sugar alcohols

not actual alcohol...  no those stupid sweeteners that are supposed to replace calories but not the sweet taste people think they can't live with out.

Stevia, Sorbitol...

The list isn't short and the market is huge.  Lets replace "sugar" with something either cheaper (HFCS) 'better' agave/rice syrup/____ or lower calorie, saccharine, nutra-sweet, stevia, truvia, moronia, _____

Sugar.

Sugar.

What to do with you sugar.

Recently i've been kind of tossed into the mix of these replacements when i tried the Hammer Fizz stuff on the RdR 3.0  It 'worked' in that I dropped a tab in my water bottle at the pit stop and then didn't cramp.  BUT that shit fizzed and pressurized the bottles.  Shooting 'electrolyte' and sugar alcohol loaded water all over the place. Kind of messy.  Why the fuck would you make something fizzy that goes into a container that normally gets sealed, or at least closed?  WHAT IS THE POINT?  Marketing genius I tell you.  Disconnect between the idea people and the end users?  Sure leave the top open till it is dissolved.  Yeah that works when you have time to prep it all.

No problems with that stuff except the after taste and the 'mouth feel'  I didn't like it.

Then a team mate gave me a NUUN tablet.  This guy is addicted to this stuff.  He gave me a grape one.  It was pretty horridly flavored and then it messed with my saliva and never really went down right and just was nasty at effort.  Yuck.  That weird aftertaste was there too.  Consistent reports suggest that the sugar alcohols are what cause that feeling of yuckiness.

Some people like it.  I think it is dumb.

Then the Atlantic popped out a tweet with this link: http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/05/how-natural-is-stevia/257882/

Dig through there.  Crazy stuff.  Sure most of it can be extracted with Ethanol.  But unlike Olive Oil from Italy you don't know how it is extracted from the packaging.

Then old Plummer made a comment that nailed it.  Succinct to the point of inspiration (aka writing something down here).

 The money invested in this bullshit is mind blowing. For what - so fatasses can maintain their shitty eating habits.

The truth.  Not just eating habits but drinking habits.

I know that if I just kept using these sugar alcohol containing products I would get used to it.  Just like drinking diet soda, after a while you get used to it and it seems normal.  We humans have amazing tolerance for weird unnatural shit.  Adaptable.

Rather than adapting to being an unheathly pile of cancer prone human, fix your shit and get used to doing it the right way.  Get used to eating foods without adding sugar.  Don't like coffee w/o sugar? Well if you have to have coffee, keep drinking it w/o sugar and cream and after a week, maybe two if you're wicked stubborn, you'll never miss the sugar.  A couple weeks of work for a life time of gain.

Break the habit cycle.  Which is all it is.  A habit.  Smokers don't notice the negative effects.  Give a cigarette to a non-smoker and ask them to describe the negatives.  They'll give you a long list.  None of which a habitual smoker will even recognize anymore.

Food.  Habits.  Soda.  The same as smoking.  Just as deadly.  Just as cumulative.  No, by eating like a carefree dumbass, you aren't going to die right away, and no smoking a pack a day or a pack a week won't make you keel over w/in a month or two, but is the price down the road worth it?  Most people have accepted that the long term impact of smoking on your health and survivability isn't worth smoking.

Soon, maybe people will come to realize that eating shitty processed foods is absolutely and unequivocally equal in every way to smoking.

Now here's the really baffling thing.  Smoking problems aren't really all that visible from the outside.  Yet it is societally accepted as bad.  Food problems? how are they manifested?  IN GETTING FAT!  Um.  Yeah. So.  Confounding.

Bluntly all this work in 'substitutes' 'fake stuff' is just so lazyasses can maintain their shitty eating habits.  Vegans with textured soy protein chicken nuggets ain't get no free pass.  Still fake.  Skip that shit.  Same mentality.  Same behavior.

Eat real food.  Seriously.  It isn't that complicated.  If you want desert, have desert, just not every night, and NO FUCKING FAKE STUFF.

Double churned Vanilla Ice Cream? Oh it has half the fat? Great.  What does it have in it?  Milk? Cream? Sugar? Vanilla?  IT SHOULD HAVE NOTHING ELSE IN IT. Oh wait.  It has other stuff? Oh.

good.

Ice cream so simple.  $60 gets you how much ice cream lately?  10 quart tubs of crap? 10 Pints of high end stuff? Or you get one of these.  Grab and extra freezer bowl if you want to make lots at once.

Then what?  BUY GOOD STUFF.
Milk 2 cups
Sugar yeah the good white stuff - or the raw stuff or something: 3/4 cup
Cream 1 cup of that organic valley heavy cream
2 teaspoons of real vanilla (no HFCS mckormics crap)

I use organic whole milk and dissolve the 365 vegan cane sugar in there in a jar in the fridge. When sugar is dissolved mix the cream and vanilla together, I use the Madagascar stuff from Trade Joes.

Put it in the maker, turn it on.  25 minutes later you have a bit more than a quart of the best Vanilla Ice cream you will ever have.

MADE OUT OF GOOD SHIT THAT WON'T BREAK THE BANK.  Cheap Good.

All you have to do is invest a few minutes of time and effort.  Or in my families case, take advantage of MY willingness to do it for them.  Given the choice I think my wife would probably  just by the ice cream from the store vs going through the effort to make it.  Oh well.  As demonstrated by my family, you only need one person in the house to give enough of a shit.

Fucking language in this post.

horrible.

Accepted sweeteners to have in a pantry to add to your food.
SUGAR
MAPLE SYRUP
HONEY

hmmm

yeah that's about it.  I'm okay with the brown rice syrup that Cliff uses, at least more so as a convenient energy source compared to the alternatives out there.

Enough ranting for the day.

Do the right thing,  but if you don't and I find out, I'm gonna get in your face, or at least get in your brain and make you think about how wrong it is what you're doing...

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