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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.
Putting sugars in everything! You can't even buy prepackaged meats without sugar added!
My fiance has cut sugar out of her diet and found that her general mood is much happier and more consistent. After a day of eating sugar she would be really depressed and down, low energy and such, but now she has more physical and mental energy on a normal basis. That sugar crash really is killer!
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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For over a decade now, Dr. Eades clinic has done years of diet research with their patients and have been able to reduce and even eliminate in many cases Type II diabetes with mere diet change. (tl;dr; paleo-ish). They've done bloodwork on thousands of patients and have shown that in as little as two weeks and even sometimes less, switching to their recommended diet allowed nearly all blood markers to return to within normal, healthy ranges, including cholesterol.
Yudkin's book "Pure, White, and Deadly" was published in 1972 advising from the then already-currently-known-studies how dangerous sugar was in the human diet--and this was *before* sugar consumption in the West increased 5-10-fold, and before the advent of the even-worse HFCS experiment on the entire population began.
The body is a remarkably self-regulating and healing machine. It's amazing we can survive for as long as we do with continued toxin intake (and even the chronic effects for the vast majority are manageable)--and yet not surprising to me in the least that the body can return itself to a much healthier state so quickly after the toxins cease to be ingested. Our bodies want, really badly, to regulate into a healthy state.
Getting people to understand that our modern diet consists of slowly poisoning ourselves is the real battle to fight.
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 ..
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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.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
They must be *really* fat if they're taking up both 2nd and 3rd place.
I gave up sugar and I became very angry as I went through what can only be described as withdrawal symptoms. Eventually I started eating again after a few months. I noticed almost everything we eat is super sweet. Fruit tastes like candy and soda was not palatable. Health benefits was everything mentioned except LDL which stayed high. Still a fun experiment.
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...or they could just stop subsidizing sugar production.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
I'm with you dude. Refined sugar is a drug and schools are the pushers. My kids school hands out sugary crap like candy, but they'd be pissed if I showed up and passed out similarly harmful drugs.
He once inserted random mutations into his code, just so he could have the experience of debugging.
I eliminated sugar, wheat, caffeine, and dairy. I lost 80lbs, cut my risk of heart disease by more than half (per blood labs) and my hair started to grow back (vitamins and meditation help to a lesser degree). I was able to start running and lifiting and the ladies are way interested. But go ahead and munch on Doritos and Mt. Dew if you prefer - a goatee should compensate.
Oh, and I have literally hundreds of delicious dishes I can make without doing any foraging. Just shop the outer perimeter of the grocery store and experience real food.
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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.
One of our competitors trademarked the term "hypothesis". From now on, we will call them "boneheaded ideas".
"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.
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.
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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.
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