[quote user="Jeff"]
Ok so i was reading through this and i dont know where you people live and all, but what is this "pop" you speak of?? is it soda??
[/quote]Haha. I usually call it soda, but either one works for me. Some people are very specific about what they call it, though.
[quote user="Jeff"]
haha...well silly me!! In all my years of living i didnt even know what i was drinking!! Thanks for clearing that up Batts..hahaha
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haha anytime Jeff!
I'm used to people calling soda pop because my teachers are all from up north except for one. All of my teachers that are from up north say that we talk weird. I'm a southern girl so I say soda. But whatever floats your boat!
i actually say both. i use them interchangeably.
That teacher is practicing un-teaching, I think. She is perpetuating the idea that people do something to get T1. I'm right there with you Happy Vegan. I have to admit that I have
a pretty bad diet mountain dew habit. I'm up to probably around 1-2 two liters a day. I call it DMD.
Regular soda tastes like syrup. It's so thick and sweet somehow...in a gooey way. Diet isn't...although I admit that it's not healthy. Argh. Another vice to address.
I use it to treat lows, though. It works really great, although for some reason, it tastes like prickly water. Anyway. Boo on the teacher. Blar on the soda/T1 association. I want to commend you, oh poster of this, for being a really good sport about that situation. It would have burned my grits.
I just finished taking a nutrition in college. We got on the subject of artificial sweetners. Which is what they use in diet soda, in case you didnt know. I think the reason your teacher wanted you to try to not drink soda was because of all the artifical sweetner in it. I really dont think it had anything to do with you being a diabetic. The teacher probably asked who was a diabetic because tshe know that diabetics drink diet soda (most of the time). And if you drink a lot of diet soda then you are getting all of the sweetner which isnt good for you in large amounts. Don't get me wrong regular soda isn't any better. It has a lot more sugar, carbs, and calories. Shes probably just wanting to prove that there are alternatives than drinking soda.
Agreed, I've been hearing about the dangers of diet cokes for like 15 years. I drink them regularly and am quite healthy, so go figure.