sugar is toxic

It took 3 weeks to get it out of my system.

Get what out of your system? Sugar?

That doesn't even make any sense at all. It's in fact physically impossible. If you actually magically removed all the sugar from your body, you would literally drop dead. If you tried to remove it slowly, your body would just take the things you eat and your own body tissues and literally convert them to sugar.

Love!

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7403942n

No sugar? Eff that. Because cupcakes.

And brownies and cookies and ice cream!

It took 3 weeks to get it out of my system.

Get what out of your system? Sugar?

That doesn't even make any sense at all. It's in fact physically impossible. If you actually magically removed all the sugar from your body, you would literally drop dead. If you tried to remove it slowly, your body would just take the things you eat and your own body tissues and literally convert them to sugar.

Agreed; that makes NO sense. Your body takes any carbohydrates you consume and converts it to glucose in order to further convert it to pyruvate (which provides energy in the presence of oxygen). This pyruvate can even be converted back into glucose (along with some of the proteins and amino acids you ingest) to aid in keeping you from experiencing hypoglycemia.

You did NOT rid your body of glucose. If you did, you'd be dead.

People often fail to understand the function of sugar. The reality is, without the presence of it, your muscles could not function.

Clearly, sugar is toxic. (And the lemons ain't lookin' too legit, either)

You know what else is toxic?
Poison. True story.

Stop listening to the Kombucha mushroom people! All they do is sit around all day!

<3ha! Yes! nice!

It took 3 weeks to get it out of my system.

Get what out of your system? Sugar?

That doesn't even make any sense at all. It's in fact physically impossible. If you actually magically removed all the sugar from your body, you would literally drop dead. If you tried to remove it slowly, your body would just take the things you eat and your own body tissues and literally convert them to sugar.

Agreed; that makes NO sense. Your body takes any carbohydrates you consume and converts it to glucose in order to further convert it to pyruvate (which provides energy in the presence of oxygen). This pyruvate can even be converted back into glucose (along with some of the proteins and amino acids you ingest) to aid in keeping you from experiencing hypoglycemia.

You did NOT rid your body of glucose. If you did, you'd be dead.

Indeed. The body keeps actual free blood sugar within pretty strict limits: about 80 to 110 mg/dL. If you actually get much below 80, you'll experience all sorts of unpleasant symptoms like lightheadedness and you'll pass out.

I believe the quote was to reduce sugar in the diet to reduce cravings which is why many go lower in carbs, I could be wrong, but I'll assume the poster knows the difference.

The quote I was responding to was:

"look up a book called "Sugar Blues"....it is toxic in many ways. It took 3 weeks to get it out of my system. For one thing it is a major depressant. And yet I've heard so many people say they'd rather be depressed than give up sugar....that's addiction."

That's why I quoted it.

It took 3 weeks to get it out of my system.

Get what out of your system? Sugar?

That doesn't even make any sense at all. It's in fact physically impossible. If you actually magically removed all the sugar from your body, you would literally drop dead. If you tried to remove it slowly, your body would just take the things you eat and your own body tissues and literally convert them to sugar.

Agreed; that makes NO sense. Your body takes any carbohydrates you consume and converts it to glucose in order to further convert it to pyruvate (which provides energy in the presence of oxygen). This pyruvate can even be converted back into glucose (along with some of the proteins and amino acids you ingest) to aid in keeping you from experiencing hypoglycemia.

You did NOT rid your body of glucose. If you did, you'd be dead.

Indeed. The body keeps actual free blood sugar within pretty strict limits: about 80 to 110 mg/dL. If you actually get much below 80, you'll experience all sorts of unpleasant symptoms like lightheadedness and you'll pass out.

I believe the quote was to reduce sugar in the diet to reduce cravings which is why many go lower in carbs, I could be wrong, but I'll assume the poster knows the difference.

The quote I was responding to was:

"look up a book called "Sugar Blues"....it is toxic in many ways. It took 3 weeks to get it out of my system. For one thing it is a major depressant. And yet I've heard so many people say they'd rather be depressed than give up sugar....that's addiction."

That's why I quoted it.

For those of you who are saying that sugar feeds cancer, where can I find this information? I vaguely recall reading about it in some newspaper article, but when I search for "sugar and cancer" on the PubMed site, I only find results that suggest sugar doesn't play a part in cancer growth:

Dietary patterns and colorectal cancer recurrence and survival: a cohort study.
"Disease-free survival (DFS) among CRC patients was significantly worsened among patients with a high processed meat dietary pattern (the highest vs the lowest quartile HR 1.82, 95% CI 1.07 to 3.09). No associations were observed with the prudent vegetable or the high-sugar patterns and DFS."
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23396503

Sugary food and beverage consumption and epithelial ovarian cancer risk: a population-based case--control study.
"Overall, we found little indication that sugar intake played a major role on ovarian cancer development."
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23442818

Dietary proportions of carbohydrates, fat, and protein and risk of oesophageal cancer by histological type.
"A diet with a low proportion of carbohydrates and a high proportion of fat might increase the risk of oesophageal adenocarcinoma."
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23349988

So tell me more about how your brain breaks the laws of thermodynamics...

Hey OP

Sorry your post got away from you with all of these jokers and bullies. Sugar is an extremely DANGEROUS substance. It's highly addictive (some even compare to big scary drugs like heroin and crystal methamphetamine). I know a few friends that experimented with sugar in high school. This was in the early 90s when sugar was pretty the IN thing to do. At first it was relatively casual. Just . . . you know . . . a bit of maple syrup at breakfast or some honey with their evening tea. Now they're doing very dirty things in back alley ways just to get a fix.

You'd be wise to avoid it.

When it comes to putting toxins in your body - you will find that you are doing that by much more than just sugar. Most of the crap that people consume is constantly clogging their cells with toxins.

You wont have to worry much about this if you try to eat just as much if not more food and things that have antioxidants in them. Like for instance flax seed- put it in your oatmeal, yogurt, smoothies etc. Put lemon in your water - most green vegetable also have antioxidants in them so make those regular snacks.

I am just saying sugar is just a small part of the reason for the toxins in your body and sometimes it is easier to focus on the opposite- the anti- oxidants. You might be interested to know also that a lot of toxins actually prevents fat burning - so of course, another could reason to have a diet rich in antioxidants.

"Antioxidant" doesn't mean "destroys toxins."

What "toxins" are our cells getting "clogged" with?

When it comes to putting toxins in your body - you will find that you are doing that by much more than just sugar. Most of the crap that people consume is constantly clogging their cells with toxins.

You wont have to worry much about this if you try to eat just as much if not more food and things that have antioxidants in them. Like for instance flax seed- put it in your oatmeal, yogurt, smoothies etc. Put lemon in your water - most green vegetable also have antioxidants in them so make those regular snacks.

I am just saying sugar is just a small part of the reason for the toxins in your body and sometimes it is easier to focus on the opposite- the anti- oxidants. You might be interested to know also that a lot of toxins actually prevents fat burning - so of course, another could reason to have a diet rich in antioxidants.

"Antioxidant" doesn't mean "destroys toxins."

What "toxins" are our cells getting "clogged" with?

An antioxidant is a reducing agent- kind of how it prevents gasoline from gumming together it is the same concept. I got this information from a documentary called "Hungry for Change" - you should check it out.