you gonna eat that sugar or can i have it??? 
Posted on 08/26/2013 6:20:13 PM PDT by Signalman
Is sugar toxic and the cause of the obesity epidemic? Here’s a great new video called Toxic Sugar. It’s a recent segment from the major Australian science program Catalyst, on ABC.
It’s arguably the best 18-minute introduction ever made on the true causes of the obesity epidemic. The program features the #1 enemy of the sugar industry: professor Robert Lustig. Also appearing: science writer Gary Taubes and obesity expert professor Michael Crowley.
See it and then tell your friends. This needs to be seen by a lot of people
How did we come to believe saturated fat and cholesterol are bad for us?
About 45 minutes to an hour to watch the video, but it one of the best I’ve ever seen. Media lies and government interference with diet have a significant role with the escalating obesity levels in this country.
>> Media lies and government interference with diet have a significant role with the escalating obesity levels in this country.
Yeah, it can’t possibly have anything to do with personal responsibility, and the solution couldn’t possibly be so simple as “don’t eat so damn much”.
I don’t like labeling sugar “toxic” because I think it’s a misuse of the term, but it should be glaringly obvious that people consume far greater amounts of sugar than what’s been normal for centuries.
Go back 400 years ago, and the majority of our peasant ancestors never ate cane sugar, maybe honey on rare occasions for sweet foods. They also did back breaking work on a daily basis as a matter of survival.
Go back 400 years ago, and the majority of our peasant ancestors never ate cane sugar, maybe honey on rare occasions for sweet foods. They also did back breaking work on a daily basis as a matter of survival.
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Although to be fair, the average life span then was probably about 45.
ADM remains a bigger villain than the Fanjul family...which isn't saying much. :)
Thanks for posting this. I’m anxious to watch it.
And I can’t recommend Gary Taubes’ books enough. I know a number of people who have had their health restored after reading “Why We Get Fat and What to Do About it.” For several the changes go well beyond simple weight loss.
Watch the sugar video or the other one ... it’s not as simple as “don’t eat so damn much”.
Check out the video in post 3 ... you might be recommending that to folks as much as the Taubes book. Dr. Attia is a ‘colleague’ of Taubes and he is very articulate, excellent at explaining study results, etc. It’s made a big difference for me.
I’ve lost 65 lbs in the last two years all because of avoiding sugar in its many forms.
I really believe that a sugar free diet makes all the difference in the world.
>> it’s not as simple as “don’t eat so damn much”.
Bull. So don’t eat so damn much sugar, if that’s what you believe it is! And by the way, walk around more, instead of spending time in front of your computer.
What does the government, or any other externality, have to do with it?
The last time I went to the grocery store — which was last night — I don’t recall anyone putting a gun to my head and forcing me to fill my cart with certain items. I also seem to recall a lot of green stuff, fruits, meat, and so forth on the shelves.
Is an authoritarian grocery store stocked to the ceiling with only sugar a problem in your area?
you gonna eat that sugar or can i have it???
Take a hike yourself - I can (and do) 40 miles a day on marathon hikes so don’t lecture me about sitting in front of a computer.
Educate yourself .... ignorance may be bliss, but it’s bad for your health.
I allow myself one piece of dark chocolate a day; otherwise no ice cream, donuts, cookies, etc. I used to come home from work (RN in a NICU) very stressed and let my sweet tooth go wild.
Now I’m losing weight and feeling much better. Also gave up dairy and wheat.
Your comments betray your lack of information. Opinions do not substitute for facts based on research. Anyone keeping up with research on obesity knows its a complex problem with many factors. While some are fat from over eating or eating the wrong foods many more eat sparingly and do not lose weight. The striking statistics showing that a miniscule # of people able to maintain weight loss make it quite clear that there are physiologic mechanisms at work that are not yet understood.
If it comforts you to believe that obese people have no self controls and are lazy gluttons by all means tell yourself that fairy tale.
>> don’t lecture me
Hey, I’m not lecturing you, but you’re whining about having a problem, so I’m helping you solve it.
>> Educate yourself
I know far more about nutrition that you ever will. However, the necessary things I learned before age twelve from my Mother. Namely: eat a variety of foods, avoid processed food, REALLY avoid “junk food”, emphasize the vegetable groups. I’m in the sixth decade of life, and Mom’s advice has served me well.
One thing Mom and Dad *never* taught me: to abrogate personal responsibility and demand that the gubmint think for me.
I’m curious: where did you go off the rails? Maybe you should move to NYC; I hear Michael Bloomberg will protect you from sugar.
>> Your comments betray your lack of information.... you...believe that obese people have no self controls and are lazy gluttons
Well then, by all means, inform me as to the real problem!
What is it? Government representatives are packing sugar down their throats against their will?
Seriously: after your last post, you owe it to yourself, your tinfoil-hat group, and me as well, to spell out EXACTLY HOW all this sugar is getting into the guts of all these fat people.
HOW? Spell it out, Einstein. I must be too ignorant to perceive, since (silly me!) I’m assuming they’re all voluntarily EATING it.
>> make it quite clear that there are physiologic mechanisms at work that are not yet understood.
So that’s quite clear, is it?
Then use that (claimed) “fact” to demonstrate exactly why endemic obesity is a RECENT (last two or three decades) problem.
If obesity is truly a physiological problem, and not one of intake/burn ratio, simple logic would dictate that endemic obesity would have been a problem throughout history.
History shows that not to be the case, however.
Awaiting your learned reply.
Taubes, Attia, Lustig, and on and on, are all hustlers who've learned that it is much easier to promote diet fads, sell diet advice, and earn lecture fees by demonizing one macronutrient over another rather than offering the more logical, yet boring, counsel that you should eat less and exercise more. Books fly off the shelf when fats or carbohydrates are accused of being the problem, while the rather obvious idea that total calories is the problem is something that few are willing to pay for.
There are all sorts of causes for obesity, but we would all be much better off - at least as a starting point - if we would accept the fact that it's the total number of calories that's important, not the macronutrient, or the macronutrent ratio.
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