Vintage fear mongering to mothers to get their children addicted to sugar. Classic marketing.
I absolutely hate how this reads. How is “for energy” its own sentence on its own line, reads so poorly
Long time ago a breakfast bar or something was advertised as “full of food energy”. After some consumer action the company had to male a second commercial saying “by food energy we meant calories!” as if they assumed viewers would translate that in their heads like duh. What they didn’t say was that calories in their case meant sugar.
All that advertising in mid century western culture was meant to divorce us from the natural world. Careful engineering went into building post wwii American society
Well, in fairness, we do need carbs for energy. It’s just that we also need protein and fat for longer-term energy and carbs for shorter-term energy. And we need to match input and output calories. And it’s complicated, but for the most part you don’t need to worry TOO much about it - just make sure you walk and get exercise, which makes up for a whole host of ills.
You can eat zero processed sugar and still get too many carbs in your diet, which is, i think, the important part here. Carbs are not processed sugar, but processed sugar is a carb.
Its correct to say “you should probably eat carbs” but absolutely misguided to say “you NEED to eat sugar; and the children too!”
I agree, just as long as you don’t say “You shouldn’t eat processed sugar at all” - although I would say it’s better to minimize processed sugar unless you need quick energy (i.e. exercise or other manual labour). :)
its funny because Im not much for eating early in the day and eventually when I do like a contintental type breakfast. later I like to get the more complex stuff and I like high fiber and fat end of day
I totally load myself full of sugary carbs on my heavy cardio and heavy lift days. It makes a huge difference if I slam 40-60 grams of sugar about an hour before my wprkout and sip a sugary Gatorade during it.
This this this. This is exactly how to use carbs. And I’m one of the ones shouting “sugar is [generally] the real enemy” (although not keto because keto is also generally not the right answer).
Keto is how you lose all of your muscle mass. My diet is more or less set for me by my coach/personal trainer. I eat 5 or 6 times per day and I have been losing body fat percentage and gaining lean muscle mass at the same time. It is hella slow though, but seeing incremental progress feels so good.
I don’t consume artificial sweeteners because they make me sick.
You don’t consume artificial sweeteners because they don’t give you Watusi energy.
We are not the same.
Have you tried Xylitol? It’s technically a sugar but it doesn’t whack out your blood sugar level because it’s digested differently. Bonus: it’s good for your teeth, because bacteria in your mouth recognize it chemically as a sugar so they absorb it, but then they can’t process it so they die. I’ve been using it in place of regular sugar for years with no ill effects.
Xylitol can cause diarrheal in some people.
Xylitol was recently in the news for a study that linked it to higher risk of heart attack and stroke, so there’s that.
I tried some xylitol gum some years back that made me feel unwell, although that might have been because of some other ingredients that I’ve since realized I’m sensitive to. But based on my generally-poor reaction to artificial sweeteners, I try to stick with plant-based alternatives, like stevia and monkfruit… or just plain old regular sugar.
fact
Mary just got back from the acid tests.
Love eletric kool aid.
Ohhhhh… that’s where I recognize Mary from - a Dead concert!
She’s a twirler
Obesity epidemic explained. Weve collectively stopped watusiing.
How is it too hard to write “We’ve”?
watusi equals wellness!
Watusi is love.
Watusi is life.And then there’s BATUSI - the watusi for real Gs
This shit looks like it was made for the squares
Except for the part that looks like the griddy
Give it a few decades. Griddy will be the same.
Too complicated. Any more than 2 or 3 steps, and it’s a Broadway production.
Okay I’ve got to turn this into a cocaine ad
Just put nose in front of sugar and youve got it.
POV: your child is a hummingbird or Beavis
Beavis? Don’t you mean Cornholio?
I wanna watusi with a gang
watusi is for sissies. true Gs bust batusi!
Paid for by the American Dental Association?
of course! spice must flow!
I had to see the date of the add before I believed that this wasn’t bjork
Due to wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey shenanigans, actually this IS Bjork, and now you know why she called her first project The Sugarcubes.
Damn, can’t believe I missed that connection!
This has come strangely full circle.
With AI slop I’d only believe this ad was real if someone unearthed a 1965 magazine or newspaper with the ad in it. On paper. In my hands.
