{"id":198,"date":"2011-01-11T23:51:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T04:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/testingxmlfile.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/11\/caffeine-will-make-you-fat"},"modified":"2011-08-25T16:43:02","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T21:43:02","slug":"caffeine-will-make-you-fat-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/2011\/01\/caffeine-will-make-you-fat-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Caffeine Will Make You Fat"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Every once in a while I’ll see a news story about a drunk\u00a0burglar\u00a0calling the cops on himself<\/a> or someone will say something outlandish and it will stun me. My husband and I often have a conversation that goes something like this:
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Me:<\/b> “HOW could someone not know that taking Benadryl will make you sleepy. WHY would you do that right before you drive 8 hours in the dark. WHY!?”<\/span>
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Him:<\/b> “You’re being too hard on people, everyone doesn’t learn this stuff.”<\/span>
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Me:<\/b> “I know that, but seriously – it’s Benadryl! \u00a0How do you not <\/i>know that??”<\/span>
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Inevitably the conversation ends with me, in my infinite wisdom, declaring what I know to be common sense. Basically, that is to say it ends with me judging someone as a complete moron for not knowing some random factoid that I was really, truly convinced everyone knows.<\/span><\/p>\n


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Today one of these encounters went a little like this:<\/span>
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Girl A:<\/b> “You know caffeine is, like, literally the most fattening thing for your body.”<\/span>
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Me, Thinking: <\/b>She’s joking. She doesn’t think that. WHY would you think that? Her friend is about to crack up laughing, because that was a joke.<\/i><\/span>
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<\/i>Girl B: <\/b>“No it’s not. The stuff in your coffee is fattening, but the caffeine isn’t.”<\/span>
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Me, Thinking:<\/b>\u00a0True. Yes. Correct. Girl A will now say, “that’s what I meant” so I can stop standing here with my chin on the floor and my eyebrows on the ceiling.<\/i><\/span>
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Girl A:<\/b> “NO! The caffeine is fattening. Seriously! How do you not know that?? It is absolutely the most fattening thing you can put in your body….worse than chocolate and fried chicken.”<\/span>
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Me, Thinking:<\/b>\u00a0Oh my gosh, she really believes this.<\/i><\/span>
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<\/i>At this point they walk outside. I finish putting away my 15 feet tall stack of notes (while wondering where all these diet pill manufacturers<\/a> went wrong by putting caffeine in their pills – what are they trying to do, make their customers obese!?) and head out the door, where I again encounter Girls A and B.<\/span>
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Girl B – to new Girl C:<\/b> “Is caffeine fattening? Tell her caffeine isn’t fattening.”<\/span>
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Girl C: <\/b>“Sugar & cream in your coffee might be, but the caffeine itself isn’t.”<\/span>

Gi<\/b><\/span>rl A: <\/b>“Fine, whatev. Y’all are wrong. Don’t blame me when you’re 300 pounds.”<\/span>
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Me, Thinking: <\/b>Maybe I should lay off the caffeine….<\/i><\/span>

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Have you ever had someone say something to you that was so wacky you found yourself scrambling to pick your jaw up off the floor? Do share. I can’t be the only one who occasionally finds themselves stunned by the sometimes peculiar beliefs of others. What’s the weirdest thing someone has ever said to you?<\/span><\/p>\n

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