I am addictive to SUGAR. One by one I have given up all sugar including carbs with sugar (all carbs!). I learned one month ago I lost 40 pounds in 6 months.
Fructose is the worst sugar. It causes fatty liver. Research.
Oh. Diabetic Ass. say it’s ok to eat sugar and peanut butter!!! How can they say that? When I was a child, they called it “sugar diabetes” ... not diabetes. So if a person eats sugar, then they have a drug so they can continue to eat sugar.
What has the gov’t , the food companies, and drug industry done to us!
My A1C in four months went from 5.8 to 5.4 ...no sugar not one bit
You bring up a good point, something I’ve wondered about.
It kind of clicked with me, I’d always heard that “sugar is sugar” and it doesn’t matter.
But recently it was pointed out to me, that unlike Glucose, which can be utilized by virtually every cell in the human organism, Fructose is only processed in the liver.
People *already* have fatty liver, is it caused by Fructose? I’d like to read more on that. I just figured the HFCS in everything was just fueling even more metabolic syndrome.
Alcohol is another layer on top. It is burned preferentially before anything else, including carbohydrate.
I take the hybrid view that a beer or pizza or ice cream is OK once in a while. But I have to restrict calories overall with a sharp pencil.
I liken it in some ways to tuning an old school engine. The internal combustion engine needs a certain air/fuel ratio. Under many situations, it needs to run on the lean side, or it will produce sludge and everything gets clogged up. The idle circuit, accelerator pump circuit, cruise circuit jetting etc, an engine idling all day will load up very quickly.
Exercise, and idling on the “lean” side, this is a key component to health and longevity. We eat too much because it tastes good, and makes us feel good, if only temporary. What torques me is when the “experts” try to say it isn’t about discipline or self control. Yes, yes it is.