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from the sweets-for-my-sweet,-sugar-for-my-honey-The-Drifters-1961 dept.
Lustig, the maverick scientist, has long argued that sugar is as harmful as cocaine or tobacco – and that the food industry has been adding too much of it to our meals for too long.
If you have any interest at all in diet, obesity, public health, diabetes, epidemiology, your own health or that of other people, you will probably be aware that sugar, not fat, is now considered the devil's food. Dr Robert Lustig's book, Fat Chance: The Hidden Truth About Sugar, Obesity and Disease ( http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jan/25/fat-chance-robert-lustig-review ), for all that it sounds like a Dan Brown novel, is the difference between vaguely knowing something is probably true, and being told it as a fact. Lustig has spent the past 16 years treating childhood obesity. His meta-analysis of the cutting-edge research on large-cohort studies of what sugar does to populations across the world, alongside his own clinical observations, has him credited with starting the war on sugar. When it reaches the enemy status of tobacco, it will be because of Lustig.
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/aug/24/robert-lustig-sugar-poison
I think moderation is the key. What do you think ?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 27 2014, @02:32PM
Man, I wish I could get food with real sugar here. Not that I eat terribly, but it has to be better (and taste better) than the high-fructose corn syrup that's in everything.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday August 27 2014, @03:11PM
"than the high-fructose corn syrup that's in everything."
In my considerable experience with this topic you pretty much have to abandon processed food. The good news is real food tastes better than processed food.
So I took some beef stew meat and blackened the outside on a red hot stainless steel fry pan and dumped it into a slow cooker with some taco spices (technically more of a barbacoa sauce given the chipoltle I added but whatever) and let that dude slow cook for about 8 hours and wrapped about half a pound of it in a burrito shell with some onions and a little lettuce salad on the side. And it was heavenly.
I had some brats the day before. I should have browned the stew meat on the grill once the brats were done. Oh well.
Tomorrow is shaping up to be grilled kabobs with steak meat, peppers, onions, mushrooms, and pineapples.
Yesterday for a snack I had a small handful of walnuts. Looking at a small handful of almonds today. They taste pretty good, I think.
Breakfasts tend to be yummy leftovers or every better fried meat.
Lunches are salads
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 27 2014, @03:19PM
Oh, you're definitely spot-on. Nothing beats real food made from fresh meat and vegetables. But sometimes I want a coke with lunch or something sweet for a snack, and fruit doesn't always scratch that itch.
(Score: 1) by Muad'Dave on Thursday August 28 2014, @01:19PM
burrito shell - did you make it? No? Sugar
brats - did you make them? No? Sugar
The rest of your diet looks impressive, but there's hidden sugar everywhere.
(Score: 2) by Aighearach on Thursday August 28 2014, @02:52AM
As a label-reader I have found that in local supermarkets (Oregon, USA) there is usually 1 or 2 regular-priced options for each food without HFCS, or other syrups, with only real sugar added.
For example ketchup, I can buy a Hunt's squeeze bottle with real sugar, and an "all natural" label, but even the other Hunt's all have HFCS. It is one of the cheapest, too, and tastes "normal."
Dry cereal there are 3 or 4, but there is also usually affordable store-brand shredded wheat that is only whole wheat and vitamin E (as a preservative.)
I've totally cut HFCS out of my diet, and I don't buy "premium" yuppy-food, and I haven't cut out any food categories. Just reading labels every time, and including a step of "choose what I want to eat" is all it takes. Most people don't really choose, they just grab whatever is similar to past things they bought, and just assume they are OK because they ate them before. Once you commit to choosing each time, then you're obligated to read the labels.