what in the world

this is horrible for you

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oh btw in case you guys wanted to know ... people in the UK dont drink soda like you guys drink in the states - they dont drink it like water (as often peeps in the states do).

soda is a good way to ruin your health and get diabetes

... they do drink their beer like you guys drink soda lol ... seeing lots of people at a bar on a tuesday afternoon is no big deal here. wed thurs friday etc etc ...

As for"soda" drinks, they are no different than anything else in life. All things in moderation. I once knew a lady that drank a Coke-a-cola every day for 50 years, she lived to be 96 years old. Also, I heard once about a small community in Russia where nearly all drank a glass of wine everyday, they held the record for the most 100+ year old people in one community in the world.

Yes, too much sugar is not good for anyone and all of us are not the same. I've known a 97 yr old that smoked from the time he was 11 years old, he passed away when he slipped and hit his head on a bathtub.

Many things are not "good" for us, and most of us know what is bad due to the preaching of people that lead perfect lives themselves and consider it their duty to harass the rest of us.

As long as you use good common sense, then drink that Pepsi, or eat that bacon, or enjoy that cake.

[cheers] [cheers] [cheers]

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I drank a lot more when I was younger.

But apart from some occasions in high school and college where I drank primarily to get drunk and engaged in too many "drinking games" before driving, I don't regret any of it. Not the beer, not the (occasional for me) wine, not the cocktails and not the straight bourbon, tequila, or scotch. Not the "social drinking," not the "with meals drinking," and not the occasional drunkenness (Super Bowl 31, the night after I defended my dissertation, etc.). Nor do I apologize for having a well-stocked liquor cabinet (many of the bottles still there 5-10 years since they were first opened or for having a few bottles of port that won't be ready to open for another 5-10 years.

And the fact that those choices are part of the reason I am now type II diabetic, way too obese, and probably will die well before the average American, doesn't change that.

I regret some stupid things I did when young, just as I regret -- really regret -- some really stupid financial and other life decisions I've made in each decade of my adult life. And I really, really, really regret how I have spent most of my life doing things that must have truly disgusted my Lord God. I really, really regreat how I have focused so much of my life chasing the winds of self-absorbtion and pursuing various values of the world rather than living for His glory in all things. I regret how I have squandered decades of His gifts to me. I regret how I have failed in following the first Great Commandment; and I have a list of personal apologies for violations of the second that I will never be able to make because the people to whom those apologies are owed are dead or their whereabouts unknown.

Insofar as my above-average lifetime alcohol consumption has been part of my personal history of idolatry of self and of the world's false gods, then, yes, I regret that consumption. But because it has been biologically bad for me? No.

No regrets at all.

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