Why Sugar Is Public Enemy Number 1

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matthias-green (63) · 6 years ago

Like alcohol, tobacco and oil, sugar is a commodity that kills us all, but because it provide profit to it's manufacturers and special interests, they are a protected class in society. Capitalism demands profits over safety and health.

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blockchainherbal (40) · 6 years ago

As they have replaced healthy fats with toxic sugar in many processed foods, society's health will continue to decline unless these evil corporations are held accountable for poisoning our food supply.

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sugarfix (55) · 6 years ago

Ah the power of populism over biology

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surfermarly (74) · 6 years ago

As always in life: it's about balance. I've never been a huge fan of food trends. Nowadays one even needs to apologize if eating a steak.

Sugar doesn't kill anybody if applied in the right dosis. Of course drinking coke instead of water may kill you over time, but that's no news. During the past 37 years of my life I haven't ever gone on any type of diet, and the annual cross check at the hospital always shows me best values.

If we go ahead with these food trends there will be a point in time when we're actually not allowed to eat anything at all.

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nituanuj786 (53) · 6 years ago

Sugar is commonly used in the recipes for sweeteners, and these sweet dishes are very tasted and eaten,
but enjoy this taste - but we are forgetting that these sweetness of sugar gradually helps us Slow poison is slowing down in the body .
Whose bitterness will face some time later in the form of diseases because you must also have heard that Chinese is a white poison.
In this case, it is necessary to know that what is the reason that the sugar filled with sweetness is called white poison
so that we can also prevent anyone from playing with their health.
So let's know today that this white truth of sugar -

The digestive system gets Diminished - The excessive amount of sugar begins to form acid in the body which causes the gas to become in the stomach. 500 calories is spent to digest sugar .
That is, the body has to work very hard and if the sugar is not eaten after the physical work, then the harmful chemical reaction starts in the body which slow down the digestion speed.
Obesity and diabetes - There is a lack of nutrients in the sugar and the amount of calories is very high, which causes obesity problems in people who eat more sugar.
Which brings with it a lot of diseases, including diabetes, which is a disease caused by the amount of insulin in the body being unbalanced.
Aging comes quickly - Acidity in the blood increases with excessive sugar, which leads to harmful effects on the skin, such as wrinkles before the skin starts prematurely and the signs of old age on the skin begin to appear clearly.
Increase in cardiovascular diseases - Excessive use of sugar reduces good cholesterol and enhances bad cholesterol and triglycerides, thereby increasing the chances of having high BP and cardiovascular disease.
Damage to teeth - Excessive intake of sugar removes the top cover of teeth. Sugar does not contain any nutrients and sugar causes bad bacteria to grow easily in the mouth, which damage the teeth.

6)Harmful to the bones - The calcium required for digestion of sugar is taken from bones and teeth, resulting in the balance of phosphorus and calcium in the bones and the bones become weak, causing osteoporosis such as bone disease.

Uncomfortable change in nature - By consuming more sugar, a person starts to feel moody and feels stress. Such people have mood swings and they start feeling tired of being happy anywhere.

A spoonful of sugar contains about 50 calories and taking more sugar than the body's necessity means giving an open invitation to diseases. In such a situation, limit the quantity of sugar so that it will keep the energy of giving energy to the body, not the white poison and attacking the body.

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sayeds1956 (53) · 6 years ago

Very good post for Diabetes patients. No doubt it is silent killer

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nutritree (1) · 6 years ago

Good comment to reafirm what I have been learning for years.

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nituanuj786 (53) · 6 years ago

You got my post nice thank you all guys

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wales (68) · 6 years ago

Sugar is the worst thing ever; I gave it up in 2012 and can't stand the stuff now

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ezraswish (50) · 6 years ago

Sugar is so bad for you. It is horrible what it does to your body.

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lovethis (50) · 6 years ago

sugar is worse than meth

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ankitkarna (22) · 6 years ago

Appreciative. I am a regular visitor of your website. Thanks for informative and tremendous work. Thanks for sharing and keep publishing good articles.

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buzweaveryoutube (59) · 6 years ago

While I was doing a keto diet this time last year it was amazing to see just how many foods we eat in the US that contains sugar. Since sugar is addictive and or your brain/body craves it this would explain why food and beverage companies put it in their products. The food and beverage companies know that sugar is a problem in the US considering that 80%+ Americans are overweight or obese. Going full keto is rough, but you will drop weight as your body reaches ketosis. Sugar is one of the main reasons people have trouble losing weight. As long as the body can run on sugar it will never burn the fat you're trying to get rid of.

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nituanuj786 (53) · 6 years ago

Most people in India prefer jiggery after meals.
But do you know that many secrets of health are hidden along with taste? Yes, jaggery removes diseases related to your stomach. This strengthens the digestive tract and also enhances the skin. Let's know what else jaggery is beneficial for you.

Sodium and potassium are found in jar. It is helpful in controlling the amount of acid in the body, which also keeps blood pressure in control.
Jigs contain antioxidants and minerals which strengthen our immune system. Its use provides relief from diseases such as colds and colds.

It brings out harmful toxins from our blood and improves the blood flow in the body. It keeps our liver healthy.
Iron Source-
Junk contains plenty of iron. This is very beneficial for people with anemia.

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jmfastfood (28) · 6 years ago

i know sugar is a bad as cocaine but all the word 90% use the sugar let me know why sugar is cocaine

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sugarfix (55) · 6 years ago

How many years can you live on a diet of cocaine alone with no other "nutritional" foods?

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praditya (62) · 6 years ago

Sugar is not at all healthy, I use honey and gudh instead of it. that's healthy and more sweet than sugar.

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viraldrome (67) · 6 years ago

I quit the sugar after rotting out a perfetly good tooth that is going to cost me a fortune in dentist bills

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sugarfix (55) · 6 years ago

Sigh - In the not too distant past when water supplies were not so safe people in the West and Africa would drink something called "small beer". This was a lightly alcoholic fermented gruel/drink. One litre of this had the equivalent of about 40 spoons of sugar. This amount makes the sugary sodas of today quite bland in comparison. This was drunk as a direct replacement for water.

Let's look at sugary soda consumption today.

Number one consumer in the world - USA. Most obese nation in the world - USA.
Number two consumer in the world - Japan. Slenderest nation in the world (and longest lived) - Japan.
Lowest consumer of sugary sodas (and sugar in general) India. 5th most obese nation in the world India.

Clearly from these stats you can see there is no pattern that links sugar with obesity. The stats are all over the place. The cause of obesity will be a number of factors only one of which will be the overconsumption of sugar. The key factor in preventing obesity (and illnesses in general) is to have a balanced diet.

Fun fact - You brain cannot function without sugar whereas other organs can (this is not classed as addiction). After long periods without sugar your brain starts to process ketone bodies for energy. After 3-5 days the metabolites of ketone bodies start to poison your brain and cause brain damage. It is recommended that if going on a fast that you take a small amount of sugar every day or couple of days so that you don't get brain damage.

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scotchdog (25) · 6 years ago (edited)

Glucose is what your body, and every other living thing on earth, uses for energy. Sugar or sucrose roughly 50% glucose and 50% fructose.

High fructose corn syrup is roughly 55% fructose. The fructose is the problem not glucose. It is metabolized in the liver much like alcohol and has many of the same long run health issues.

I won't argue any of your other points but any time someone points out issues with sugar it is the fructose that is causing issues.

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sugarfix (55) · 6 years ago

Except that fructose is the main sugar in fruit.

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scotchdog (25) · 6 years ago

While I'm not sure that is really a counterpoint to anything I've said the answer is the amount of fructose varies and it is surrounded by a protecting layer of fiber
https://thepaleodiet.com/fruits-and-sugars/ (just the first link I found, not a paleo person)

The fiber tells you to stop eating, it tells your brain it is full, it feeds your healthy gut bacteria. See how much fructose you can consume when you take apples and make apple juice vs having to eat that those same apples straight. Most people stop eating a long time before they get to 3-4 apples for just one cup of juice.

If sugar is a poison then fiber is the antidote.

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sugarfix (55) · 6 years ago

What do you mean by "a protecting layer of fibre"? Fibre plays no role in the metabolism of fructose. Please don't link to sites that have zero science in them. They are populist echo sounding boxes. Take this statement from your link

Domesticated fruits are almost always larger, sweeter, and contain less fiber than their wild counterparts. Compare a Golden Delicious apple to a crab apple and you begin to get the picture.

Crab apples are domesticated and NOT wild. They were bred for their pollination agnosticism and long pollination periods. Every orchard will have a fixed percentage of crab apple trees for this purpose.
The term "wild" is inappropriate for plants and is not used by scientists.
Not all apples are bred to be sweet and is just one category from several.
Not all apples are bred for their juice.

8-10 apples are needed for 1 litre of juice. A large glass of juice will contain about 2 apples and more sugar than an equal sized glass of coke. Are you seriously telling me that you could not eat 2 apples.

The feeling of satiety (being full) is not triggered by fibre or bulk but by the level of sugar. The presence stops ghrelin production (the hunger hormone). This is the reason that you have something sweet after your main course - to make you feel full. If you eat something sweet before your main course you don't generally want to eat it.

Sugar is as much of a poison as water.

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scotchdog (25) · 6 years ago

I gave you a disclaimer on the link, first one i found that showed that sucrose levels vary in fruit. If you don't like it that's fine, I don't claim anything on it (and said as much), I was just trying to show that levels vary from fruit to fruit. So... I won't defend anything else there (maybe it is right maybe it is wrong).

I'm saying that it is far easier to eat a glass of juice than a whole apple. The first source I found said 3 'medium' sized apples per cup of juice. A cup is pretty small but isn't that far off from your estimate. Fiber slows how fast the sugar hits your system, it slows digestion. It limits how much you can consume and how quickly. Sugar is made up of fructose and glucose. The fructose does not engage satiety glucose may very well do that. I'm only saying that fructose is bad. We've probably made some mistakes moving back and forth between those two terms (sugar/fructose/glucose) since they aren't the same thing but it is easy to do.

I feel like this is digressing as a discussion somewhat. This is what I'm starting from:

sorry it is so long, i'd feel it is worth watching. There isn't any pseudoscience there but you could probably tone down the alarm a bit.

Short version is here:

Worth watching no matter who you are but if you don't feel like watching the takeaway is that fructose (50% of sugar) is processed by the body mostly the same way as alcohol and has most of the same long term affects on health. It is not, in any way, comparable to water consumption.

If you can reference how fructose metabolism isn't bad for you I'd be interested.

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sugarfix (55) · 6 years ago

I think everyone knows that different fruit contain different amounts of sugar. In the same way a dog is different to a cat regarding mammals. It would be a bigger shock if different fruit all contained the same amount of sugar and all of the same type.

The ease of eating/drinking does not change how the various sugars are metabolised

Fiber slows how fast the sugar hits your system, it slows digestion.

Can you show how it does this in scientific terms as it was not what I was taught. It also would counter your argument if it were true - Something that slowed down digestion would not stop ghrelin production fast enough. Thus eating an apple as opposed to drinking the juice would leave you feeling hungry.

Instead of giving me a video that is 1 hour 30 to watch can you link to the times in video that back up your arguments.

As far as the sugar is as bad as alcohol video goes that is a strawman falacy - Pick something which has a negative image and make a tenuous link to it and in doing so spread that negative image to said argument. This is a mendacious practice that is used by populists to bend reality.

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scotchdog (25) · 6 years ago (edited)

So to the main point on sugar, it is not a straw man. The way the human body metabolizes fructose (50% of sugar) is very similar to how it metabolizes alcohol. That isn't surprising because we just ferment sugar to get alcohol. There isn't any tenuous link, they are very similar compounds that are processed by the body similarly. The video isn't associating them because they have many of the same long term health affects (which they do) or because alcohol is a convenient boogie man but because they are handled by the body the same. The comparison is appropriate, for specifics we can look at these three examples.

Examples of metabolizing 120 calories of glucose, alcohol, and sugar. If you have to watch just one watch the sucrose (sugar) metabolism at 56:30.

Glucose metabolism (50% of sugar, not bad for you)

(starts roughly 45min in and finishes at 51:10)

Ethanol metabolism (alcohol, not good for you. An acute toxin)

(starts at... 51:10, could skip to 53:00 ends roughly 56:30)

Sucrose Metabolism (this is Sugar, made up of 50% glucose and 50% fructose)

(starts roughly 56:30 ends around 1:10)

I included the fruit reference to show that fruit contains different amounts of fructose relative to each other (not sugar) and you're right this line of discussion is probably a distraction from the main point I'm trying to make, which is that fructose (and by extension sugar with is 50% fructose, or "high fructose corn syrup" which is 55% fructose) is bad for you. The fiber discussion is also a distraction at this point. Weather it has no effect, slows or speeds absorption of fructose how the body metabolizes fructose is the same.

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opera.shoujo (56) · 6 years ago

So sad. Sugar is sometimes the only thing that makes me eat or drink something, indeed. I mean, I know how harmful it is, but what would be life without sugar?
I'll share just an isolated opinion, cause I actually like your post and appreciate all the information in it... In my case, I'm already living a life which is ruled by scarcity and lack of many things, because I'm Venezuelan and... Well, that's enough said. So I wouldn't remove sugar from my already depressing diet unless it were necessary :(

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kingyus (59) · 6 years ago

stopped sugar 1 year now...wow... my soul thanks me!

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smmtrade (39) · 6 years ago

Great info! thanks

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hustletoparadise (67) · 6 years ago

Of course sugar is bad .. most of it is artificial. Now natural sugar coming from fruits is just fine!

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jaypoi25 (27) · 6 years ago

oh..... I love sweet foods but knowing this i can now minimize nyah...

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irfan786 (34) · 6 years ago

I like sweet food you are a good dear brother

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online87700 (44) · 6 years ago

Co aim is better than sugar , because we can quit Cocain but we cannot quit sugar , thank you for this realisation bro

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kp33 (37) · 6 years ago

I've stopped using granulated white sugar and only use cane sugar and even at that I really try to limit my consumption of it. Also try to use honey and eat fruit. Also try use honey. But everything within limits.
As the Ancient Greeks used to say everything in moderation.

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astralprojector (25) · 6 years ago

I started the carnivore diet about a month ago and feel way better. I think it's mostly because cutting sugar out of my diet. Sugar makes you completely impulsive.

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astralprojector (25) · 6 years ago

I started the carnivore diet about a month ago. I feel light years better both mentally and physically. I think a large part of it has to do with cutting sugar out.

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andre62 (37) · 6 years ago

Yea I agree 100% my friend, sugar is very unhealthy and we do not need it in our daily diets.

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gabrielaraujo (40) · 6 years ago

ummm but its sooooo good :( nutellaaaaaaa, oreo´s... so bad but so gooooood :(

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soldieroftruth (25) · 6 years ago

Definitely all about balance and certainly not all ways of diet have an equal effect on all people. I think the important thing is that as a human collective we seen to be learning how much sugar is actually in the food/drink we consume and to be more mindful of that consumption.

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dilarasofia (40) · 6 years ago

because sugar is a carbohydrate that is naturally present in a number of foods such as milk, fruits and honey. For one particular condition, sugar is so needed in the daily diet as energy that is useful to keep the muscles and brain functioning properly.

However, now there are countless more how many foods and drinks are given additional sugar with a considerable amount. As a result, the level of blood sugar in the body also increases.

Even experts have blamed sugar as the cause of obesity and the obesity epidemic in the world. And also includes risk factors for type two diabetes, heart disease, and Alzheimer's.

Usually, when we talk about sugar, we will refer to table sugar derived from sugar cane. Table sugar is also known as sucrose, a combination of 50 percent glucose and 50 percent fructose. Glucose and fructose are needed because they will be processed differently in the body. But processing both have serious consequences for health.

naturally fructose is found in foods such as fruits, vegetables, and nuts, but that does not mean to your health. Glucose is processed in the intestine during digestion and is used by all cells in the body.

High-fructose-rich foods have been linked to a number of chronic health conditions, such as slow metabolism, high cholesterol, heart disease, liver cirrhosis, hypertension, obesity, and gout.

Fructose also causes leptin resistance, which is a hormone that determines satiety.

The American Heart Association and WHO recommend that additional daily sugar intake should be nine teaspoons (38 grams) for men and six teaspoons (25 grams) for women

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shoaib435 (27) · 6 years ago

i use three spoon sugar at tea.

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nitishgoyalstar (25) · 6 years ago

its really bad for our health

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pushpen (41) · 6 years ago

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