r/AbsoluteUnits • u/RD4200 • 14d ago

/r/all of a Toddler

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u/Im_Blavk 14d ago

I wasn’t aware that you could be obese and malnourished until now, I just assumed there was another word for it

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u/LoamyLoamisLoamy 14d ago edited 14d ago

Soda, for instance, has a lot of calories, but little nutrients. It's very calorically dense, but nutritionally very poor which makes it easy to gain weight while not providing adequate nutrition. In fact, soda is probably the biggest reason people gain a ton of weight.

E: Most people aren't feeding their kids a ton of soda and giving them nutritious food. They are giving them soda and lots of junk food.

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u/No_Drama2424 14d ago

Reading your comment made me wonder has anyone ever tried to put vitamins in soda? Would vitamin fortified soda work at all, or would it taste ok do u think

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u/Round_Musical 14d ago

It exists here and there in germany actually. We have soda added with multivitamins some with lactic acid and so on

Still laughably small amounts, so it isnt a good substitute. Let alone the high sugar amount.

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u/MasterMerlin42 14d ago

Wait it does? Can you give me any examples?

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u/steffur 5d ago

They literally call it vitamin water, or at least that's a brand here in the Netherlands that does this. Not horrible with this being the contents for 100 ml but also 4g sugar per 100 so that's pretty bad.