{"id":93,"date":"2010-06-02T20:26:45","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T00:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/?p=93"},"modified":"2010-07-27T20:31:42","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T00:31:42","slug":"sweet-sips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/?p=93","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Sips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Appetite out of control?  Want to rein it in before wolfing down something you know you shouldn&#8217;t be eating at all, much less making a meal of?  This site is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rense.com\/general91\/20_Worst_Drinks_in_America_2010.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><em>disgusting<\/em><\/a>, the the very best sense of the word, and you need to see it.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t gross the reader out for cheap thrills; it harnesses disgust\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwhich at least <em>should<\/em> be your reaction\u00e2\u20ac\u201dto make a salient point, and directs it towards a deserving target.  It equates the sugar content of popular drinks to that in sugary foods.  Energy drinks and dessert coffees are common offenders, but you&#8217;ll be surprised at some of the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153winners.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  A 20-ounce bottle of Snapple Agave Melon Antioxidant Water comes in at two ice cream bars.  Water!  And it just gets worse from there.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking as someone still chipping away at what was once a 20-ounce soda a day habit, getting down somewhere around 8 ounces a day now, this can be a powerful tool, if not for eliminating the sugar monkey from your back, then at least stripping some of the deadliest weapons from its arsenal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>sugary drinks gone wild<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}