUE zone.

 

Right. It's been evolving for 100 years.

And, before that, there wasn't enough food to go around. It's the story of human civilization. So, it's never been stable.

We eat more processed food, but we also eat more fresh food.

 

Listen Betty, don't start up with your white zone shit again.