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Study: Cutting Sugar From Diet Shows Immediate Health Benefits (wiley.com)
turp182 writes: As reported in TIME and other news sources, a recent study found that reducing sugar intake in obese children caused several biological health markers to improve over a short period of time (9 days). Summarizing the results: "Overall, their fasting blood sugar levels dropped by 53%, along with the amount of insulin their bodies produced since insulin is normally needed to break down carbohydrates and sugars. Their triglyceride and LDL levels also declined and, most importantly, they showed less fat in their liver."
The full study is available online.
The Warburg Effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Cancer loves sugar. Cancer cells consume sugar at 8 times the rate of normal cells. Warburg won the Nobel prize for this discovery.
Yes both sugar and flour are bad for you. There is thing called "Diseases of Western Civilization" and they come along when sugar and flour start showing up in your diet.
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Pizza is a vegetable was a Republican spending bill:
"On November 14th, 2011, the Associated Press[15] reported that U.S. House Republicans put forth a spending bill that would bar the USDA from changing its nutritional guidelines for school lunches, which would’ve required more green vegetables and set a higher qualification for tomato paste to be counted as vegetables from 2 tablespoons to a a half-cup. The article also revealed that part of the spending bill would protect the status of tomato paste on pizza as a vegetable at the request of food companies supplying the nation’s school cafeterias."
source: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/pizza-is-a-vegetable
Can confirm. Have dropped 90 percent of sugar & carbohydrates (Grains, Rice, Potatoes) from my diet, as a result of having been diagnosed with Type II Diabetes. Too late to recover Pancreas, however attendant diseases (Eye damage, kidney damage, Gout & arthritis are no longer giving me grief. I am down to one cold or less per Canadian winter, and my weight drops about a kg (2.2 lb) per month. Almost down to normal BMI.
Yes, it is also a genetic predisposition, but if I had known what not to eat 40 years ago, I might still have a pancreas.
Time to revise the food guide. Grain & Cane are not food for people.
We're now not supposed to eat meat of any kind
If you want to misrepresent what was said, that's your prerogative. The WHO didn't recommend not eating meat, only not to eat processed/smoked meats, and to limit red meat. As usual, the concept of moderation goes *woosh* over people's heads as they furiously go about constructing their strawmen ..
"Old man yells at systemd"
I'm not a nutritionist, but from what I've read and watched, very little food at the grocery store does not contain sugar (or corn syrup). Kraft Recipes lists sugar or corn syrup as one of the top ingredients for most of their Oscar Mayer brand prepackaged cold cuts - http://www.kraftrecipes.com/pr...
Depends... If you're in Europe, you're right. If you're in the US, the parent poster is right.
Try buying actual "food" at the grocery store rather than prepackaged boxes of chemicals.
Vegetables have shockingly low amounts of sugar. Similarly with flour, eggs, rice, beans, meat, etc.
Vegetables have shockingly low amounts of sugar. Similarly with flour, eggs, rice, beans, meat, etc.
Flour, rice and other carbs may have low amounts of sugar, but our bodies turn them into sugar pretty quickly.
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
Wow, you are so wrong. The human body (and our microbial friends in our stomachs) are extremely good at digesting food. For any reasonable amount of food, KJ in = KJ stored + KJ expended.
It doesn't matter if it's fruit or Coke, you keep those calories. Plus, there is more energy in a banana than in the same weight of Coke.
No you are wrong as well.
KJ food input = KJ stored + KJ expended (effort) + KJ expelled (urine + feces)
Gut microbe has a big impact on what consumed calories are absorbed by the body.
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Hmm... Do you have a citation for that produce department running at a loss? I modeled pedestrian traffic and that included needing to prioritize traffic to optimal areas based on projected profit margins. (Yes, foot traffic is optimized and no, you're not immune.) As near as I know, the bakery operates at close to a loss but not quite a loss - they're able to write down donations and destroyed goods (as they can in the produce section). There are loss leaders - usually on something called an 'end cap' but those are not always loss leaders - they're actually sometimes more expensive.
Anyhow, I can go on but I'll be interested in your citation. The data may have changed in eight years but it seems unlikely. With write-downs the produce section was, as I recall, one of the higher profit areas where fresh dairy was one of the lowest profit areas but one of the greatest traffic draws (which is why it's in the back and on the left, usually).
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
You got two years younger while writing the post. Impressive.
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