A calorie is not a calorie - proof sugar is the problem.

Man people get so defensive over their sugar. The main argument most of those videos the original poster listed are not saying that calories don't matter. Sugar consumption has shown to be a considerable factor in managing ones daily calories. I eat something sweet every day too that isn't the problem. People gaining weight on a SAD diet are eating sweets, pizzas, pastas, cookies, etc. Eating all that for a long time is damaging peoples metabolism. For over 30 years health experts have been blaming fat for everything while ignoring sugar and carbs.

i lost all of my weight (so far) while living in Colorado...

...therefore, living in Colorado is the only effective way to lose weight.

irrefutable conclusion is irrefutable!

:huh:

as for you, sweet Burro, sugar makes you drunk.

THE DRUNKEN BURRO (*kitten*)

One of my big weaknesses is animals. At creation God placed man in dominium over animals and with it came the ability to domesticate them for his use. With this command came the unsaid responsibility for showing respect, kindness and understanding for "dumb animals". This also created for man a responsibility for their care.

We all are familiar with the great Clydesdale draft horses of the Anheuser Busch Company. The company allows procurement of these horses when they are retired. Although large, they are, for the most part, very gentle,extremely well disciplined and trained animals. They make excellent breeding animals and good mothers. Tennessee walking horse mares, if not too high spirited, also make good mothers.

Due to his small size, mating the burros creates some breeding problems, but where there is a will, there is a way. The grand cannon burros make excellent farm watch dog type animals if you spend time and effort to teach him who is boss. This must be done very carefully. Their natural defense is biting and kicking, an art that has been highly developed and practiced intensely with deadly accuracy. These animals will eat every Canadian thistle down to the roots and pull the roots out of the ground. This weed has selenium, a trace mineral that is important to the animal's diet. Burros can kick a wild dog or coyote "to the promised land" if the burros catch them in a field where they watch the cattle, and calves.

The burros have one other trait that can get them into serious trouble and that trait is curiosity. They will investigate anything that they do not understand. A friend of mine wanted to borrow JACK to court his mares in north Alabama. Jack loves apples, peaches, sugar lumps, and anything that smells like sugar. My friend has a large farm and raises walking horses. He has a horse training area on a major Alabama highway and has rented the property to a convenience store with an attached bakery. This enterprise has a dumpster with doors in both ends. One end is adjacent to the pasture fence and Jack learned how get into the dumpster by using both front feet. Raw yeast dough, apples and other fruit created a good recipe. Jack now had all that it took, given his biological makeup, to become a miniature brewery. Intoxication set in rapidly and he was soon lying on the ground, "Drunk as a Skunk".

On Saturday morning the call came that Jack was sick and dying. He was foaming at the mouth and his tongue was hanging out of his mouth and flat on the ground. I immediately called the vet to see if it would be possible to save the critter. He had been an excellent stud and I did not want to lose this animal since he had sired several good colts. By Sunday morning he was up and sober. As I drove up to the pasture I saw him there, head first in the dumpster and thirty minutes later he was drunk again. Needless to say this ended his career in alcoholism because we moved the dumpster.

Jack has sired beautiful Clydesdale mules with white feathers on all four feet. Jack's Walkers (from Tennessee walking mares) are some of the most sure-footed mules you could hope to ride.

When we drink into intoxication we must remember the story of Lot and his daughters and their incest and the tragic results of this intoxication. Genesis 19; 30-38

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I think everyone is different. I think there are a LOT of people who are very sensitive to sugar. I am. And I believe that all calories are NOT equal across the board. Some people don't seem to be affected, while some are greatly affected. Do I have scientific proof and/or am I a scientist? No. But I am hypoglycemic and get "addicted" to sugar if I just let myself go unchecked, then I get in a really bad place where I will blackout and have a lot of other health issues. No, a calorie is not just a calorie. Your body needs specific nutrients, which cannot be found in sugar. If you're getting all your nutrients and eating sugar, then you're going to gain weight. If you can live at a healthy weight on sugar, you're not getting all your nutrients and you're health will likely be affected after long-term sugar consumption/lack of needed nutrients. Just because you're not affected at age 30 doesn't mean by 55 you won't see some detrimental effects.

States she isn't a scientist and has no scientific proof... proceeds to give science-like argument!

All in good fun, but your post is wrong on so many levels. Your hypoglycemia and lack of self control around sweets is a health issue that is specific to you. It is by no means a scientific commentary on how the human body works. I eat sugar on a daily basis. I am very macro and micro nutrient efficient. I have not gained weight.

Man people get so defensive over their sugar. The main argument most of those videos the original poster listed are not saying that calories don't matter. Sugar consumption has shown to be a considerable factor in managing ones daily calories. I eat something sweet every day too that isn't the problem. People gaining weight on a SAD diet are eating sweets, pizzas, pastas, cookies, etc. Eating all that for a long time is damaging peoples metabolism. For over 30 years health experts have been blaming fat for everything while ignoring sugar and carbs.

Ignoring? Low carb/low sugar has been all the rage for years now. The same red herring that fat was in the past.

Man people get so defensive over their sugar. The main argument most of those videos the original poster listed are not saying that calories don't matter. Sugar consumption has shown to be a considerable factor in managing ones daily calories. I eat something sweet every day too that isn't the problem. People gaining weight on a SAD diet are eating sweets, pizzas, pastas, cookies, etc. Eating all that for a long time is damaging peoples metabolism. For over 30 years health experts have been blaming fat for everything while ignoring sugar and carbs.

Guys I'm not saying the proof is with me - it's in the links I left. Checkout Professor Lutwig's videos - he will explain the biochemistry of how fructose is directed to the liver to be metabolized and this results in fat storage whereas glucose can be metabolized by any cells / organs in the body.

Watch Sugar: The bitter truth on You Tube please before commenting.

Sugar (and simple carbs like bread) is driving insulin is driving fat storage is the message. We are not fat because we are eating more, we are eating more because we are getting fat. The paradigm needs to be flipped.

Google Gary Taubes - an award winning science journalist who's followed the complete history of the fat versus sugar studies going back over 100 years.

Checkout Pure, White and Deadly by Professor John Yudkin

Regards and best wishes to all

LOLstig and Taubes lmao

Uh oh, protein is also insulinogenic, so maybe that's driving insulin and is driving fat storage!

Yes some people do gain weight eating too high a ratio of protein. It is usually after they already have a very insulin resistant, damaged metabolism. For most though no that isn't their issue it is eating a diet high in processed carb rich low fiber junk that spikes your blood sugar and keeps your pancreas pumping out insulin.

I think everyone is different. I think there are a LOT of people who are very sensitive to sugar. I am. And I believe that all calories are NOT equal across the board. Some people don't seem to be affected, while some are greatly affected. Do I have scientific proof and/or am I a scientist? No. But I am hypoglycemic and get "addicted" to sugar if I just let myself go unchecked, then I get in a really bad place where I will blackout and have a lot of other health issues. No, a calorie is not just a calorie. Your body needs specific nutrients, which cannot be found in sugar. If you're getting all your nutrients and eating sugar, then you're going to gain weight. If you can live at a healthy weight on sugar, you're not getting all your nutrients and you're health will likely be affected after long-term sugar consumption/lack of needed nutrients. Just because you're not affected at age 30 doesn't mean by 55 you won't see some detrimental effects.

States she isn't a scientist and has no scientific proof... proceeds to give science-like argument!

All in good fun, but your post is wrong on so many levels. Your hypoglycemia and lack of self control around sweets is a health issue that is specific to you. It is by no means a scientific commentary on how the human body works. I eat sugar on a daily basis. I am very macro and micro nutrient efficient. I have not gained weight.

I also have hypoglycemia. It's not that I have a lack of controll around sugar, but when my sugar gets low, I do crave the stuff. Like "I would kill you for that chocolate bar you just chewed up" craving. That being said, I have learned to somewhat controll my hypoblycemia by eating a banana or a greek yogurt with some pb2 when I feel this attack coming on. Just saying, that being hypoglycemic DOES make your mind think you body NEEDS sugar. If my sugar level drops, I get really *itchy, see spots, get dizzy, pass out. Usually in that order. You know it's bad when your daughter tells you, "mom, eat something like now!" Luckily I have found a lifestyle change that is working for me, not everyone is that lucky. And I really said all of that just to say I would love touchin your muscles

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