What food or drink did you grow up thinking was healthy (or not) but now find the opposite?

[Bossy Monkey]

In my case, in spite of being 47 I'm still not grown up yet, so this stretches to last week. I just learned that fruit juice is not particularly good for you. This was an ugly shock, as I've been living on fruit juice for years and years. Apparently, the body isn't particularly good at handling fructose, and when you pass a certain threshold (or in Internetese, fresh hold) you just can't take any more. Sooooo so much for that. (I should stress that it's only unhealthy if you only drink fruit juice, like I was doing, and is worse if you're prone to fructose malabsorption, which I may be. Don't throw out your fruit juice on my iffy advice. Rumors that fruit juice leads to spontaneous human combustion are just that.)

And you?

[Javaman]

1. Tang.

I mean, astronauts drank it! right? right? It turns out they actually didn't. :(

But really upon reflection, how could powdered orange stuff that had only a hint of orange something in it be healthy?

propaganda, marketing, promoting and pasting a NASA logo on it, well, it did sell.

Jeez, I wonder if it did anything to my DNA?

[Kali]

4. at least it had good flavor

last time I had it (do they still make it?) they had changed the formula and it tasted like every other fake orange flavor

[Name removed]

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[Dr. Strange]

22. I used to drink Deleted sub-thread all the time when I was a kid.

[LaurenG]

26. did it make you sick or did your mom limit you?

I have never tried any myself! :rofl:

[TZ]

32. OMG...

I'm glad I wasn't drinking my tea when I read that...

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[wickerwoman]

5. Gatorade

when I was in college, it was almost the only thing I drank. Now realize that I might have had trouble losing weight due to the 1000+ calories a day of Gatorade I was drinking... and that's not even thinking about all that sugar... blech...

But I did get lots of electrolytes!

I once drank almost four liters of Gatorade at a sitting and realize now that I was very close to putting myself in a diabetic coma at the age of 20.

Sooo glad to see that that nasty crap is being taken off the shelves but unfortunately it's just being replaced with it's watered-down equivalent "Vitamin Water".

[Bertha Venation]

29. Gatorade is being taken off the shelves?

??

[wickerwoman]

33. Not deliberately,

but when I was in college there was an entire aisle of the supermarket literally dedicated to Gatorade products and now there are only one or two shelves. Seems like the stores have cut way back on the number and variety of Gatorade that they sell. Meanwhile, all that space is being replaced by vitamin waters.

[rug]

6. Gin.

Who knew?

[mitchum]

14. Hey,it's got berries in it

that's a fruit

[Fire Walk With Me]

7. "King Vitamin" breakfast cereal!

Turns out it was 50% sugar, or there-about. Whee!

[JitterbugPerfume]

8. bacon , whole milk

butter , red meat.

[Lex]

9. grapenuts cereal (most all cereal actually) and granola bars and most yogurt

all full of sugar

[Bertha Venation]

30. Oh, man, I miss Grape Nuts

LOVE that stuff.

[trof]

11. I started smoking when doctors recommended Chesterfields.

GOOD, and good FOR you!
:-)

[Xipe Totec]

12. Funny you should ask...

Original post title: How the Hell did YOU Survive Childhood? (May-03-2006)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x5108911

[mitchum]

13. Grain alcohol...hey, it says "grain", doesn't it?

[TX Screwball]

15. Government mule.

We were poor!

I kid. Pancakes. Mom thought pancakes with tons of butter, jelly, and peanut butter was as healthy as you get.

Bless her.

[suninvited]

16. milk

it does a body good?

[hunter]

17. Not so good for people, not so good for the earth.

Not so good for cows, especially when they end up on a tortilla at Taco Bell.

[HopeHoops]

18. Meat

As a kid, it was always "eat your meat". I haven't touched the shit in 20 years and my three daughters are lean, strong, and healthy (eldest is 18) vegetarians.

[Richardo]

19. "fresh hold"

:rofl:

I heard someone say once that if you want any nutritional value from freshly-squeezed juice at home, you should throw away the juice and eat the pulp.

[carlyhippy]

20. Kool aid.....hey, they said it had vitamin C

Carly

[La Lioness Priyanka]

21. can someone please tell me about the deleted subthreads

why? how? who was involved? in a thread about healthy food?

[Kali]

24. you never saw a flame war over food here before?

:P

[La Lioness Priyanka]

25. FUCKING GOOD POINT!!

:hi: :P

[Zomby Woof]

27. But over TANG?

I missed the flames too - but am amazed that TANG could ignite a flame war. I thought everyone agreed without exception that it is NASTY stuff. My sister and I were kids in the early 70's when we drank it, because we fell for anything related to the space program. :crazy: But we didn't really like it, lol.

[Kali]

28. unfortunatly it wasn't over tang

or even food
it was about posting approach (read that as a bunch of personal insults and rudeness)

now a flame war over tang would be hilarious!

[jakefrep]

36. I dare you to post "Obama loves TANG" in GD or GDP.

I bet we'd get a flamewar.

[wickerwoman]

34. Someone

thought calling the "OP" stupid was a constructive way to respond to what was intended to be a light-hearted discussion of food mistakes. The fruit of this little dance of death was the deleted sub-thread.

[Shell Beau]

35. Well, it involved much more than that, but it doesn't matter now because

it is gone! As it should be.

[Locrian]

23. pasta - nt

[noamnety]

31. Orange juice, yes! And fish.

I thought a glass of OJ every morning was the healthiest thing - until my mom had high blood sugar levels and her doctor chewed her out over drinking a sugar bomb every morning.

And fish, which was supposed to be the healthy alternative to meats, brain food, all that. Now it turns out it's just a glorified filter for every bit of pollution that's in the water source.

[tigereye]

37. V8 - loaded with salt

[graywarrior]

38. Tab and Marboro's

I lived on those for a year.