Lets Not Sugar Coat It
July 30th 2007 19:33
I would like to return today to the recent study that linked cola drinks to increased obesity. If you don't understand how drinking regular colas can contribute weight gain, you have been in a cave for 20 years. Decades ago the cola companies discovered that they could produce their drinks more cheaply with high fructose corn syrup than sugar. The fact is that sugar is a horrible substance to take into the body, but high fructose corn syrup is worse. If you would like proof, compare the two on a glycemic index chart. If you have to have sugar or corn syrup once in awhile, I suggest you eat something sugary and get the maximum enjoyment out of it. Drinking high glycemic products seems to me to be too quick a fix and just as damaging as a big piece of cake.
While I am on the sugar topic, I would like to offer the official NMF position on sugar: it is an addictive product and should be treated like every other such substance. Unlike tobacco and alcohol, sugar can be clandestinely inserted into products of all kinds. That makes it insidious in a way they are tobacco and alcohol are not. Pick up the items you buy and look at the labels. Sugar is often present.What is more, you are probably addicted to sugar to the point that these products will seem flat if you buy the version that is sugar free or artificially sweetened. The damage of a lifetime of sugar is evident all around.Where would the obesity epidemic be without it?What about the diabetes epidemic?
The damage that sugar does is one of the reasons that the low carb-high protein diet is successful for adherents(at least, until they have a sugar breakdown and revert to their sugary ways). Restrict yourself to protein and vegetables and what have you done? You have made it impossible to get a large amount of sugar. Eat a diet of carbs that is free of sugar and you will find that many of your favorite carb foods are no longer as satifying. I remember that the sauce I liked on my spaghetti seemed flat tasting until I... well, you guessed it.
The way to deal with such an addiction is one day at a time. You are well served to consider yourself a sugarholic and treat it just like an alcoholic treats alcohol. That means you are in a daily struggle to keep away from it. If you succumb(and you will) you must recommit to the struggle and go on. If you think that you will just cut back, you will not succeed. You are better off going cold turkey and repenting your breakdowns than trying to compromise with sugar.As always, your servant.
While I am on the sugar topic, I would like to offer the official NMF position on sugar: it is an addictive product and should be treated like every other such substance. Unlike tobacco and alcohol, sugar can be clandestinely inserted into products of all kinds. That makes it insidious in a way they are tobacco and alcohol are not. Pick up the items you buy and look at the labels. Sugar is often present.What is more, you are probably addicted to sugar to the point that these products will seem flat if you buy the version that is sugar free or artificially sweetened. The damage of a lifetime of sugar is evident all around.Where would the obesity epidemic be without it?What about the diabetes epidemic?
The damage that sugar does is one of the reasons that the low carb-high protein diet is successful for adherents(at least, until they have a sugar breakdown and revert to their sugary ways). Restrict yourself to protein and vegetables and what have you done? You have made it impossible to get a large amount of sugar. Eat a diet of carbs that is free of sugar and you will find that many of your favorite carb foods are no longer as satifying. I remember that the sauce I liked on my spaghetti seemed flat tasting until I... well, you guessed it.
The way to deal with such an addiction is one day at a time. You are well served to consider yourself a sugarholic and treat it just like an alcoholic treats alcohol. That means you are in a daily struggle to keep away from it. If you succumb(and you will) you must recommit to the struggle and go on. If you think that you will just cut back, you will not succeed. You are better off going cold turkey and repenting your breakdowns than trying to compromise with sugar.As always, your servant.
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