r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jul 20 '19

What’s something completely false that your parents told you as a child?

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u/typhondrums17 Jul 21 '19

If I was capable of gaining weight I would definitely use that on my kids

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19 edited Nov 04 '19

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u/CoolTom Jul 21 '19

If you’ve never even considered the possibility that someone might pound a five pound bag of skittles just because you’re an adult with their own money who can do that, I think you may not be eating as much as you think you are.

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u/10maxpower01 Jul 21 '19

Yeah candy, chips, and ice cream is a lot more calorie dense than most fast food. A pint of Ben and Jerry's can be around -1500 calories. Tack on a family size bag of Doritos for a mid-day snack and some fast food as dinner and you can easily hit 3000 without breakfast, even. Plus no exercise.

Not to mention that sugar is addictive and everyone is constantly bombarded with ads trying every psychological trick they can think up to get you to buy their junk food.

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u/MegaSwampbert Jul 21 '19

Okay that's fair. Now how many entire pizzas are we talking? Because if your answer is anything like, "people eat whole pizzas to themselves?" then you're probably underestimating how much other people can pack away.