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💫Allison Cassandra Ashtear🏳️‍⚧️🔞 @jayeallisonashtear.bsky.social

"We can at least work with RFK Jr. on banning food dyes!" Why? To what end? All it would do is give him a win, while not actually materially improving anything for anyone.

aug 24, 2025, 12:22 am • 75 2

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Heidi in Montana @inmontana.bsky.social

But ... but ... real sugar in Coke? Fries in beef tallow? Those are game changers for the health of the country we can all get behind, surely. 😬

aug 24, 2025, 1:47 pm • 1 0 • view
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ianbobmorris.bsky.social @ianbobmorris.bsky.social

If certain people said 1+1=2 I would not say they were right, they just happened to say something that was not completely wrong

aug 24, 2025, 12:27 am • 0 0 • view
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Buttadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social

don't get me started on "ultra-processed foods"

aug 24, 2025, 12:22 am • 46 0 • view
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💫Allison Cassandra Ashtear🏳️‍⚧️🔞 @jayeallisonashtear.bsky.social

It is such a totally meaningless term! It's pure, pure vibes.

aug 24, 2025, 12:30 am • 41 0 • view
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Nathan Lewis @nlewis1111.bsky.social

Sugar, in general, is bad though. Maybe there is some agreement there?

aug 24, 2025, 6:10 am • 0 0 • view
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💫Allison Cassandra Ashtear🏳️‍⚧️🔞 @jayeallisonashtear.bsky.social

Agreement on what? Sugar tastes good. People should consume it in moderation. That’s it.

aug 24, 2025, 6:13 am • 40 0 • view
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Jon @jonvr.bsky.social

Thank you. Sugar is not BAD. That take always kills me. Sugar, in some instances, is GOOD.

aug 24, 2025, 6:17 pm • 5 0 • view
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Dan Jago @dj1au.bsky.social

very few

aug 24, 2025, 11:13 pm • 1 0 • view
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Jon @jonvr.bsky.social

For people who excerise/train there is an abundance of evidence that sugar post workout is the fastest/best way to restore glycogen stores and aid recovery.

aug 24, 2025, 11:20 pm • 2 0 • view
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Dan Jago @dj1au.bsky.social

and for everyone else who never do any exercise?

aug 24, 2025, 11:30 pm • 0 0 • view
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Jon @jonvr.bsky.social

Its still not that sugar is actively bad, its that excess calories can be unhealthy. Moderate sugar intake is perfectly fine depending on diet, goals, etc etc.

aug 25, 2025, 1:30 am • 1 0 • view
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Degory made hats @degorius.bsky.social

I would be dead a week ago when my nondiabetic glucose plunged to 40 without sugar.

aug 25, 2025, 1:11 am • 2 0 • view
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Answermancer @answermancer.bsky.social

Yeah but why would anyone do that to themselves when they can instead... not

aug 24, 2025, 11:24 pm • 0 0 • view
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Jon @jonvr.bsky.social

General health and quality of life when I get old. And I kinda like it!

aug 25, 2025, 1:31 am • 1 0 • view
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Buttadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social

it's awful when you want salt since it looks the same and then your fries are sticky and weird

aug 24, 2025, 11:13 pm • 1 0 • view
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Jon @jonvr.bsky.social

Im actually good with this.

aug 24, 2025, 11:20 pm • 1 0 • view
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Buttadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social

I had a friend who put sugar on our fries in middle school by accident and it was so bad we couldn't look him in the eye the rest of the day

aug 24, 2025, 11:22 pm • 1 0 • view
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💫Allison Cassandra Ashtear🏳️‍⚧️🔞 @jayeallisonashtear.bsky.social

what if u put strawberry syrup on the fries tho

aug 25, 2025, 12:28 am • 1 0 • view
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Numbcat9 @numbcat9.bsky.social

Fantastic as a rocket fuel, just add liquid oxygen, for instance.

aug 24, 2025, 8:35 pm • 0 0 • view
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Nathan Lewis @nlewis1111.bsky.social

Ehh...

aug 24, 2025, 6:14 am • 0 0 • view
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💫Allison Cassandra Ashtear🏳️‍⚧️🔞 @jayeallisonashtear.bsky.social

Ehh what?

aug 24, 2025, 6:19 am • 7 0 • view
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Nathan Lewis @nlewis1111.bsky.social

Nevermind. I agree.

aug 24, 2025, 6:19 am • 0 0 • view
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Dan Jago @dj1au.bsky.social

But real cane sugar is so much better than corn syrup.🙄

aug 24, 2025, 11:12 pm • 3 0 • view
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Buttadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social

it's not really that different

aug 24, 2025, 11:14 pm • 1 0 • view
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Dan Jago @dj1au.bsky.social

aug 24, 2025, 11:16 pm • 1 0 • view
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Buttadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social

They both make things sweeter, which is often desirable, I've never really understood the battle

aug 24, 2025, 11:17 pm • 1 0 • view
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Dan Jago @dj1au.bsky.social

perception

aug 24, 2025, 11:19 pm • 0 0 • view
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ianbobmorris.bsky.social @ianbobmorris.bsky.social

This is America where we are in thrall to the corn god, 🌽 🌽 🌽

aug 24, 2025, 11:17 pm • 3 0 • view
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ianbobmorris.bsky.social @ianbobmorris.bsky.social

That Stuff is just making an eating disorder into politics, step one would be defining what it included and then why they were bad and how and then you would need to have stuff that could be done beyond the person buying food should have more money to buy better food

aug 24, 2025, 12:30 am • 6 0 • view
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josephzander.bsky.social @josephzander.bsky.social

We need to get people off those horrible, factory-frozen reheatable pizzas and onto fresh, healthy hand-made pizzas.

aug 24, 2025, 1:30 pm • 1 0 • view
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Ed Tracey @ed-tracey.bsky.social

Plus, he may *talk* about banning artificial dyes. But the Donor Class will prevail on the Administration to keep it in the talking stage.

aug 24, 2025, 2:29 pm • 0 0 • view