Posted on 04/08/2023 4:50:43 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
Yep!
I eat lots of sugar.
I have had any medical treatment from a medical doctor in over 20 years.
Carbonation can cause food to break apart faster in the stomach.
It’s not just sugar that leads to obesity.
Associations can be misleading.
The calories are meaningless. That’s antiquated thinking.
It’s all about the insulin. That is the killer, not the calories.
Don’t eat cereal. Loaded with sugar. That should take care of sugar intake.
Most people ADD far more sugar to unsweetened cereal than the sugared cereals they buy.
My understanding of nutrition is that you need 0.75-1.0 gram of protein for every pound you wish to weigh. You need the same amount of calories in fat.
The weight control comes from how much carbohydrates you are intaking. If you need to drop weight, that is the food you drop. You don’t touch protein and you don’t touch fat, if you are taking in the same calories of each.
Now, it may be that, if you go deeper, the effect is on insulin. I am aware that the reason why bodybuilders are dropping dead so young is because they are taking insulin in massive quantities, in order to increase the amount of food they can take to increase muscle mass.
Ahh. Thanks. I forgot about the Sweet Teas I have at lunch.
That would put me over 6 teaspoons a day with my 2-3 coffees.
I’ll have to keep an eye on that.
Based on my personal experience, I think it depends. Some of us were very fat. Once someone gets obese, their insulin control often goes out of whack. You can then restrict calories and have your body turn to muscle tissue for more calories while leaving the fat...not untouched, but certainly not used exclusively to make up the difference. For people like me, it really IS about insulin.
My sister was never fat. She didn’t LIKE cookies growing up so, unlike me, she didn’t grow up eating a dozen or more cookies a day! For her, reducing calories IS the answer. Her body never got out of whack in how it works. Mine did.
Another friend is the same way. Never got fat. What diet he uses doesn’t matter. If he starts to gain, he cuts back a little until the fat is gone. His body, like my sister’s, works the way it ought.
Mine? If all I cut is calories, I get weak as a kitten. If I aggressively cut carbs, the weight goes away without hunger or weakness.
“In sum, go lower carb, if you don’t want added sugar health issues.”
Agree, and one thing to consider - that ALL carbs turn into sugar in the human body, and that change is very quick for most carbs, including bread, potatoes, and noodles.
For the 80% of the country that needs to worry about weight and/or blood glucose, simply think of carbs as poison.
I switched to Truvia (from Sweetia Plant in Central America, and widely available in supermarkets), years ago, and it got me off insulin, and on to Metformin.
I don’t even have any sugar in the house. Nor honey, which I find disgustingly sweet. Use stevia in my coffee and pure maple syrup on crepes made from sugar-free mix I buy at Natural Grocer. I also don’t eat wheat, but there are several brands of wheat and sugar free mixes. Taste great.
For 80% of the population, what I say is true in terms that keeping your carbs in check and checking your bodyfat to keep it in line for you gender will generally keep diabetes away.
However, there is always genetics. For example, it is thought that diabetes is a consequences of being cold weather adapted. That’s why American natives and Germans tend to have higher rates than other populations. They are efficient users of carbohydrate calories, which helps get the sugar in the blood because blood sugar acts like antifreeze for the blood.
I think for most people, controlling the intake of short carbohydrate chains, which are basically processed sugars, and keeping the fat within their gender norms will almost never get diabetes. Although, what I say is true for the broad population, there may be some people who need more than that preventative step to ensure they don’t get diabetes.
The sugar in our house is for the hummingbirds...and SOME things at Christmas...altho I am reducing that also.
There were six random controlled studies that made the cut and were part of what these findings were based on.
Prostate enlargement is an issue that appears to be more frequent with high blood sugar. Of course, eating simple sugars can be okay if one says active enough, though.
I’m sure you a nice guy, but all that is anec-data. One or two person mini-pockets of incomplete data. There are going to be exceptions to any general rule, and I would also submit that even with these one or two person stories, the data is incomplete.
My recommendation is to start by watching the YouTube videos and listening to the podcasts of people like Andrew Huberman, Thomas DeLauro, Andy Galpin, Dr Berg, Peter Attia, David Sinclair, and the like. They are pretty consistent with their recommendations across the board: no sugar, limited carbs, no processed foods, push the exercise, sleep well, reduce stress. Nothing wacky or too strenuous. Treat your body as it was designed by The Designer.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20
New International Version
Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.
“6 tsp a day??? Seems like a lot to me”
Me too..that’s just sugar, not carbs or fruit right?
Salt recommendation is 2300mg thats like 1 teaspoon.
“Sugar is ADDICTING”
There was a book in the ‘70s called “Sugar Blues” and it talked all about that.
I don’t eat much sugar, but I eat two or three pieces of bread a day or equivalent and I turned to pure stevia except for that rare occasion where I have a foo foo coffee and I will use three teaspoons of agave in that, but that’s rare I usually drink coffee black.
One ex of mine on the other hand, tho in good shape is a sugar eater, plus there’s 2 pancreatic cancer victims in her immediate family. She’s just asking for it IMHO.
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