Sugar the new FAT

[RAINRA]

Still wondering why you get colds, why your can't loose that extra fat around your belly, why vegans still get heart disease... well the key is to stop consuming fructose speciallly if it is not in fruit. Highly active people consuming small amounts of it will end up needing it to restore glycogen stores. Most people are not high performance athletes and they are harming their health with sugar. Fructose is your enemy when it comes to health. If your vegan and you think your heart attack proof... think again...

 

enjoy the lecture.

[Fallen_Horse]

Too much of anything is a bad thing. Trouble is, what if people replace those sugar calories with fatty meats and cheeses? Their health isn't any better for it.

 

Eat food. Mostly plants. Not too much.

[RAINRA]

yeah well too much of anything is not good. I still see to many Vegans buy cupcakes and vegan treats.

 

I am not one to point fingers because I went on a trip and ate a like 8 health bars in two days loaded with sugar and came down with a cold. I did this thinking I could get by since I was traveling to a place that I could not prep food at all and had to hold off my appetite until I got to a meal. So now after researching more about the health effects of sugar I see how destructive that was. But my consumption dwarfs what I have seen fellow vegans eat. BUT I have learned my lesson.

 

Basically

Sugar=stored fat

 

I do want to say moderation is never a great term because I see people use it for all things. No one is moderating anything people eat what they feel like eating. Sugar is in almost everything and I am not talking about in whole foods I am talking about added sugar (table sugar, agave, cane syrup, high fructose corn syrup, maple syrup and for those non vegans honey) These are all causing problems beyond eating bad fats and oils. Eating whole foods is the key the more you eat the better you will be in health. I am taking the no more added sugar challenge. No juices unless it is fresh squeezed. I will let people know how I feel.

[Marcina]

I treat myself to some vegan ice cream last night.

 

I felt pretty blarg after it! Lol!

 

I'm not a big sugar fan. My comfort food is a big green salad.

[xjohanx]

I watched like half of it. Dude is really popular amongst swedish low-carbers but he makes a lot of faulty conclusions about what's making us fat etc. To say that fructose is a poison is really fucked up and obviously he makes an overstatement to get attention which I really hate when scientists does (the media does it enough for them). This is nothing new under the sun, refined foods are bad and fructose is a bit worse than glucose, at least when you're on a calorie surplus.

[RAINRA]

thanks johan... I felt your response was constructive! He does mention at the end that fructose in fruit is fine for you because of the fiber that comes with the fruit which slows the process of absorption. Let everyone make their own choice but mine is that added sugar is a huge problem with Obesity.

[xjohanx]

Bumping this.

 

Alan Argon wrote a great blogpost about the lecture http://www.alanaragonblog.com/2010/01/29/the-bitter-truth-about-fructose-alarmism/