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SUGAR what's your view

bobby19666
bobby19666 Posts: 57 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
I mean the bad kind and gi foods such as simple carbs. Personally i don't see it as a reason for weight gain
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  • diannethegeek
    diannethegeek Posts: 14,776 Member
    I'm just going to drop this link here, since we all know how this is going to end.

    http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10197460/sugar-faq-june-2015
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    my view is that it's not the simple black and white matter you try to make it out to be.

    also, simple carbs kick *kitten* the night before a 50 mile ride...just sayin'
  • isulo_kura
    isulo_kura Posts: 818 Member
    I take it daily
  • juggernaut1974
    juggernaut1974 Posts: 6,212 Member
    It's delicious
  • PeachyCarol
    PeachyCarol Posts: 8,029 Member
    I like potatoes and ice cream. Not together, though.
  • Hornsby
    Hornsby Posts: 10,322 Member
    edited July 2015
    It's super yummy and has helped me go from 250lbs to 175 / 11% body fat. I am grateful for it, otherwise I could not complete 40-150 mile bike rides or lift heavy things.
  • Chief_Rocka
    Chief_Rocka Posts: 4,710 Member
    I find that every time I eat complex carbs my body breaks it down into glucose. I figured I may as well cut out the middle man.
  • TheVirgoddess
    TheVirgoddess Posts: 4,535 Member
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  • Chief_Rocka
    Chief_Rocka Posts: 4,710 Member
    TheVirgoddess wrote: »
    sugar.gif

    I want to know what you googled to find that
  • diannethegeek
    diannethegeek Posts: 14,776 Member
    Chief_Rocka wrote: »
    I find that every time I eat complex carbs my body breaks it down into glucose. I figured I may as well cut out the middle man.

    Your avatar! :drinker:

  • pf1975_NW
    pf1975_NW Posts: 266 Member
    message me mate for my opinion - It's both good and bad but depends on when you take it in!
  • betuel75
    betuel75 Posts: 776 Member
    Hornsby wrote: »
    It's super yummy and has helped me go from 250lbs to 175 / 11% body fat. I am grateful for it, otherwise I could not complete 40-150 mile bike rides or lift heavy things.

    yup, donuts are necessary for my bike rides...
  • blukitten
    blukitten Posts: 922 Member
    Oh come on- its not even Friday people- stick with the program- Sugar, carb, and clean eating debates are only on Fridays-- its an unwritten rule right? lol

    I suggest the link that @diannethegeek suggested
  • TheVirgoddess
    TheVirgoddess Posts: 4,535 Member
    Chief_Rocka wrote: »
    TheVirgoddess wrote: »
    sugar.gif

    I want to know what you googled to find that

    I wish I could say something clever, but it was literally just sugar gifs
  • Chief_Rocka
    Chief_Rocka Posts: 4,710 Member
    pf1975_NW wrote: »
    message me mate for my opinion - It's both good and bad but depends on when you take it in!

    Welcome to 1998
  • Hornsby
    Hornsby Posts: 10,322 Member
    pf1975_NW wrote: »
    message me mate for my opinion - It's both good and bad but depends on when you take it in!
    ie: I don't really know, but I do have an opinion, but I'm too scared to post it.
  • jmule24
    jmule24 Posts: 1,382 Member
    I view it as a carbohydrate........... because SCIENCE says so.
  • 970Mikaela1
    970Mikaela1 Posts: 2,013 Member
    Mmmmm.
  • abatonfan
    abatonfan Posts: 1,120 Member
    It depends on if my ochem professor wants me to draw it as a Hayworth or Fischer structure (or as a pyranose or furanose ring).
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  • midpath
    midpath Posts: 246 Member
    Sugars that are not from fruits and veggies and dairy - unnecessary and hold zero nutrition. Just extra calories. Bad for teeth. Okay every once in a great while but personally, I don't eat them every day.
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  • Hornsby
    Hornsby Posts: 10,322 Member
    midpath wrote: »
    Sugars that are not from fruits and veggies and dairy - unnecessary and hold zero nutrition. Just extra calories. Bad for teeth. Okay every once in a great while but personally, I don't eat them every day.

    Wait, so the simple sugar in fruit holds nutrition?
  • bobby19666
    bobby19666 Posts: 57 Member
    Hornsby wrote: »
    midpath wrote: »
    Sugars that are not from fruits and veggies and dairy - unnecessary and hold zero nutrition. Just extra calories. Bad for teeth. Okay every once in a great while but personally, I don't eat them every day.

    Wait, so the simple sugar in fruit holds nutrition?

    It fair to say eating a whole fruit is better than just drinking juice
  • br3adman
    br3adman Posts: 284 Member
    Hornsby wrote: »
    midpath wrote: »
    Sugars that are not from fruits and veggies and dairy - unnecessary and hold zero nutrition. Just extra calories. Bad for teeth. Okay every once in a great while but personally, I don't eat them every day.

    Wait, so the simple sugar in fruit holds nutrition?

    No but its better to eat an apple and plum vs a king size snickers bar and coke.
  • Hornsby
    Hornsby Posts: 10,322 Member
    Neither of those answer the question and you both have the right to your opinion although they don't answer the question. She said that the sugar in fruit holds nutrition.
  • midpath
    midpath Posts: 246 Member
    Okay I'll play your game. I eat fruit because the sugars in it combined with the fiber and nutrients are delicious and nutritious.

    I was asked for my opinion and my opinion is that if I'm going to eat sugar I should try to make most of it come from whole food sources. Not added, powdered, juiced, etc.

    I don't get why that's so hard to understand.
  • jmule24
    jmule24 Posts: 1,382 Member
    Hornsby wrote: »
    Neither of those answer the question and you both have the right to your opinion although they don't answer the question. She said that the sugar in fruit holds nutrition.

    She would be incorrect. And her opinion on sugar is also wrong. Why, because science says so.
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