Why do people act like coffee in the morning is such a sacred routine but soda in the morning [basically the same drink] is lowbrow and unhealthy? (lemmy.world)

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like, it's caffeine and water and brown, who cares. i drink diet soda so it's no calories, no sugar. versus the stereotype starbucks order, why is soda so demonized

the whole sort of basically woo stuff about oh there's antioxidants there which give you a 3% lower risk of skin cancer after the age of 65 like come on that doesn't count

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[-] trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Breaking news: everything gives you cancer (possibly)

[-] Sethayy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

So... you should like... avoid obvious signs of it? We have little wiggle room? wdym by this dog there's defiantly an area between cancer riddled and 100% healthy

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