I like sugar

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  • Posts: 276 Member
    I eat something sugary every day. I feel like the body needs a little bit or else you'll get low blood sugar and wonk out. :flowerforyou:

    Me too :) I have to end each meal with something sweet; or eat at least one thing sweet daily.
    If not, I'll go Hulk Smash and maybe finish a full pint of ice cream on the last day of the week :)
  • Posts: 23 Member
    Sugar is the reason I exercise, and it creates a 1:1 ratio. The more exercise I manage, the more sugar I can eat!
  • Posts: 10,376 Member

    In order to lose 93lb (big congrats by the way!) you would have no doubt restricted your calories. The easiest way to restrict calories is to reduce the amount of calorie dense food you ate, such as sugar and fats. I'm not surprised your blood work has improved. However there is no link between blood cholesterol and heart disease. The link is actually whether you are a Pattern B LDL type person.
    True, but weight loss and exercise does influence cholesterol and can reduce pattern B's in the blood. Not to the extend of course if one was to reduce the foods that also contribute.
  • Posts: 1,412 Member
    The only thing I'd be worried about is my blood sugar levels and diabetes if I were you
  • Posts: 1,568 Member
    some people can eat sugar and not have an adverse effect, some people can't. What gets my goat is when people think that because something works for them it must work for other people - complete BS.
  • Posts: 27,732 Member
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  • Posts: 2,848 Member

    Ok, so IYO, sugar caused a tumor?

    WTF?

    I didn't say I was immune to disease or dying someday. I said I'm currently healthy. If I get a tumor, or cancer, or lukemia, or have a stroke, I'll deal with it. Jesus Christ. WTF does any of that have to do with eating sweets?

    LOL At least you'll know where to catch the next bus to "Sugar is Evil-town" if something does happen. Sugar threads never end well. :flowerforyou:
  • Posts: 109 Member
    True, but weight loss and exercise does influence cholesterol and can reduce pattern B's in the blood. Not to the extend of course if one was to reduce the foods that also contribute.

    Totally agree, I don't see the point however in exercising just to enable sugar eating. Exercise is great in strengthening muscles and bones, great for lifting your mood, improving blood circulation and reducing visceral fat. It's a bit daft to exercise simply to justify a sweet tooth, though. This thread is mostly a huge denial and justification exercise, nobody has actually said that sugar is good for them because we all know the truth!
  • Posts: 2,276 Member
    Avoiding sugar is not just a weight loss aim, that's only a small part of it.

    Eating sugar (sucrose/fructose) increases visceral fat, increases blood triglycerides, makes insulin less efficient increasing the risk of diabetes and heart disease. It also changes our cholesterol transportation system (LDL) from safe pattern A to risky pattern B, again putting you at risk from heart disease. High sugar intake is also linked to pancreatic cancer, kidney disease and high blood pressure.

    The only sugar (fructose) you should eat is in whole fruit and vegetables.


    You can't tell me what to do!

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  • Posts: 61,406 Member

    Totally agree, I don't see the point however in exercising just to enable sugar eating. Exercise is great in strengthening muscles and bones, great for lifting your mood, improving blood circulation and reducing visceral fat. It's a bit daft to exercise simply to justify a sweet tooth, though. This thread is mostly a huge denial and justification exercise, nobody has actually said that sugar is good for them because we all know the truth!

    There is absolutely a ton of denial and justification going on in this thread.

    But I don't think you're aware of where it's coming from
  • Posts: 475 Member
    :yawn: So.Incredibly.Tiresome. The sugar evangelists and the deniers both.
  • Posts: 2,276 Member
    :yawn: So.Incredibly.Tiresome. The sugar evangelists and the deniers both.


    Thank you for taking the time to share your opinion. :flowerforyou:
  • Posts: 475 Member
    :flowerforyou: You are welcome! :flowerforyou:
  • Posts: 1,633 Member
    What's going on in here? Am I missing the sugar party? Here, I brought an offering.


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    For every time someone mentions the word "addiction" or "evil" I'll add a sprinkle.
  • Posts: 417 Member

    In order to lose 93lb (big congrats by the way!) you would have no doubt restricted your calories. The easiest way to restrict calories is to reduce the amount of calorie dense food you ate, such as sugar and fats. I'm not surprised your blood work has improved. However there is no link between blood cholesterol and heart disease. The link is actually whether you are a Pattern B LDL type person.

    Are you a medical professional? You sure are throwing alot of jargon out there I don't even understand. However, I agree with some of the points you are trying to make. But I try to use real cane sugar in anything I eat. I don't like sugar substitutes as they are far worse off than the natural stuff itself. I don't count sugar grahams in anything I eat. I just eat!

    All this talk makes me want to eat sponge candy.
  • Posts: 417 Member
    Did I just grahams instead of grams? Sugar brain!
  • Posts: 416 Member

    Are you a medical professional? You sure are throwing alot of jargon out there I don't even understand. However, I agree with some of the points you are trying to make. But I try to use real cane sugar in anything I eat. I don't like sugar substitutes as they are far worse off than the natural stuff itself. I don't count sugar grahams in anything I eat. I just eat!

    All this talk makes me want to eat sponge candy.

    Sugar substitutes are FAR worse??? ????????????????????????????????
  • Posts: 109 Member
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    Enjoy :)
  • Posts: 17,857 Member

    Does such a person exist? How much added sugar do they eat and do their blood work panels include a test called polyacrylamide gradient gel electrophoresis?
    I exist.

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    Enjoy your crappy boring "no added sugar" diet. I'll continue to enjoy my sugars and the fun they fuel in good health.
  • Posts: 2,848 Member
    I exist.

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    Enjoy your crappy boring "no added sugar" diet. I'll continue to enjoy my sugars and the fun they fuel in good health.
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    I could watch that all day!
  • Posts: 101 Member
    i think the taste for sugar is something that is easily lost, and once you loose the taste for it there is no desire to ever have it again. just a thought...
  • Posts: 17,857 Member
    In the same way you wouldn't tell an alcoholic to moderate alcohol intake - it doesn't work!
    Alcohol reduces the functioning of the part of the brain which normally makes decisions in adults, and causes the person to be more impulsive.

    Sugar does not.

    They aren't even in the same ballpark.
  • Posts: 7,963 Member
    I see the battle against the forces of Derp is being well handled.

    proceed.
  • Posts: 81 Member
    i have no issue with anyone who wants to eat sugar, its your body you fire away. BUT and its a big BUT . just maybe its this thats making you ill , overweight and possibly miserable having to exercise all this self control you need to stay healthy?
    Just maybe?
    established views have regularly been overturned in recent years on many many aspects of what was once safe.
    Aspestos was in the food chain up until very recently, if you chew tobbaco in America it still is. Nicotine. wow everyone smoked in the 50's. if you go back as far as the turn of the last century, then you have laudinum, cocaine and even herion in regular use and also within regular use within the food chain.(cocaine in Coke anyone?)
    So maybe just maybe Fructose should be included in this?
    please all keep on doing what makes you happy and if sugar is part of this then thats fine its your buisness.
    But let me tell you my story.
    i've been Fructose free for a week (well less then 2grams of the stuff a day, well within the limit the liver can cope with)
    i've lost 6 lb in weight in that week, without exercise (not a jot) i constantly ate over the Calorie limit i'd set myself, and even added full fat milk and butter back into my diet i even had a glass of wine. and yet i lost 6lb in weight all of it from around my stomach . two inchs to those still using the outdated imperial measurements!
    but thats not all. my appetite control has come back. i'm staying here for another week, but see the light at the end of the tunnel. i'll no longer need to log everything i eat soon.likely to start this week.
    i started exercise again today and found i had more than enough energy to finish the workout, whereas before i struggled at halfway point. i'm a fit man my best marathon time is 2 hours 55 mins.
    i no longer run due to complications with an old knee injury , which resulted with gout/ arthritic type pain, almost constantly. this has vanished! COMPLETLY!!!!i might try a run next week.
    my skin has cleared up, no more excema it would seem is another pleasant side effect as well as my gums have stopped bleeding and look hugely more healthy than they did at the start of the week, it was after all my dentist who put me unto this!
    My stomach is not bloated, my mood improved, my taste and sense of smell has improved dramtically.
    all of this after a week with out Fructose , not sugar , Fructose! i've eaten nuts, apples, bananas and a lot of high sugar content food but the point is its "WHOLE" food. how much sugar did i eat before then your asking. well not a lot (i thought).
    which leads to the whole POINT . its hidden fructose that is the problem with most people! you quiet possibly have no idea just how much sugar , or rarther refined Fructose your consuming.
    Check it and see. in the meantime. if you want to poison yourself, you go ahead, :happy: :flowerforyou: :drinker:
  • Posts: 5,413 Member
    Thank you Jerry! I would also add that honey and agave nectar are delicious sugars as well. :drinker:
  • Posts: 5,413 Member
    i have no issue with anyone who wants to eat sugar, its your body you fire away. BUT and its a big BUT . just maybe its this thats making you ill , overweight and possibly miserable having to exercise all this self control you need to stay healthy?
    Just maybe?
    established views have regularly been overturned in recent years on many many aspects of what was once safe.
    Aspestos was in the food chain up until very recently, if you chew tobbaco in America it still is. Nicotine. wow everyone smoked in the 50's. if you go back as far as the turn of the last century, then you have laudinum, cocaine and even herion in regular use and also within regular use within the food chain.(cocaine in Coke anyone?)
    So maybe just maybe Fructose should be included in this?
    please all keep on doing what makes you happy and if sugar is part of this then thats fine its your buisness.
    But let me tell you my story.
    i've been Fructose free for a week (well less then 2grams of the stuff a day, well within the limit the liver can cope with)
    i've lost 6 lb in weight in that week, without exercise (not a jot) i constantly ate over the Calorie limit i'd set myself, and even added full fat milk and butter back into my diet i even had a glass of wine. and yet i lost 6lb in weight all of it from around my stomach . two inchs to those still using the outdated imperial measurements!
    but thats not all. my appetite control has come back. i'm staying here for another week, but see the light at the end of the tunnel. i'll no longer need to log everything i eat soon.likely to start this week.
    i started exercise again today and found i had more than enough energy to finish the workout, whereas before i struggled at halfway point. i'm a fit man my best marathon time is 2 hours 55 mins.
    i no longer run due to complications with an old knee injury , which resulted with gout/ arthritic type pain, almost constantly. this has vanished! COMPLETLY!!!!i might try a run next week.
    my skin has cleared up, no more excema it would seem is another pleasant side effect as well as my gums have stopped bleeding and look hugely more healthy than they did at the start of the week, it was after all my dentist who put me unto this!
    My stomach is not bloated, my mood improved, my taste and sense of smell has improved dramtically.
    all of this after a week with out Fructose , not sugar , Fructose! i've eaten nuts, apples, bananas and a lot of high sugar content food but the point is its "WHOLE" food. how much sugar did i eat before then your asking. well not a lot (i thought).
    which leads to the whole POINT . its hidden fructose that is the problem with most people! you quiet possibly have no idea just how much sugar , or rarther refined Fructose your consuming.
    Check it and see. in the meantime. if you want to poison yourself, you go ahead, :happy: :flowerforyou: :drinker:

    Sugar is not a toxin. So you cannot poison yourself with it.

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  • Posts: 2,925 Member
    These anti-sugar crusaders sound like the low-fat 80's crowd followers.

    http://www.simplyshredded.com/the-science-of-nutrition-is-a-carb-a-carb.html
  • Posts: 16,913 Member
    i have no issue with anyone who wants to eat sugar, its your body you fire away. BUT and its a big BUT . just maybe its this thats making you ill , overweight and possibly miserable having to exercise all this self control you need to stay healthy?
    Just maybe?
    established views have regularly been overturned in recent years on many many aspects of what was once safe.
    Aspestos was in the food chain up until very recently, if you chew tobbaco in America it still is. Nicotine. wow everyone smoked in the 50's. if you go back as far as the turn of the last century, then you have laudinum, cocaine and even herion in regular use and also within regular use within the food chain.(cocaine in Coke anyone?)
    So maybe just maybe Fructose should be included in this?
    please all keep on doing what makes you happy and if sugar is part of this then thats fine its your buisness.
    But let me tell you my story.
    i've been Fructose free for a week (well less then 2grams of the stuff a day, well within the limit the liver can cope with)
    i've lost 6 lb in weight in that week, without exercise (not a jot) i constantly ate over the Calorie limit i'd set myself, and even added full fat milk and butter back into my diet i even had a glass of wine. and yet i lost 6lb in weight all of it from around my stomach . two inchs to those still using the outdated imperial measurements!
    but thats not all. my appetite control has come back. i'm staying here for another week, but see the light at the end of the tunnel. i'll no longer need to log everything i eat soon.likely to start this week.
    i started exercise again today and found i had more than enough energy to finish the workout, whereas before i struggled at halfway point. i'm a fit man my best marathon time is 2 hours 55 mins.
    i no longer run due to complications with an old knee injury , which resulted with gout/ arthritic type pain, almost constantly. this has vanished! COMPLETLY!!!!i might try a run next week.
    my skin has cleared up, no more excema it would seem is another pleasant side effect as well as my gums have stopped bleeding and look hugely more healthy than they did at the start of the week, it was after all my dentist who put me unto this!
    My stomach is not bloated, my mood improved, my taste and sense of smell has improved dramtically.
    all of this after a week with out Fructose , not sugar , Fructose! i've eaten nuts, apples, bananas and a lot of high sugar content food but the point is its "WHOLE" food. how much sugar did i eat before then your asking. well not a lot (i thought).
    which leads to the whole POINT . its hidden fructose that is the problem with most people! you quiet possibly have no idea just how much sugar , or rarther refined Fructose your consuming.
    Check it and see. in the meantime. if you want to poison yourself, you go ahead, :happy: :flowerforyou: :drinker:

    Checks food diary

    Brings up sugar tab

    I'm pretty aware of how much sugar I'm taking in, actually. Answer: a good bit.
  • Posts: 81 Member
    These anti-sugar crusaders sound like the low-fat 80's crowd followers.

    http://www.simplyshredded.com/the-science-of-nutrition-is-a-carb-a-carb.html
    do i really?
    i'm sure i just typed about the amount of Fats i've just reintroduced.

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