Sugar Sugar Sugar Sugar!

Achrya

Excess sugar DOES cause metabolic syndromes and problems not seen in excess consumption of other macronutrients. Do a little reading on leptin, ghrelin, and insulin. Sugar has a very specific effect on insulin which changes the body's ability and capacity to store fat, use fat, etc. Putting your hands over your ears as if you are personally offended by this little bit of biology is ridiculous...

No one's saying you're a bad person for eating ice cream. There is just more and more science able to back up the fact that sugar is, in fact, a catalyst for weight gain in both its psychological addictiveness and effects on the hormone systems of the human body.

BTW, when "excess sugar" is mentioned, they don't mean in excess of someone's caloric goals... DUH. It means in excess of what is a normal amount of sugar to consume incidentally, in milk and veggies and fruit etc - too much sugar *within* a caloric allowance.

I kno, rite? I hear it's the new tobacco.

Light the torches, grab the pitchforks!

I thought sugar was the new fat? I'm so behind. The 200 some odd grams of sugar I had today must be melting my brain.