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.

Comments

Note if we can stop..

[Anonymous Coward]

Putting sugars in everything! You can't even buy prepackaged meats without sugar added!

Re:Note if we can stop..

[Kohath]

Try buying actual "food" at the grocery store rather than prepackaged boxes of chemicals.

Will it make me talk like a complete douchebag? Is that what happened to you?

Re:Note if we can stop..

[turp182]

Stick with Boar's Head deli meats. They are more expensive, but it's quality meat.

Cheap meat is very chemical laden (sugar isn't the half of it).

Re:Note if we can stop..

[JoeMerchant]

That produce department runs at a loss - it's just there to make people feel good that they're buying some "real" food too. Most of what is there is genetically modified to be as big and heavy as possible while still resembling the namesake commodity, with no regard to nutritional content and little regard to taste. Almost all of what is there is produced on the world Ag market and container shipped to you, picked at the peak of shelf life and delivered just in time to not spoil before you get it to the car.

Try growing your own, if you can still get your hands on decent seed stock, or pay double+ for "real" organics, if you stores in your state even carry them. The difference is remarkable - and if you do try growing your own, you'll appreciate how cheap the "real" organics actually are.

Meanwhile, the wage-slaves of the world who have enough time to skip the fast food restaurants barely have time to shop for pre-processed packaged foods at the grocery store - are you actually expecting them to take time out to prepare food instead of preparing their children for the NCLB standardized tests or watching 4 hours of passive entertainment a night?

Causes cancer

[Citizen of Earth]

What does it do for me if I'm not an obese child? Or, should we file this in the "causes cancer" circular filing cabinet?

Re:Causes cancer

[jedidiah]

Since flour and sugar pretty much coincide with civilization in general and the ability to record anything, the idea that "disease suddenly appears" is a pretty obvious thing. Whether or not it's anything to get hysterical about is another matter.

It still beats the alternative.

Re:and so therefore?

[jedidiah]

...or they could just stop subsidizing sugar production.

Re:Let me get this straight:

[jedidiah]

What you are describing is not "moderation", especially the part that includes "not to eat".

Re:Let me get this straight:

[moeinvt]

"Fat is OK... just not animal fat... vegetable fat is fine."

Completely backwards. Homo Sapiens evolved on a diet containing animal fat. The vegetable oils and especially the hydrogenated vegetable oils are heavily processed and totally unnatural. Factors such as shelf life, not human health drove the development of these substances. The fats that you actually find in nature such as animal fats and unsaturated fats from various seeds and nuts are much healthier than the processed stuff.

Re:New study shows...

[Anonymous Coward]

Wrong, eating the wrong foods make people fat.

You could eat 2000 calories of sugar a day and get fat, but eat 10,000 calories of whole fruits (even sugary fruits as long as it's whole fruit the wait nature intended it to be eaten) and veggies and all you'll do is shit a lot. Other than that, you'll be healthy and not fat. Our diet is completely fucked up, world wide.

Every single person trying to count calories is wrong. Just change what you eat. The amount doesn't matter that much as long as you are eating whole fruits and veggies. Watch the dairy, meat, grains, nuts, etc and other than that you're golden.

Re:Let me get this straight:

[Thelasko]

As usual, the concept of moderation goes *woosh* over people's heads as they furiously go about constructing their strawmen.

Except these stories never seem to focus on moderation. They focus on "cutting". You can't cut everything, you will starve. However, it seems our society has rejected moderation as something viable.

My personal opinion is, eating will kill you. Not eating will kill you faster. We're all going to die at some point. Eat just enough of whatever you want so you don't starve. Don't eat more than that.

Small Details Matter - Consider the study group.

[pubwvj]

"reducing sugar intake in obese children"

Small Details Matter - Consider the study group. They started out with abnormal people, the obese. Sugars are a normal part of our diet. The problem is not sugars but overconsumption.

Re:Let me get this straight:

[serviscope_minor]

The vegetable oils and especially the hydrogenated vegetable oils are heavily processed and totally unnatural.

No that's silly. Plain vegtable oil is entirely natural and unprocessed and exists to a greater ot lesser extent in a lot of vegetables, especially seeds. Lumping plain vegetable oil and hydrogenated vegetable oil together as "unnatural" is completely nonsensical.

You missed the point

[s.petry]

The point is that for at least 3 generations we were taught that Starches and sugars were not just healthy, but necessary in larger quantities. Average people didn't just make this shit up, it was taught in schools at the insistence of Governments (which we could argue is at the behest of large corporations, but that is a different discussion).

You should try less to look like a self righteous prick and much harder to comprehend a few sentences of text.