This is Worse than Sugar (Stores Belly Fat and Makes You Eat More)

the sound of ice in a glass makes me want a Scotch

I drink more than one can of seltzer water everyday. It's the only thing that quenches my thirst. It also helps me avoid other surgery carbonated beverages.

Junk food is very thoroughly engineered. Those foods usually stack several addictive traits: sweet, salty, sour, savory (umami), spicy, fatty (the good kind, like in butter), crunchiness, etc.

Awesome content, as always!! Thank you, Thomas! 👏

Make a cheddar cheese crisp to go with your scrambled eggs...

I had no idea that why I prefer carbonate water vs regular water.

Watching this and drinking a La Croix 😂 I get it though

To the ice cream, I've heard this before, cold makes things taste less (sweet), So ice cream has to have a ton of sugar in it, we dont notice. But, let that ice cream melt, and the slury left over is sometimes too sweet to eat. The reverse can be true with hot foods. Hot apple pies tastes sweeter than room temp. So microwave it for a sec, and use less sugar.

Celery and Lebanese cucumber has that crunch. Cider vinegar with salt, tabasco and water is a dopamine hit for me, and so is soda water with lime, or dandelion and chicory coffee with allulose. Or lemon water with ginger juice. Or green tea, or peppermint tea. Another one is a teaspoon of spirulina in water, or a teaspoon of ocean algae calcium in water.

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