[lysol]

Even the veggie burrito bol is in the 800 range for calories, and based on how employees heap stuff on, much more than that. It's really two meals' worth of food. Even the highest quality starch and fat filled meal is still a starch and fat filled meal.

The health hysteria over aspartame hasn't really been fully debunked, there are still countless conflicting studies about the effects of aspartame, one of the more recent ones finding the metabolic effects of artificial sweetener to be the same as an actual HFCS-sweetened soda.

Soda may or may not be bad for you, but it's certainly empty calories. He shows a picture of Diet Coke but mentions Vanilla Coke throughout. Your parent comment is on the mark.

[jurassic]

800 calories for one of his two daily meals is not bad. And I'm curious what you think he should be eating for calories as a vegetarian (he said he didn't eat meat) if fat and starch are both off limits. A raw vegan diet is the only one I can think of that limits both of those, and I would dispute its healthfulness.

[ars_technician]

>Soda may or may not be bad for you, but it's certainly empty calories.

Not diet soda. There are NO calories in it. It's not "empty calories". With your level of ignorance, I'm surprised you haven't poisoned yourself.

>Even the veggie burrito bol is in the 800 range for calories, and based on how employees heap stuff on,

The calorie counts have to be based on the average serving size, or they will be fined by the FDA for lying.

[ovoxo]

Wait, did you just say that diet soda has "no calories" then proceed to call someone ignorant?