Some of these sugars might feel healthier, but they're all equally bad.
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Some of these sugars might feel healthier, but they're all equally bad.
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Absolutely.
Sugar is sugar is sugar.
A sweet problem: Princeton researchers find that high-fructose corn syrup prompts considerably more weight gain:
Yes.
*cough* processed *cough*
brought to you by Big Processors Inc.,
yes it is not food
evolution says you mess with it, you break it
I have been cutting sugar out of my diet for some time now. In doing so I am more inclined to read the ingredients list on many foods I buy. The most surprising place I have found added sugar was in canned peas. Nearly everything in the grocery store has added sugar somewhere. That is quite troubling.
No no no!
High-fructose is fructose! Fructose comes from fruit!
Fruit is good for you!
Sugar comes from the supermarket!
The supermarket is bad for you!
All the studies agree!
Science is settled.
Honey Stevia 50 produced by Whole Earth is excellent.
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Don’t worry about sugar by itself.
You’ll generally be better served minimizing carbohydrate consumption in general.
The amount you eat and what you eat it with are very important, which is why processed foods are so bad.
Our bread would have been considered a pastry 200 years ago. Their bread isn’t in anyone’s diet anymore. Our bread (carbohydrates) causes wild blood sugar swings, promoting a hungry feeling. Deal with that and you eat less and maintain a healthy weight.
For 45 years there was NO debate that a diet based mostly on carbs, even if comprised of food made mostly of sugar, was the best way to eat because meat would give you a heart attack. Then suddenly there was a debate when people kept having heart attacks and had diabetes now too. Whenever the science is taken for granted to be settled, I have questions.
The best bet is to avoid high fructose corn syrup AND cane sugar but of the two I'd fave the one closer to nature, cane sugar.
No, sugars, which are all bad, are not all equally bad. Fructose is more problematic than Glucose or Sucrose. Fructose is handled like Alcohol in the liver. So, if you have liver disease of any shape or kind, then Fructose will be problematic. Its mostly problematic when you are having it in large doses. If you are bingeing on fruit or you are bingeing on fruity alcoholic sugary drinks even rum and Cokes (Coke is made with high fructose corn syrup) then your liver has a real tough time getting rid of the alcohol while its also getting rid of the Fructose. If the same drink was made with Mexican Coke which is made with sugar, than your liver would handle the alcohol while your body stores or burns the sucrose.
Fructose is a large cause of Alzheimer’s, Diabetes, and obesity. Carbs in general can cause all these things. But the large increase in our diet of Fructose is closely correlated with the increase of these diseases.
My understanding is that the Fructose and Sucrose is split in the HFCS where it’s not split in table Sugar. Similar to the claim they make about honey. Being pre-split makes it’s impact larger on the body.
In the time since that study, sugar consumption overall (including that of HFCS) has declined, even as obesity rates have continued to climb.
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Thanks for poking a stick at people who make decisions based on emotions rather than facts.
The problem with high-fructose corn syrup is that food products that use it are intended to be addictive imo.
Umm ... that was good. I’ll have another one.
An interesting quote:
“Of course, this is not to say that you should feel fine eating food with HFCS in it. Just remember that it’s the nature of those products—the fact that they’re often sugary drinks and processed foods—that make them bad for you. An equivalent product made with real cane sugar is just as bad.”
correlation is not causation. The fact is that most stuff made with HFCS is garbage you shouldn’t be putting you your body.
I made beer in the 1970s. The beer shop sold me barley malt syrup and recommended an amount of sugar to bring alcohol levels up to a high normal for beer. They sold and recommended corn sugar as it was a simple sugar while cane sugar was a complex sugar and the yeast grown on complex sugars would impart an unwelcome taste as part of the natural break down during fermentation. I opted for a third process I read about. Dissolve the cane sugar in a small amount of hot water and a ad an amount of lemon juice whose acids would break down the compound sugar into multiple simple sugars. The flavor of the beer I made in this process was very good. I never did make enough beer in one batch to satisfy my craving for the beer.
Yes, absolutely it is worse than sugar, which is bad enough itself.
If you occasionally want a Coke, get un Coca-Cola real, hecho en Mejico com sugar real. Available at El Mercado or the dollar store.