Sugar???

The truth about sugar and fat:

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ADDED SUGAR is especially bad for you because it comes from refining or processing/mutating foods to allow a sweetener to be extracted. Corn starch as an example, they literally extract the starch from the corn so it can be used to sweeten foods unnaturally! Sugar the same with sugar beets and sugar canes. Things that naturally have sugar in it are slightly better for your body, but the body still doesn't like sugar. The only reason we eat fruit is for the nutrition, that's why fruit is considered a "dessert".

Everyone on MFP always says not to worry about 'natural' sugars coming from fruits and vegetables. This may not be so!!! I believed it because that really makes sense, but then I read the book "Wheat Belly" and it explained it in a different way. Fruits and vegetables (and wheat, for that matter) are natural foods that are grown from the earth, BUT they are not the same wholesome foods grown hundreds of years ago. Scientists have genetically modified almost everything to yield bigger crops that taste sweeter to match the growing population and competition. While f*ckin around with the plants genetic make-up they don't bother to test it for the nutritional properties that have been changed, and apparently wheat could possibly be responsible for all sorts of epidemics and diseases, including diabetes and obesity, as a result.

It says in the book that mangoes and pineapples are amongst the worst foods for causing insulin spikes. This upset me because they are my two favorite fruits in the world! Makes sense though, I guess I just loved all that sugar

Wheat Belly is a poorly written book with terribly misinterpreted, cherry picked research.

That said, yes, foods today are completely different from foods 100 years ago. And foods 100 years ago were completely different from foods 100 years before that. Humans have been genetically engineering and modifying foods for thousands of years. Carrots used to be purple (you can still occasionally find some) and cucumbers used to be poisonous. Several hundred years ago The Dutch tinkered with them to make cucumbers non-poisonous and carrots orange.

The truth about sugar and fat:

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The graphic you posted is actually not true. If you are eating in a calorie deficit, the body will NOT store fat. Our bodies need starches just as they need fiber. Lest we forget, carbohydrates are a macro nutrient. We need some every day. If you have a medical condition, you do need to make sure that you aren't eating too many carbs in one sitting. But for the rest of us, carbs are good, and we should be getting a fair amount different types of carbs in our daily diets.

Insulin does NOT play any kind of role in weight loss. The "insulin hypothesis" as it's been called has been completely debunked. Insulin regulates anabolism, growth hormone, muscle growth, and glycogen storage, (among several hundred other functions.) It has nothing to do with weight gain or loss. Weight gain and loss is solely based on energy balance, total calories consumed vs total calories burned, over long term period (generally weeks.)


While there are some people with legitimate metabolic conditions that need to limit carbohydrates to maintain their health, the vast majority of people who low carb "think" they are doing better on it because low carbing leads to a substantial loss of initial water weight. It's a mental thing, not biological.

Insulin does NOT play any kind of role in weight loss. The "insulin hypothesis" as it's been called has been completely debunked. Insulin regulates anabolism, growth hormone, muscle growth, and glycogen storage, (among several hundred other functions.) It has nothing to do with weight gain or loss. Weight gain and loss is solely based on energy balance, total calories consumed vs total calories burned, over long term period (generally weeks.)


While there are some people with legitimate metabolic conditions that need to limit carbohydrates to maintain their health, the vast majority of people who low carb "think" they are doing better on it because low carbing leads to a substantial loss of initial water weight. It's a mental thing, not biological.

I'm sorry to tell you this but I'm going to stop posting on the forums after today, so you'll have to find someone else to bully and make feel inferior to you. I hope that you can find some happiness in your life because picking on eager, sensitive, and passionate people like me can't be a very fulfilling hobby. Please try to feel better about your unemployment and your OBESITY; I'm unemployed too, but at least I'm LOSING WEIGHT and doing all of the house chores and child rearing....

So yeah, enjoy your nasty life of posting 4,000 replies on this forum... Oh and I found something for ya buddy (look at attached pic).




You have screwed up priorities buddy. Get a life and kiss your wife before she leaves you.

And every one of those 4100 posts are better than any single one of your 392. You argue with everyone, even if you are wrong, you just can't admit it.

Insulin does NOT play any kind of role in weight loss. The "insulin hypothesis" as it's been called has been completely debunked. Insulin regulates anabolism, growth hormone, muscle growth, and glycogen storage, (among several hundred other functions.) It has nothing to do with weight gain or loss. Weight gain and loss is solely based on energy balance, total calories consumed vs total calories burned, over long term period (generally weeks.)


While there are some people with legitimate metabolic conditions that need to limit carbohydrates to maintain their health, the vast majority of people who low carb "think" they are doing better on it because low carbing leads to a substantial loss of initial water weight. It's a mental thing, not biological.

I'm sorry to tell you this but I'm going to stop posting on the forums after today, so you'll have to find someone else to bully and make feel inferior to you. I hope that you can find some happiness in your life because picking on eager, sensitive, and passionate people like me can't be a very fulfilling hobby. Please try to feel better about your unemployment and your OBESITY; I'm unemployed too, but at least I'm LOSING WEIGHT and doing all of the house chores and child rearing....

So yeah, enjoy your nasty life of posting 4,000 replies on this forum... Oh and I found something for ya buddy (look at attached pic).




You have screwed up priorities buddy. Get a life and kiss your wife before she leaves you.

Insulin does NOT play any kind of role in weight loss. The "insulin hypothesis" as it's been called has been completely debunked. Insulin regulates anabolism, growth hormone, muscle growth, and glycogen storage, (among several hundred other functions.) It has nothing to do with weight gain or loss. Weight gain and loss is solely based on energy balance, total calories consumed vs total calories burned, over long term period (generally weeks.)


While there are some people with legitimate metabolic conditions that need to limit carbohydrates to maintain their health, the vast majority of people who low carb "think" they are doing better on it because low carbing leads to a substantial loss of initial water weight. It's a mental thing, not biological.

I'm sorry to tell you this but I'm going to stop posting on the forums after today, so you'll have to find someone else to bully and make feel inferior to you. I hope that you can find some happiness in your life because picking on eager, sensitive, and passionate people like me can't be a very fulfilling hobby. Please try to feel better about your unemployment and your OBESITY; I'm unemployed too, but at least I'm LOSING WEIGHT and doing all of the house chores and child rearing....

So yeah, enjoy your nasty life of posting 4,000 replies on this forum... Oh and I found something for ya buddy (look at attached pic).




You have screwed up priorities buddy. Get a life and kiss your wife before she leaves you.

Extreme over-reaction to someone simply providing a statement that disagreed with yours. Not ok. This is the internet - people are going to disagree with you.

Insulin does NOT play any kind of role in weight loss. The "insulin hypothesis" as it's been called has been completely debunked. Insulin regulates anabolism, growth hormone, muscle growth, and glycogen storage, (among several hundred other functions.) It has nothing to do with weight gain or loss. Weight gain and loss is solely based on energy balance, total calories consumed vs total calories burned, over long term period (generally weeks.)


While there are some people with legitimate metabolic conditions that need to limit carbohydrates to maintain their health, the vast majority of people who low carb "think" they are doing better on it because low carbing leads to a substantial loss of initial water weight. It's a mental thing, not biological.

I'm sorry to tell you this but I'm going to stop posting on the forums after today, so you'll have to find someone else to bully and make feel inferior to you. I hope that you can find some happiness in your life because picking on eager, sensitive, and passionate people like me can't be a very fulfilling hobby. Please try to feel better about your unemployment and your OBESITY; I'm unemployed too, but at least I'm LOSING WEIGHT and doing all of the house chores and child rearing....

So yeah, enjoy your nasty life of posting 4,000 replies on this forum... Oh and I found something for ya buddy (look at attached pic).




You have screwed up priorities buddy. Get a life and kiss your wife before she leaves you.

Extreme over-reaction to someone simply providing a statement that disagreed with yours. Not ok. This is the internet - people are going to disagree with you.

Other people said wrong things too, why pick on me?

I'm not picking on you. That's just your interpretation of the situation. I'm telling you that posting that picture and saying his wife was going to leave him was ridiculous. An overreaction to someone having an opinion that disagreed with yours. Uncalled for.

But this is good sugar!!! The sugar found naturally in fruits and vegetables doesn't cause the spike in blood sugar that processed foods cause because they're surrounded by fibre the body has to get to first! Fruits, veges and dairy shouldn't be avoided because of their natural sugar content, as the nutrients they give you are important, just remember you can have too much of a good thing! Avoiding processed foods with sugar is the best way to keep sugar down.

There's no difference between added sugar and fruit sugar, molecularly they are identical.

As long as your carbs and calories are in line with your goals, then sugar doesn't matter.

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