Favourite Simple Things

[cgipson1]

One of the hardest lifestyle changes I have made was giving up Diet Coke.

and you will hopefully live so much longer now! Lab Tests Find Carcinogen in Regular and Diet Coke and Pepsi ~ Newsroom ~ News from CSPI ~ Center for Science in the Public Interest

People who don't indulge in the good tasting things like Diet Coke, chocolate cake or apple pie routinely don't live longer, it just seems that way to them.
In guarding against the possibility of the world breaking in half during dinner, I always eat dessert first.

IMO.. DIET anything tastes like ****! Coke.. I can handle... Chocolate cake, hell yea! Apple pie, sure.. especially with ice cream! I like your dessert philosophy!

When I cook.. I don't use processed crap... but I do not cook healthy, I cook for maximum flavor! I seldom eat bread, but when I do.. I make it, and eat it hot out of the oven, loaded with real butter!

I just hate the artificial crap in so much of our food today, especially the stuff in Diet sodas... nasty stuff!

 

[Compaq]

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Artificial how? Consider sugar, regular sugar. Humans have never relied on this type of sugar to survive. Yet we drown ourselves in coke, pastries, and sweets. This type of sugar does not exist naturally in anything natural humans eat, so I say ditch the sugar and use artificial sugar instead; at least that's not metabolicly active. And to all those of you who are paranoid of lab made sugar, start reading from reliable sources (journal review articles, for example).

I never drink non-diet sodas, and try to choose away sugary stuff.

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p.s. When I visited California, I ate huge amounts if your American donuts. They taste delicious! Norway cannot compete with you there!

 

[PixelRabbit]

[random rant]

Artificial how? Consider sugar, regular sugar. Humans have never relied on this type of sugar to survive. Yet we drown ourselves in coke, pastries, and sweets. This type of sugar does not exist naturally in anything natural humans eat, so I say ditch the sugar and use artificial sugar instead; at least that's not metabolicly active. And to all those of you who are paranoid of lab made sugar, start reading from reliable sources (journal review articles, for example).

I never drink non-diet sodas, and try to choose away sugary stuff.

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p.s. When I visited California, I ate huge amounts if your American donuts. They taste delicious! Norway cannot compete with you there!

I'm not sure about Diet Coke in Norway but here they use Aspartame in it and it is to my understanding metabolically active. My choice was after a lot of research on both sides of the fence, I LOVED my Diet Coke! Since I have issues with my Thyroid I have various health issues that made it in my best interest to choose to eat whole foods as much as I can, I do cheat sometimes but on the whole I shop the perimeter of the grocery store. I did see improvements in my health after I stopped drinking it so I'm calling it the right choice for me

 

[Compaq]

I got the terms mixed up; biochemistryvis not my field (i'm a mere inorganic-chemist-to-be) without calories is what I meant

Good for you! don't overdo the coke thing, though. Little good come from that

 

[cgipson1]

I got the terms mixed up; biochemistryvis not my field (i'm a mere inorganic-chemist-to-be) without calories is what I meant

Good for you! don't overdo the coke thing, though. Little good come from that

I agree that humans eat way too much processed sugar.... it is terrible. Intake has increased immensely in the past 100 years... Whole Health Source: By 2606, the US Diet will be 100 Percent Sugar




I will never advocate eating anything artificial that is a known carcinogen. Talking about rolling the dice... you might as well smoke tobacco!

 

[SCraig]

I will never advocate eating anything artificial that is a known carcinogen. Talking about rolling the dice... you might as well smoke tobacco!

Guess I'm screwed then. I love Coke Zero and I smoke too much

 

[jwbryson1]

"Strange." (this is for men's eyes only...)

 

[snowbear116 47]

Smells: Bacon frying, cinnamon, fresh ground nutmeg, coffee, apples cooking, freshly cut grass.
Sounds: Bacon frying, my cats' purring, a big block Chevy, and when I was at home all day, the sound of the key in the door signalling my lovely wife's arrival.

 

[S.Pierce]

-Hot coffee on a chilly morning.
-The smell of freshly cut grass.
-The cool side of the pillow.

 

[wyogirl]

Natural bodies of water (lakes, streams, etc...)
Being surrounded by forest
The sound of my 2 year old's laugh and the way he looks when he is asleep
Also when my 2 year old says "momma, I love you"
when I know "who sings it" in the car or a bar or wherever
Summer
Floating and sunshine
ETA: I also love the smell of fall (dead leaves), smell of bonfire, smell of rain and the smell of (you guessed it) gasoline, but particularly gas on the water smell, like at a boat dock. Those smells bring back so many WONDERFUL memories.

 

[Derrel]

Espresso coffee that I brew, with sugar, half and half, and a nice thick foamy layer of crema on top ( CoffeeGeek - Crema).

The satisfying ,soft "click" of a Nikkor lens bayonetting onto a Nikon body.

A good toasted English muffin, prepared with salted butter, a tablespoon of Adams all-natural peanut butter, and Smucker's strawberry jam.

A nice vanilla bean ice cream and rootbeer float with my 10 year-old son.

The first exhilarating run of a summer steelhead or a saltwater chinook salmon.

A good CD with my favorite songs, blasted on the car stereo.

 

[wyogirl]

and the smell of a library or an old book.... can't leave that out!

 

[snowbear116 47]

Oh, and the smell of a darkroom.

 

[Compaq]

When you make tacos, but not shells (those pancake-ish things), and you add crumbled tortilla chips inside. That sound when you eat those, I like.

 

[The_Traveler]

Having a free weekend by myself in a little apartment on Park Avenue in NYC with Netflix for the late nights and the entire city for the day and restaurants abounding and many things to read and a great breakfast to look forward to just across the street.
then going to Union Square to shoot and Korea-town for lunch and then to the Met and the Galleries uptown and to Little India for supper and a movie on 2nd Avenue
And then wake up for another day of it.

I love New York.