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[thedreamisdead]

[There's no getting around it. It's an essay. About the dangers of sugar abuse on your health, linked to several medical articles. In it, she links the abuse of sugar to depression, diabetes, dopamine imbalances, fueling cancer cells and making tumors more aggressive, impotence, increased risk of heart attacks and heart disease, increased inflammation leading to joint pain and arthritis, increased risk of strokes, kidney failure, and rotting teeth.

Included in her essay is a list of signs of sugar abuse, including false teeth, rotten teeth, pupil dilation, jitteriness, mid-afternoon 'crashes', and other symptoms.

She wraps up with a plea for people to seek help and rehabilitation for their addictions and avoid anyone who might try to push such addictive substances on them.]

Comments

[Video]

[calibrates_big_guns]

Well. That's awkward timing.

[Garrus says after swallowing the piece of chocolate he'd been chewing on and grabbing another from the box.]

Not that any of this applies to me, but ...

[He shrugs, popping the second piece into his mouth.]

[Video]

[thedreamisdead]

I thought you couldn't eat human food?

[Video]

[calibrates_big_guns]

I can't, but dextro chocolates do exist.

[Video]

[thedreamisdead]

Huh. The more you know.

[Unfortunately, she doesn't know enough about Turian biology to make an argument there.]

[Video]

[calibrates_big_guns]

It helps that they can synthesize damn near anything here. Complex proteins taste ... off but otherwise it isn't too bad.

[He'd be very impressed and mildly concerned if she did.]

[Video]

[thedreamisdead]

That does have some uses, I'll admit. Though I'm not sure I'd use it for chocolate.

[Video]

[calibrates_big_guns]

I'm shocked.

[Video]

[thedreamisdead]

Hopefully those are better for you than they are for humans, then.

[Video]

[lovernotafighter]

Dude, seriously? I don't know if you read that, but there's some pretty compelling shit about how supposedly chocolate breaks your dick. I'm assuming you guys have dicks, and I'm assuming you don't want it broken, so, you know, you might want to stop eating that stuff.

[Video]

[calibrates_big_guns]

[Garrus shoots a flat look straight into the camera.]

I must have missed the section where she covered the studies done on turian subjects.

[Because yes, he actually read the damn thing. Partly due to boredom and partly for a laugh, but he'd read it.]

[Video]

[lovernotafighter]

Okay, sure, it might not technically be in there- [He wouldn't know, as he didn't read the whole thing.] -but are you sure it won't either? Are you willing to take that risk!?

[Video]

[calibrates_big_guns]

I'm pretty confident.

[If the mouthful of chocolate didn't convey that well enough already.]

If it was a problem, there's at least one of the doctors back home who would have handed me a pamphlet about it the second he saw me in the mess hall.