> Sometimes I think of my diet as, "If it tastes good, it's not allowed."
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Heh. That's most diets. The unit of measure for how good food tastes is the "calorie".

That's my theory as to why Atkins is so faddishly popular. People get to eat KFC. Also, they lose a lot of water weight in the first week or so, and that keeps them motivated.

> On a recent cruise, some desserts were "no sugar added," but some sugar must have gotten in there all by itself. I feel better if they can say "sugar free."
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"No sugar added" is a very popular diet-industry buzzword that means absolutely nothing (as you have discovered). I see fruit juices that have "no sugar added", but there's already so much natural sugar in the fruit that a glass of juice has as much sugar as a can of cola. Some juices even have added apple juice concentrate or the like, which acts as a sweetener but apparently doesn't count as "added sugar". I think only diabetics realize that sugar is sugar, whether it's naturally in the ingredients or added as a white crystal.

> Maybe diabetics should be more vocal.
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Absolutely. And so should left-handed people. The world is a discriminatory place. I recently realized that I actually own a right-handed kettle, and that pretty much sent me over the edge.

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