Pop vs Cigarettes

[Insidious Von]

This is only my observation, do your own background research. In terms of terminating a life, pop is more dangerous than cigarettes.

I've turned the corner on my self - rehab, although it has been a slow progress. Due to the pandemic, professional coronary rehab has been suspended, I've been doing it on my own. As a chronic smoker I survived a heart attack - although getting injected with Delaudid helped. My younger brother was addicted to Coke (the fizzy kind), he was diagnosed with cancer in Nov 2019, he passed away at the end of May 2020. His passing caused me to disregard my health and smoke more.

I knew he had cancer for almost seven years but the oncologist told him it was benign. He had it in his small intestines, it was very large and he had trouble controlling his weight. The only way he could have developed a tumor in that part of the body was from all the carbonated sugar he was ingesting. In spite of what he was told, he was in a grace period, it expired in the fall of 2019.

Btw, I've never been a fan of Coke, too much sugar. This video is 7 years old.

 

[bazokajoe]

Can't stand smoking. Fucking disgusting.
But I drink coke. Love the stuff.

 

[Insidious Von]

The body produces a lot of cancer cells 99.9% of the time they become food for white blood cells. Smoking is extremely harmful, nicotine helps fat cells to attach to white blood cells, slowing them down from their intended task. I'm not entirely sure about carbonated sugary drinks. Since we are all made of carbon, is the carbonation feeding sugar to cancer cells?

I woke up with a lovely tent this morning. I made radiator pasta with sausage and rapini for lunch on Monday. Rapini is the Galactus of superfoods, it packs four essential vitamins plus high concentrations of calcium, iron and potassium - that's why it tastes bitter. Not sure why Americans call it broccoli rab, maybe it has the same cancer inhibiting compounds as broccoli.

Bobby Flay loves internet cooking maven Laura Vitale. Don't take her recommendation of switching the rapini with baby food (spinach), if the green is too bitter for you.

 

[bazokajoe]

The body produces a lot of cancer cells 99.9% of the time they become food for white blood cells. Smoking is extremely harmful, nicotine helps fat cells to attach to white blood cells, slowing them down from their intended task. I'm not entirely sure about carbonated sugary drinks. Since we are all made of carbon, is the carbonation feeding sugar to cancer cells?

I woke up with a lovely tent this morning. I made radiator pasta with sausage and rapini for lunch on Monday. Rapini is the Galactus of superfoods, it packs four essential vitamins plus high concentrations of calcium, iron and potassium - that's why it tastes bitter. Not sure why Americans call it broccoli rab, maybe it has the same cancer inhibiting compounds as broccoli.

Bobby Flay loves internet cooking maven Laura Vitale.

Looks delicious!

 

[richaceg]

I was bug in soda back in the day....the last soda I had was 8 years ago...smoking was 12byears ago....I only smoke pot here and there....

 

[Insidious Von]

Rocco Siffredi eats lots of rapini before going to the country and eating a lot of peaches.

 

[Insidious Von]

I only smoke pot here and there....

Watching the Euro, I had a massive craving for a cigarette. It didn't help that there were people there smoking, the four draws of a verdura joint saved my life.

I didn't know that after going through the nicotine patch program, the cravings come back heavy.

 

[Insidious Von]

Is this the greatest song ever written?

 

[HungSowel]

I stopped drinking sugar soda about 4 years ago, diet coke and coke zero are enough for me. I recently quit smoking, it was a combination of Champix + nicotine vape that did it. I tried quitting using Champix alone 3 years ago but I only lasted 2 months.

 

[The Oracle]

There's a strong sentiment that cancer uses glucose/sugar as it's fuel. So therefore if you cut out all dietary sugar you can halt the growth of cancer.

Now an oncologist will most likely not agree with this. But at the same time their educational background isn't based in nutrition.

The sugar industry is huge. And they have a strong lobby. HFCS (high fructose corn syrup) is probably one of the worst things we can consume and it's conveniently hid in most ultra processed foods. Fructose is touted by many as just plain evil in its effects on metabolic disorders.

Diabetes and pre diabetes are rampant in western adults and getting worse in children. A lot of people are walking around with pre diabetes and they don't even know it. A blood test measuring your HbA1c can help to determine your risk.

Ben Bikman, PhD is a professor of pathophysiology and biomedical scientist whose research agenda focuses on the molecular mediators of obesity and its co-morbidities. He's got some great stuff on YouTube for those interested.

 

[Insidious Von]

I knew something was wrong with my brother.

He was leading the good life but couldn't control his weigh, he drank too much coke. While I had to manage diabetes for years he never got it. It was strange, something malevolent was eating the sugar. He was diagnosed with a form of sarcoma in a part of his body that could not be controlled. A pox on the Cola producers. Mexican Coke is actually slightly better for you, it's made with cane sugar. North American Coke is made with corn syrup, a diabetes supercharger...if you're lucky, as with my brother, it could be much worse.

 

[Insidious Von]

My favorite dish used to be sausage, rapini on a bed of polenta. I'm not making that much polenta anymore. I'm of the impression, if I didn't have diabetes I'd eat much less of the vegetable.

 

[Insidious Von]

Pickled turnip also lowers blood sugar, you'll see them as the pink slivers when you order shawarma. Mystery solved, rapini is related to turnip, not broccoli.

I hate the name broccoli rabe!

 

[Butler1000]

Thankfully I quit smoking over 5 years ago. Still recovering a bit but feeling better. Pop is basically gone from my life. I keep a bit of ginger ale for rye and about a once every 2 month craving for one. Not doing any fast food helps with that. A lot.

An occasional craving for root beer occurs as well.

My big thing is cold brewed ice tea. Using loose leaf flavoured teas with fruit infusions. No sugar added. Taste great.

 

[Spunky1]

My sincere condolences on the loss of your brother.

 

[xix]

Second the loss on your brother.
Fat, Sick and near dead.

 

[Insidious Von]

Thank you for the warm regards gentlemen, sono commosso.

Still smokeless, it was easy while I was on the nicotine patch, no so much after I finished the program. I was told that certain toxic agents makes the pleasure neurons in your brain hypersensitive. If nicotine is not replaced with another stimulant, psychological to the point of physical pain occurs. So I looked into why I enjoy going to the theater so much - popcorn. Its only been since last week that I stopped eating popcorn daily, the nic fits are becoming far less intense.

 

[Robert Mugabe]

Rocco Siffredi eats lots of rapini before going to the country and eating a lot of peaches.

Thanks for the hygiene tips Rocco. Don't shit on the white leather couch. Kind of reminds me of a joke I heard somewhere......

THE ITALIAN WHO WENT TO NEW YORK One day Ima go to New York to a bigga Hotel. I go down to eat soma breakfast. I tella the waitress I wanna two piss toast. She branqa me only wona piss. I tell her I wanna two piss, she say go to the toilet, I say you no understand. I wanna two piss on my plate. She says you better not piss on my plate you sonna ma bitch! I don't even know the lady and she call me sonna ma bitch. Later, I go to eat somalunch at Emma's Restaurant, the waitress bringa me a spoon, ana knife, but no fock. I tella her I wanna fock. She tell sa me everybody wona fock. I tella her, you no understand, I wanna fock on the table. She says you better not fock on the table, you sonna ma bitch. I don't even know the lady and she call me a sonna ma bitch. So I go back to my romm inna Hotel, an there's no sheet on my bed. I calla the manager ana tell him I wanna sheet. He tells me to go to the toilet, so I say you no understand I wanna sheet on the bed. He say you better not sheet on the bed, you sonna ma bitch. I don't even know the man ana he calls me a sonna ma bitch. I go to check out and the man at the desk, he say peace to you. I say piss onna you too, you sonna ma bitch. I go back to Italy!

 

[kherg007]

As Dean Wormer wisely advised: "Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son."

Coca cola, particularly with the high fructose corn syrup, is a problem. But cigs are definitely worse.

 

[richaceg]

But get this....I started smoking when I was 12...a few sticks here and there...I was 12...I can't afford cigarettes...me and my friends usually pool our money and just smoke when we hang out on the woods...and back then as a kid, you don't realize the addiction...you only smoke because it's curiosity and it's cool...HS was the same...but college is when it got worst...half my allowance are spent on cigarettes (i'm just glad i'm not a big drinker too) My aunt died of lung cancer through 2nd hand (her husband was chain smoker and still alive and with cancer as well)...when my first child was born...is when i decide to quit...can't have it around family...I told myself I need some type of distraction...my friend walked me to basspro for some hunting gear but really caught my eye on a kayak and fishing rod...they were showing a video of some dude kayak fishing....that was the last day I took a cigarette...took it out of my system without the aid of a nicotine patch...