What people say. Recommended as a detailed discussion on the health impacts of sugar, though some users dispute its claims on fructose and calories.
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On “Reasons to grow and keep big muscles”
Sugar is poison. Check out the latest talk from Dr Robert Lustig link to this video Its a 3.5h video, but roughly sugar is as toxic as alcohol and the food industry is adding it to most products. In short if it has a label (like most processed foods with many ingredients) you should avoid, switch to the ones that don't have (like an apple). This book is also great "The hacking of the American mind" `While researching the toxic and addictive properties of sugar for his New York Times bestseller Fat Chance, Robert Lustig made an alarming discovery—our pursuit of happiness is being subverted by a culture of addiction and depression from which we may never recover. Dopamine is the “reward” neurotransmitter…
On “Pizza, pasta, potatoes, protein – how Italian children became so overweight”
This explains how sugars and fast carbs can be healthy link to this video Tldr; highly processed food looses vitamins(micro nutrient starvation) and starch/fiber are needed to slow absorption until it gets to bacteria producing drugs(barbiturate and precursors to neuromediators including), and give signals over vagus nerve to head. May be summary of few books from me too. Do not recall. Add on top chewing fibery food takes time, feeling full starts earlier of being full, and saliva ferments help to digest either.
On “Type 2 Diabetes and cardiovascular disease attributable to sugar beverages”
link to this video 22:31 - "fructose is addictive" No. linklink 25:14 - "the fiber is what mitigates the absorption ... that fructose wasn't for you" Not how that works. You absorb the same fructose whether or not it's co-located with fiber. 33:40 - "this whole calories in / calories out makes no sense ... there's no study that actually shows that cutting calories makes a difference" Completely wrong and against the literature. link 1:00:17 - "fructose causes leaky gut; that causes inflammation of the liver and ultimately systemic inflammation" No. link 1:31:10 - Asked to explain trend towards obesity over the past 20 years if not the transition away from trans fats. "It's the increase in suga…
