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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: 2) by opinionated_science on Wednesday August 27 2014, @03:32PM
think lobster in boiling pot. Do it gradually you will not notice it. Things that are too sweet, take in smaller quantities.
Try diluting fruit juice. Think how many oranges you would need to get that glass of juice. Think you could eat the oranges?
It is important to get the correct nutrition, so protein for body repair is important, but not too much or you promote unwanted cell growth. If you want power you need carbs. That is plain and simple biochemistry, just don't have more than you need!!
However, without carbs you can burn fat just fine, but at a lower metabolic rate. It is energy dense, but yields less per molecule.
There's been a lot of FUD in the last 50 years from bad science and the weight of the food industry that simply cannot say "enough is enough".
A steak every now an again, is good. Every day, not so much.
There is a lot to be said for "traditional" diets, the problem is the traditions were different too (e.g on the farm 12 hours day!!!)
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday August 27 2014, @03:43PM
"the problem is the traditions were different to"
Also a mere 10Kyrs of farming doesn't erase 100Kyrs of evolved biochemistry not to eat farm products.
Go back far enough (and its not far...) we ALL had the hunter / gatherer tradition. They're pretty lazy compared to farmers, which makes a HG diet a good match to modern cubical dwellers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 27 2014, @04:11PM
Why? I can drink three glasses of diluted 1/3 fruit juice 2/3 water, or I can drink 1 glass of fruit juice and 2 glasses of water, and the total intake will be exactly the same. Just with the diluted fruit juice, the enjoyment would be reduced.
That's assuming I'd drink one glass of fruit juice for every two glasses of water, to begin with. Actually, if I take the total amount of fruit juice I drink, and the total amount of water I drink, and imagine I'd mix them together in that proportion, I think I wouldn't taste the fruit juice anyway.