[drukenemo]

The advice that surfaces here when a healthy-eating article is posted always leave me surprised. “Don’t eat added sugars, or only very rarely”. Have you looked around and seen the infinite amount of delicious food available literally everywhere? Sure, make an effort to reduce those, but to me cutting out those is akin to recommending someone to be celibate or not to ever commit a sin. Those ultra virtuous (and maybe boring) people who can live 100% on a perfect diet of fish and vegetables are like catholic priests advising everyone to join them in their renouncing of the wonders of life. Sugar (in all its forms) in moderation is probably a net positive in life quality than living an ideal life and rejecting a cake at your nephew’s birthday party because “you don’t eat poison”. Relax a bit people, eat nutritious meals most of the time, watch your caloric intake and enjoy your life.

[eudamoniac]

The thing is, once you have a healthy diet, those sickly sweet things don't taste very delicious anymore. Like, on the rare occasion I have a soda now, it literally tastes like an extremely sweet syrup that I cannot easily drink much of. You kind of sound like a porn addict glorifying extreme BDSM porn while denigrating those boring people who just have sex with their wives. What you have is an acquired taste, one that can also be disacquired without much loss.