sugar is toxic

you are a major smart *kitten*. In this case "toxins" is referring to all the **** you take in your body with everyday processed foods. When you look at the ingredients on a package you certainly know what I am referring to. If you have never seen it and don't know what I am talking about then maybe you should debunk it so quickly.

Then say "I'm removing the "stagnant" food coloring and things-I-can't-pronounce-so-I'm-just-gonna-call-them-toxins-to-scare-people from my body".

you are a major smart *kitten*. In this case "toxins" is referring to all the **** you take in your body with everyday processed foods. When you look at the ingredients on a package you certainly know what I am referring to. If you have never seen it and don't know what I am talking about then maybe you should debunk it so quickly.

Then say "I'm removing the "stagnant" food coloring and things-I-can't-pronounce-so-I'm-just-gonna-call-them-toxins-to-scare-people from my body".

The vitamins I've been taking have pyridoxine hydrochloride in them! These toxins are clogging up my cells!

Wait.... that's vitamin B6? Oh, so it's got "vitamin" in the name now. Awesome, it's healthy now!

I don't mean to make fun, but this is the sort of thing this is about. Yes chemical names can be very intimidating if you don't know what the compounds are. But that doesn't mean they're toxins. Your body is full of chemicals with names that would look terrifying on the ingredients list of a Pop Tart.

It's easy and convenient to just assume "processed" food is full of all these "toxins" with names you've never heard of. That's intellectually bankrupt though.

It's funny how long names in vitamins are 'ok', but as soon as they hit a label, they are a toxin, huh?

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/27/its-the-sugar-folks/?smid=tw-share

I am by far, no expert. But I have been told that processed sugar is awful for you. I have heard that the best sugar to consume is raw sugar. But still in high moderation. Sugar quickly turns to fat, causes your blood sugar levels to spike, gives you that 'crash' feeling, etc.

It's probably best not to advise people about "toxins" and "antioxidants" if you have no understanding of what they are.

I know what antioxidants are. Can you give me some examples of the "toxins" in our foods that clog our cells and antioxidants fight off?

Lovely. :drinker:

I was referring to her, not you, but please go on. I'll listen.

Oh, my apologies. You quoted me, so I thought you were talking about me.

this thread is super entertaining.

you are a major smart *kitten*. In this case "toxins" is referring to all the **** you take in your body with everyday processed foods. When you look at the ingredients on a package you certainly know what I am referring to. If you have never seen it and don't know what I am talking about then maybe you should debunk it so quickly.

Then say "I'm removing the "stagnant" food coloring and things-I-can't-pronounce-so-I'm-just-gonna-call-them-toxins-to-scare-people from my body".

The vitamins I've been taking have pyridoxine hydrochloride in them! These toxins are clogging up my cells!

Wait.... that's vitamin B6? Oh, so it's got "vitamin" in the name now. Awesome, it's healthy now!

I don't mean to make fun, but this is the sort of thing this is about. Yes chemical names can be very intimidating if you don't know what the compounds are. But that doesn't mean they're toxins. Your body is full of chemicals with names that would look terrifying on the ingredients list of a Pop Tart.

It's easy and convenient to just assume "processed" food is full of all these "toxins" with names you've never heard of. That's intellectually bankrupt though.

It's funny how long names in vitamins are 'ok', but as soon as they hit a label, they are a toxin, huh?

And you know, virtually all vitamins have harmful effects in high doses. Just like sugar. And sodium. And fat.

Anything, in too high a dose, will be bad for you, especially if the high dose is chronic. Iron, colloidal silver, fish oil, vitamin A, raspberry ketones, whatever. That doesn't mean these things are toxins. Yes, chronically high levels of sugar are bad for you. But sugar is not a toxin. If your blood stream were ever glucose-free, you would literally drop dead. If you ate no sodium for a while, you would develop *serious* issues.

Sugar, in moderation, is a healthy and normal thing.

hi. i read here a bunch that really processed foods and foods with preservatives are bad for you. but ive also heard a bunch of people say that sugar is toxic!?! does anyone know what sort of toxins come from sugar?

carbon dioxide and hydrogen monoxide are by-products of the breakdown of sugar. Your cells metabolise sugar into these two chemicals, each of which can kill you. If carbon dioxide builds up on your blood it'll kill you. And the perils of hydrogen monoxide have been widely publicised online, a quick google search will reveal them to you.

Oxygen is also toxic, and it's explosive too. In fact oxygen is what enables sugar to be broken down in your cells to carbon dioxide and hydrogen monoxide in the first place. Additionally, a 50% mixture between oxygen and any airbourne combustable substance, including very innocent things like icing sugar, is explosive. Oxygen is highly dangerous.

We must stop eating sugar in all its forms, and also stop breathing in oxygen, in order to protect our bodies from the horror of carbon dioxide and hydrogen monoxide, caused by the breakdown of sugar in our cells.

you are a major smart *kitten*. In this case "toxins" is referring to all the **** you take in your body with everyday processed foods. When you look at the ingredients on a package you certainly know what I am referring to. If you have never seen it and don't know what I am talking about then maybe you should debunk it so quickly.

And you're absolutely rude!
They weren't being mean, just asking a question.
And you jumped down their throats.


Btw, you have an error in your post, besides the bull about toxins.

how do I delete the comments that arent serious?

close your eyes.

:flowerforyou: :drinker:

If you search Youtube for "rocket fuel from sugar" you can see just how dangerous sugar is. Eat too much, and

Sugar broke up with me and stole my mothers car.

:drinker:

Google "Nancy Appleton". She goes over why sugar is bad for you and how it manifests itself in various health problems we have today. To give you a simple explanation of what happens in the body...

Insulin: A metabolic hormone with many vital functions. One of them is producing and storing body fat from excess carbohydrates.

Glucagon: Another metabolic hormone, with opposing functions to Insulin. Glucagon unlocks fat storages and releases fat for energy purposes.

Insulin and Glucagon are opposing paired hormones. This means that when one goes up the other goes down. They are the master controllers of metabolism and serve opposite functions.

In a simple study, researchers injected a group of rats with Insulin and another group with Glucagon. The group that received Insulin gained body fat. The group that received Glucagon lost body fat.

The Insulin/Glucagon ratio is the key for health, body composition, mental productivity and energy levels.

Your body is an energy machine, never resting, always metabolically active, and it powers its operations mainly using Glucose (a basic form of sugar). In the body, all carbohydrates finally break down to Glucose (blood sugar). The body must have the Glucose and even in starvation, it is able to convert other substances (fat and muscle) to Glucose, to maintain its normal level.

When you eat any carbohydrates, they break down to sugars and finally to Glucose. The Glucose rushes into your blood quickly; in other words, your blood sugar level will rise sharply. Your body makes an instant decision of how much of that pure energy goes for immediate needs and how much will it store. The tool of this decision is Insulin, which regulates the processing of blood sugar. A small amount of carbohydrate intake generates a small Insulin response. A large amount of carbohydrate intake generates a large Insulin response.

Insulin does three things to blood sugar:
1. Transports one part of blood sugar to the cells to take care of immediate energy demand. This is a bypass of your own energy production system.
2. Stores another part of blood sugar in carbo-storages in the muscles and liver.
3. Converts the leftover blood sugar to fat and stores it as BODY FAT.

Insulin is also a fat storage and locking hormone. In other words, it makes you fat and it keeps you fat.

Glucagon serves the opposite functions of Insulin. Just as Insulin is a fat storage and locking hormone, Glucagon is an unlocking and fat burning hormone.

You want to raise Glucagon levels and lower Insulin levels if you want to be healthy and have a healthy body weight. Glucagon aims to correct imbalances that create body fat storage and blocks fat burning.

Carbohydrates trigger Insulin (fat storage).

Proteins trigger Glucagon (fat burning).

Fats (and Oils) do not have an effect on either Insulin or Glucagon when they are consumed alone.

When you shift your metabolic system to fat burning, your body produces its own energy instead of being bypassed by sugars. That IS your metabolism at work.

Breathing is toxic. So to everyone who keeps with the sugar is toxic BS, please stop breathing that way you'll be toxin free and stop polluting forums.

I live inside a vacuum so I have this sorted already. Phew.

Just so we're clear... Protein is also highly insulinogenic.

Additionally, there are functions in which the body needs glucose. I think you misunderstand that your body is not capable of producing all essential nutrients through burning fat and muscle.

Google "Nancy Appleton". She goes over why sugar is bad for you and how it manifests itself in various health problems we have today. To give you a simple explanation of what happens in the body...

Insulin: A metabolic hormone with many vital functions. One of them is producing and storing body fat from excess carbohydrates.

Glucagon: Another metabolic hormone, with opposing functions to Insulin. Glucagon unlocks fat storages and releases fat for energy purposes.

Insulin and Glucagon are opposing paired hormones. This means that when one goes up the other goes down. They are the master controllers of metabolism and serve opposite functions.

In a simple study, researchers injected a group of rats with Insulin and another group with Glucagon. The group that received Insulin gained body fat. The group that received Glucagon lost body fat.

The Insulin/Glucagon ratio is the key for health, body composition, mental productivity and energy levels.

Your body is an energy machine, never resting, always metabolically active, and it powers its operations mainly using Glucose (a basic form of sugar). In the body, all carbohydrates finally break down to Glucose (blood sugar). The body must have the Glucose and even in starvation, it is able to convert other substances (fat and muscle) to Glucose, to maintain its normal level.

When you eat any carbohydrates, they break down to sugars and finally to Glucose. The Glucose rushes into your blood quickly; in other words, your blood sugar level will rise sharply. Your body makes an instant decision of how much of that pure energy goes for immediate needs and how much will it store. The tool of this decision is Insulin, which regulates the processing of blood sugar. A small amount of carbohydrate intake generates a small Insulin response. A large amount of carbohydrate intake generates a large Insulin response.

Insulin does three things to blood sugar:
1. Transports one part of blood sugar to the cells to take care of immediate energy demand. This is a bypass of your own energy production system.
2. Stores another part of blood sugar in carbo-storages in the muscles and liver.
3. Converts the leftover blood sugar to fat and stores it as BODY FAT.

Insulin is also a fat storage and locking hormone. In other words, it makes you fat and it keeps you fat.

Glucagon serves the opposite functions of Insulin. Just as Insulin is a fat storage and locking hormone, Glucagon is an unlocking and fat burning hormone.

You want to raise Glucagon levels and lower Insulin levels if you want to be healthy and have a healthy body weight. Glucagon aims to correct imbalances that create body fat storage and blocks fat burning.

Carbohydrates trigger Insulin (fat storage).

Proteins trigger Glucagon (fat burning).

Fats (and Oils) do not have an effect on either Insulin or Glucagon when they are consumed alone.

When you shift your metabolic system to fat burning, your body produces its own energy instead of being bypassed by sugars. That IS your metabolism at work.