Hello and welcome back to Get Fit Guy, Kevin Don here, as well usual.

This week I wanted to have a chat about artificial sweeteners because nutrition is part of fitness.

Whether or not I think they are a good or bad thing.

This week's episode was inspired by me really craving a Pepsi.

And that's another thing I'd be interested to know.

Are you Team Coke or Team Pepsi?

For me, Pepsi every time, which is usually only about once a year.

But yeah, Pepsi spent, sent my sponsorship money over now.

Okay, so where was I right?

Yep, I picked up a Pepsi and almost spat it out.

What on earth have they done to Pepsi?

So the Pepsi UK website tells me that what they've done is replaced almost all the sugar with two

different types of artificial sweeteners, one that is impronounceable and the other one is sucralose.

No wonder my taste buds receded into my skull. So let's have a chat about this. Artificial sweeteners are a bit like magic ones in the food

industry. You wave them, say ibra, cada cadaver, and suddenly there's less sugar, fewer calories, and now

everything's seemingly guilt-free. Whatever that means, because no one should ever be guilty

about eating food. That's how eating disorders develop. We all know that

salad has more and different micronutrients than a beef burger, but that doesn't make a burger bad.

Objects themselves have no inherent moral values. The actions of the agents do. And this is my

philosophical way of saying that things aren't bad.

It's what you do with them that is.

Any rational agent knows that a burger is okay and that a burger for every meal is less okay.

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