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Why do people act like coffee in the morning is such a sacred routine but soda in the morning [basically the same drink] is lowbrow and unhealthy? (self.casualconversation)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by _number8_ to c/casualconversation

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like, it's caffeine and water and brown, who cares. i drink diet soda so it's no calories, no sugar. versus the stereotype starbucks order, why is soda so demonized

the whole sort of basically woo stuff about oh there's antioxidants there which give you a 3% lower risk of skin cancer after the age of 65 like come on that doesn't count

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The distinction between natural and artificial is just as arbitrary. All the "plant derived" non-sugar sweeteners taste super weird to me and some give me a headache

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Exactly. That's just marketing to groom the naturalistic fallacy.