A youtuber, forgot who, did a great video showing how we've shifted to an addiction economy and as hot of a take as that is, it makes a lot of sense. You're not allowed to just buy stuff and be happy anymore. You have to keep buying things over and over and you're still not satisfied.
To offer insight on store jerky; it keeps forever and the profit margins are astronomical for what it costs to make.
They're lying about crime rates so that they can pump more money into the police for when the people revolt.
As a mastodon thread amazingly put it: The police are their climate plan. The police are their housing plan. The police are their food plan. Capitalists don't want to fix the problem, they want to silence anyone who brings it up.
I mean they've always kind of a fashy shithole, but they definitely didn't start going hardcore on the pervertry until America culturally colonized them.
This thread is going reveal to a lot of people just how bad the science around sugar is right now.
Generally speaking, the point is not to consume too much and that would be nice except oops! our economic system is based on excessive consumption and sugar is kind of a really cheap ingredient to just add to make your food, so lets do a bunch of mental gymnastics so we don't have to explain why it's legal to sell canned diabetes with its 900 grams per can.
The fact it lacks nutrients and protein is another huge problem, you can go malnourished for awhile but because your body doesn't produce enough protein on its own, you can literally starve to death if you don't get it from other sources. Insulin is also needed alongside glucose to get energy where it needs to be so too much at once can overwhelm you and if do this long enough and you'll get the type 2.
So make sure you're getting all your nutrients, make sure you're getting your proteins, and don't consume too much or too fast. It's certainly possible to do all of this through a nontraditional diet but our society and body has kind of evolved to create the optimal solution for keeping us alive in a sustainable fashion.
Any reason to quit reddit is a good reason.