Natural Sugar (fruit/milk) vs Added Sugars

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  • yarwell
    yarwell Posts: 10,477 Member
    If setting out to eat 200g of sugar a day just acknowledge there's no evidence of safety beyond "generally regarded as safe". There are studies where the top end consumption of some fruits (when not conflated into fruitandvegetables) clearly increase risk of certain non-communicable diseases.
  • Lounmoun
    Lounmoun Posts: 8,423 Member
    taviyiya wrote: »
    How do you all handle the issue with sugar? Do you differentiate between natural sugars and added sugars? Any advice you can give about counting mine?

    I don't track sugar intake and don't differentiate between kinds of sugar. I do look at the report on sugar occasionally and I am usually well under the amount MFP recommends. I use sugar in cooking sometimes but I don't add it to foods or drinks. I drink mostly water or unsweetened tea. I tend to eat more vegetables than fruits.
    I watch my calories and try to get enough protein. It seems that when I do that most of the other stuff takes care of itself.
  • MorganMoreaux
    MorganMoreaux Posts: 691 Member
    yarwell wrote: »
    If setting out to eat 200g of sugar a day just acknowledge there's no evidence of safety beyond "generally regarded as safe". There are studies where the top end consumption of some fruits (when not conflated into fruitandvegetables) clearly increase risk of certain non-communicable diseases.

    Not certain where you're going with this, but I can't help but to feel you are targeting me to be used as some example, to what end I don't know. I don't see the issue of having days where my sugar consumption is high. I don't suffer from inflammation, nor do I have any other health issues, nor do I take any type of medication, because ironically, high sugar consumption and all, I'm healthy. At the end of the day, my macros are well balanced, as I don't subsist on fruit alone. My post was in response to the OP's question regarding sugar, and was not meant to be a discussion item in and of itself to be scrutinized. If you want to have a discussion regarding the upper limits of sugar consumption with regards to epidemiology, I recommend that you start a new thread as that is not what the OP was questioning, and this is a derailment to her query. I suggest when starting your own thread that you include links to the studies you reference.
  • I_Will_End_You
    I_Will_End_You Posts: 4,397 Member
    distinctlybeautiful wrote: »
    I_Will_End_You wrote: »
    I don't even track sugar, I swapped it out for iron on my profile instead. Are you diabetic? If not, I wouldn't worry about going over on sugar, especially considering it's from fruit and milk.

    @I_Will_End_You Does this mean you no longer see your sugar intake at all? If so, how did you do that? Thanks!

    Settings > diary settings > nutrients tracked. Use the drop downs to change sugar to something else.

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