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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.]

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[iamresponding]

So what if your body's barely human anymore and doesn't metabolize sugar in a way where it'll clog your arteries? Got an answer for that one?

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[thedreamisdead]

I'd still be concerned about hormone levels, insulin levels, elastin damage, joint inflammation, and the other issues I discussed.

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[iamresponding]

Nope, unaffected. My body's been reconstructed on the molecular level to hold the Nova Force. I've gone days without eating more than a few ration bars, without losing any fat or muscle mass, and did it without my blood sugar going unregulated.

I don't even have to eat as much when I'm at full power. Just in general. But that also means what I eat doesn't affect me much, either.

[He crosses his arms and angles his head a bit to look at her.]

And uh, about half the team ain't even human or are metahuman. Coluans don't metabolize sugar the same way, for instance. And the speedsters need more carbs than the rest of us - and the faster they can be metabolized, the better.

So, y'know, maybe avoid lecturing everyone by painting us with that broad a brush?

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[thedreamisdead]

Or, if you're not human and your dietary needs are different, you can stop and realize that you're not in the target audience before starting to lecture me about it?

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[iamresponding]

So who is your target audience in a team that's 99% comprised of aliens and metas?

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[thedreamisdead]

People who still have an average human digestive system. Not everyone who gained superpowers had their dietary needs reconfigured.