Posted on 03/18/2019 9:14:38 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Ah yes, Eric Clapner - first astronaut to plant the American flag on Mars.
You should test it with a regular soft drink, like a Coke or Pepsi, as a control....................
there are plenty of sugarless type Gatorades out there and they are good..
Sorry, but the reality is, the larger the percentage of calorie intake that comes from sugar, the higher your likeluhood of heart disease, even IF your overall calorie intake, weight, BMI etc are all at healthy levels.
High amounts of sugars cause your liver to pump more dangerous and unhealthy fats into your bloodstream, resulting in plaque buildup and heart disease.
Your proposition that its simply folks who are generally less healthy who consume high sugar is not in line with the studies or facts.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/1819573
Actually, the caffeine levels of “energy drinks” is no more than cola. The mega-doses of B vitimins is probably the most important. A controversially effective ingredient in energy drinks is taurine. Taurine has been shown to lower cholesterol and increase metabolism. But whereas caffeine can cause anxiety, taurine has been shown in animals to lower the metabolic pathways associated in humans with anxiety.
Funny thing is that was about a week after he had told me I had best keep it to one cup a day.
But by all means, have all the Red Bull & vodka you want. It used to be a free country, after all.
“there are plenty of sugarless type Gatorades out there and they are good..”
I’ve gone to water. Don’t trust the artificial sweeteners.
Seems a bit much, but whatever. Be sure you are also supplementing with vit K-2 (M-7 type) as that amount of D3 alone could do you more harm than good.
I try to refer to sugar as Poison..to remind myself not to consume it.
I have.
Mexican coke raised it about 25-30 points in 20 minutes. Tried that a few times.
Don’t drink anything with hi fructose corn syrup.
Keep my type 2 under control, but it is not easy. But in my case it is *LITERAL* that “that which does not kill you makes you stronger”:-)
Gotta die of something, but I want it to be in a stolen helicopter for my 100th or shot by a 20 year old jealous boyfriend in my 90’s.
True genetic predisposition can be a major factor. I’m thin and have never had problems with my weight yet, due to genetic disposition (maternal uncle, great-grandmother and paternal great aunt, all had diabetes) I became an insulin dependent diabetic later in life due to genetics otherwise am in perfect health. Diabetes in and of itself is enough and the potential of all the ancillary destruction it will do to you if unchecked is, for me, a position I want to avoid. Because the damage diabetes can do is cumulative and nonreversable, I have adopted a very regimented dietary routine.
Yup. I take K2 daily along with the D3.
FYI, the VA had me on 50,000IU daily at one point...some years ago.
I use various ‘pre workout’ drinks before a lifting session or longer run; but I’m treating the caffeine and the other chemicals (L-carnitine, various amino acids, and such) like what it is- a drug. A drug that has a specific benefits, costs and dangers and is utilized for a specific purpose.
IMHO the important thing is to be intentional of what goes into your body and how what you consume relates to your current and desired health. Not everyone has the same goals to say nothing of the same physiology; some people can consume stuff that I shouldn’t, and vice-versa.
“And, more than 2 eggs a week would kill you dead dead dead. Now, a couple eggs a day is fine.”
Not any more. They just changed it again.
Fortunately, I had no heart damage. I blame my problems on the soda, not only because of the studies, but because I was the only in my family who drank that much, and the only one in my family who had the problems I had.
Nah, they're back to thinking it will kill you again. I read a study about it, maybe on FR?, just the other day.
Sez me, "Whatever. Eggs are nutritious, too." I figure that something is going to kill me, sooner or later. Stressing about all of the things that can, is just as bad as the things themselves.
Provided you don't have any known problems that conflict with this philosophy, moderation is the key.
Thanks. Great article.
The money quote, IMHO:
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When male rats were given water sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup in addition to a standard diet of rat chow, the animals gained much more weight than male rats that received water sweetened with table sugar, or sucrose, along with the standard diet. The concentration of sugar in the sucrose solution was the same as is found in some commercial soft drinks, while the high-fructose corn syrup solution was half as concentrated as most sodas, including the orange soft drink shown here. (Photo: Denise Applewhite)
High-fructose corn syrup and sucrose are both compounds that contain the simple sugars fructose and glucose, but there at least two clear differences between them. First, sucrose is composed of equal amounts of the two simple sugars — it is 50 percent fructose and 50 percent glucose — but the typical high-fructose corn syrup used in this study features a slightly imbalanced ratio, containing 55 percent fructose and 42 percent glucose. Larger sugar molecules called higher saccharides make up the remaining 3 percent of the sweetener. Second, as a result of the manufacturing process for high-fructose corn syrup, the fructose molecules in the sweetener are free and unbound, ready for absorption and utilization. In contrast, every fructose molecule in sucrose that comes from cane sugar or beet sugar is bound to a corresponding glucose molecule and must go through an extra metabolic step before it can be utilized. “
Then I started to notice that I was eating less. Started to feel more full - one PB sandwich for lunch was just fine, whereas with HFCS, two were needed, along with something on the side, and maybe a snack later.
Sez me, there's something to this part, at least. That, and I was amazed at the number of things with HFCS in it... Sweets, sodas, and Peanut Butter? Sure, makes sense. But bread? Ketchup? Salad dressing? Never would have thunk it.
I still subscribe to moderation. If I want a soda once in awhile, I have one. Just one. And so on. But I do feel better after starting to pay attention, versus just stuffing whatever happened to be around in my face.
It’s in EVERYTHING!......................
My theory, and I’m not a biochemist, is that ‘fructose’ does indeed trigger something in our bodies to put on weight.
Think about it, fructose is ‘fruit sugar’. Fruits ripen in summer and fall when our ancient ancestors would have had to build up their fat stores for winter’s hard times, just like bears and some other animals that hibernate. But we don’t hibernate like they do.
The fructose triggers our bodies to store the consumed energy as fat, but regular sugar does not.
IOW, our body gets a molecule of ‘fructose’ and it automatically ‘stores’ it as fat, but it gets a molecule of ‘sugar’ and immediately puts it to use as energy instead of storing it.
Just my theory....................
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