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I actually remember reading John Yudkin's stuff in the 1970s. I thought he was bonkers because he said he put black pepper on his strawberries rather than sugar.
Black pepper on strawberries turns out to be lovely and sugar turned out to be evil.
Also I have cut down on sugar. Except in coffee. Sweetener is, I reckon, worse, and I am not grown enough to like coffee without sugar in it.
I don't have fruit juice or smoothies for this reason, far too much sugar. Half a spoon on Porridge occasionally.
I do look at people drinking massive energy drinks in the morning and wonder what they are doing to themselves, that can't be good.
modern nonsense.
My BMI is fine but I couldn't care less about it, but I avoid too much sugar because I've barely got enough teeth left to eat, although that reminds me, I have to buy some listerine on recommendation.
I put black pepper on ready salted crisps, nothing compares! Couldn't be putting sugar on my ready salted crisps though, that simply wouldn't work.
On some diets, smoothies are not allowed, or restricted. They basically allow you to gorge even more on fruit than usual - instead of having a banana and an apple and maybe a few grapes and being totally satisfied, you could have a banana, an apple, some orange juice, some mango, papaya, kiwi and Apple juice and still feel less satisfied at the end because you didn't mechanically chew it.
But unless you have a real medical reason, I'd not avoid eating fruit. I was absolutely fucking shocked at how much sugar is in a 500ml bottle of ribena, a popular kids drink.
http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/gb/groceries/ribena-blackcurrant-500ml?langId=44&storeId=10151&krypto=3/Zg/HP/HOrQjAXCTJZGnI/jn55s6FNeXv958jgZDAln2/bVcPrJNH/vJ5nMYhzyD2UhzmAU+qMUZbSgRaLB5OVxUPWHPT1ACi8oZTMKDABNpsk2ppr4k74WNGCVNTlJQez53V3XCJgSo9gYqDcr/D0UP9lgxe0PXDWdeJMvDfs=&ddkey=http:gb/groceries/ribena-blackcurrant-500ml
10 teaspoons of sugar in a bottle!
Got another one this month to see if a bacterial infection in my gut has cleared up after 8 months of antibiotics! I'll put em out of business!
It is certainly good to be sceptical, but there is plenty of good information out there about it, and actually, has been since the 70's. So the problems of metabolic syndrome have ben understood for decades, but the causes of that haven't. They were actually blamed on fats for decades because the correlation was there, but it was also there with sugar. Fat looked a more likely candidate over a set of seven countries, it fitted perfectly.
The problem then though is that you get countries like France (and actually a lot of others), with high levels of saturated fats intake and the lowest levels of heart disease.
So the problem (metabolic diseases) have been known about for a long time, but the evidence that was used to jump to the conclusion that saturated fats caused it seems was "modern nonsense", and the actual culprit from a scientific (or theoretical) point of view, but more importantly from a statistical point of view points to sugar. It doesn't mean there are not safe levels of sugar (and carbs which convert to sugar), and no doubt those levels will change over time, but if you are going to be sceptical, ensure you are sceptical about the saturated fats being the cause at least as much as sugar!
Look at Jamie Oliver promote olive oil, he fucking drowns his food in it, that's not good for you.
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But idon't look to Oliver for health advice, he is a chef, not a doctor
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100g of strawberries is a reasonable amount to eat, but it's only 6g of carbs/sugar. Alternatively you could have one heaped teaspoon of strawberry jam. I love jam, but I know which I'd choose.
I'm diabetic but I still eat some fruit, mostly berries and citrus fruits. I do avoid things like pineapple and mango which have a higher sugar content. And I don't drink fruit juices or eat dried fruit.
My dad has lots of fillings because his generation was raised on sugar. He used to add sugar to everything
I went to the dentist a few months back, first time in 18 years. My teeth are absolutely fine. I don't add excess sugar to anything.
i am just getting in there before you make any racial comments.... I think it's generational rather than genetic
natural fruit sugars are fine if fine if you can accept they exist. this means fruit can be both healthy and full of sugar ...
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