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I wasn't sure how to do capital letters here Mr. Kuiper, so I just made them all lower case. Can you assist? Actually, may you assist? Anyway, Mr. Curtis brought this can of Le Croix (flavored carbonated water) in last week to get some feedback:

Here's the part that isn't an opinion: Le [I now see that it's spelled] La Croix does not exist in nature; it is not water, nor is it milk. Therefore it does not need to be drunk.

Here's the part that is opinion: drinking these is the same as eating gluten-free bread or califlower crust pizza: you're trying to see how much you can get away with, trying to see how close you can get to that "bad for you" gray area before going over. What you're not doing is putting as much distance between you and that "bad for you" gray area as possible. Drinking these means you aren't taking your nutrition seriously at that exact time. That is my opinion, but one that I'm fairly certain would provide an improvement for anyone who drinks canned or bottled pisswater on a regular basis.

On another note, go back and look at the 75 different names for sugar. Actually, don't. I'll just post it here again.

I would bet not all of those would register as a calorie on the back of a nutrition label, but things that taste like sugar can trick your body into iliciting the same response it would from a cookie or soda pop. To demonstrate this, open up a bag of Sour Patch Kids right in front of you and notice what happens to the outsides of your tongue and the roof of your mouth. Or, if you're like Bubs, walk by your work's breakfast table, stuff your head in the bagel bag, and sniff all that sweet aroma up. Saying you can taste the food before you eat it is not a hyperbole.

"I literally feel like a dog drooling," she said, when I reached out for comment.

Interestingly enough, Bubs had more to say, because apparently her bagel junkie sniff does not go unnoticed at work, as she routinely gets asked if she thinks she thinks she'll gain weight if she treats herself to just 1 bagel every week.

"I don't know," she said, "but I wouldn't feel my best. I eat breakfast and pack lunch, so I wouldn't be eating it because I'm hungry, I'm eating it just to eat it."

So in other words, are you drinking La Croix because you're thirsty or are you drinking it because you want to experience the taste of sugar? Replacing pop, lemonade, or Gatorade with La Croix might make a difference in your weight in the short term, but I also know it's not addressing the limiting factor. It would be good practice to be constantly improving your nutrition standards. Or, as Mr. Carey put it, "If you're going to drink pop, then don't mess around; just drink pop."