Holy sugar consumption Batman!!

The media often jumps on the latest fad and doesn't consider opposite sides of the story. They're there to make money, not give out equal and balanced truth. Sugar is not the devil.

I don't usually go over my sugar amounts when I look at the weekly breakdown….what I do go over is salt. Every damn day.
I find that avoiding things in jars or bottles keeps my sugar down. Meaning, I don't buy sauces, I very seldomly buy bottled drinks, I prepare a lot of my meals. I try to limit bread to only at one meal per day. That's kind of advice, right? :drinker:

more whole foods, less processed foods...that said, I agree with the following...

The media often jumps on the latest fad and doesn't consider opposite sides of the story. They're there to make money, not give out equal and balanced truth. Sugar is not the devil.

yeah, there was some recent study that came out and the media was all over it...if you look at it, the study is looking at these test subjects consuming 25% plus of their calories in added sugar. Study determines that this is bad (which it is) and sugar is the devil...never mind it's the fact that at consuming 25% of calories from added sugar that your diet is going to be for total **** and there's no way you're going to get anything remotely resembling proper nutrition...but yeah...it's the sugar exclusively and not the really crappy overall diet....

I eat around 100 grams of sugar daily...most of that comes from vegetables and fruit...at least 60-70%. Problem with **** like this is that then we're going to have all kinds of whack jobs demonizing fruits and certain vegetables...ooooohhhh...beets are the devil because sugar....

Sugar isn't bad for you unless your doctor has advised that you stay away from it... It's a carb... Focus on carbs as a whole instead of sugar. Stop looking at the number, and instead focus on something like..... Fiber.... instead.

I wish they had done that as reasonably as you describe it, simply cutting out each category from an otherwise acceptable diet. But alas, they actually each ate terrible diets extremely high in whichever category they werent cutting out. Which is not the same thing at all. ( by the way, referencing the Daily Mail is like referencing those papers sold at grocery store checkouts in the US, the ones with martians abducting JonBenet. If it were a valid study, you would be finding it on BBC news or on American websites too.).


Cutting out aded sugar is good. Eating wholegrain bread products, preferably homemade with minimal sugar is fine, but store bought, even standard grocery store bakery bread, too sweet.

I don't care much about my sugar intake. I don't eat a ton of sugary stuff. i enjoy a bowl (one serving) of ice cream every couple of nights. I don't consume enough to worry about it.

For years, I have believed it is the combination of fat and sugar together in processed foods that is the issue, not sugar or fat alone...afterall, how many of us sit and eat lard by the spoonful or can stomach more than a few teaspoons of sugar by themselves? Or demolish a bag of hard candy in one go? But stick a tub of ice cream, a big piece of cake, a doughnut in front of many people, and it will be gone with a craving for more of the same.

There was a programme shown on Uk BBC Tv not long ago about this, where two identical twins did an experiment with one cutting out carbs and the other cutting out most fat, to compare results. It was quite interesting, even if not totally scientific and their conclusion agreed with what I had concluded already. Worth a watch if you can access it.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2546975/One-twin-gave-sugar-gave-fat-Their-experiment-change-YOUR-life.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-3TiXw_nTk

Wow! This made a lot of sense to me. Probably the most useful information I have read in a long time. And I got a kick how one twin in red, and the other in blue. That is the colors we put our twins in so people can tell them apart! Thank you very much!!

You are welcome. I am glad you found it interesting and useful.

There is added sugar in a lot of processed foods. That having been said, unless you have a medical reason to avoid it, it shouldn't interfere with your weight loss. But if you'd like to cut down on added sugar in breads and such, just reading labels on the foods you buy will help a lot.

I don't think sugar is the devil or anything - but I do think an easy way to reduce your calories is to cut down on added sugar - try to wean down the amount you have in coffee for example and try to choose unsweetened versions of products where possible.
OJ with no added sugar vs sweetened OJ, for example.

Incidentally my daughter is in USA for 6 months - she did comment that the bread there is much sweeter tasting than in Australia.
I wonder if you have more added sugar to bread than we have here.

I know you can get many varied versions of bread - but talking about run of the mill, sandwich bread from supermarkets.

I just checked my loaf and is 3 g per 100g serving (everything in Australia is listed as per 100g)
Just curious.

You may not be eating as much bread as you think..

When i eat bread I always weight it.. the serving size per packing on my bread is listed as 10 (there's at least 30 slices in there) and the calories say 130 per slice (or 57g) so I weighted my two small slices and it was like 20g. If I had taken to of the full sized slices I still don't think i'd be at 57g.

And yep.. mine is a rye bread.

Carbs are made of sugar, fiber, and other things. The carbs from fiber don't raise your insulin so those are good ones. If you are going to have carbs, make them high fiber. The carbs made of sugar will create an insulin response. This in itself wont make you gain weight but it is not something you want at every meal. Instead of worrying about sugar from a piece of fruit or fresh veggies be more concerned about where the foods you eat fall on the glycemic index. People are calling the Glycemic Index "diet" a fad, but honestly, it has been saving the lives of diabetic people for many many years and I don't personally consider it a fad. More recently, the benfits have been seen in non-diabetics. If you are concerned about your sugar intake, it may be beneficial to you.

Here is what the American Heart Assosication says, http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/GettingHealthy/NutritionCenter/HealthyDietGoals/Glycemic-Index-and-Diabetes_UCM_457070_Article.jsp

Meh, GI is extremely overrated. GL on the other hand deals with the glycemic load put on the body, kinda of like the tree and forest analogy.

I don't think sugar is the devil or anything - but I do think an easy way to reduce your calories is to cut down on added sugar - try to wean down the amount you have in coffee for example and try to choose unsweetened versions of products where possible.
OJ with no added sugar vs sweetened OJ, for example.

Incidentally my daughter is in USA for 6 months - she did comment that the bread there is much sweeter tasting than in Australia.
I wonder if you have more added sugar to bread than we have here.

I know you can get many varied versions of bread - but talking about run of the mill, sandwich bread from supermarkets.

I just checked my loaf and is 3 g per 100g serving (everything in Australia is listed as per 100g)
Just curious.

My bread is 3g per 40g

Thanks for that - ok, so more than twice the sugar of my standard supermarket wholemeal bread at 3g sugar per 100 g product.

Are you in USA?

Very interesting.