Sugar…worse than you thought.

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K- Lo

9:42 pm
12 Sep 16
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THe New York TImes reports that the sugar industry paid scientists in the 1960s to downplay the link between sugar and heart disease and promote saturated fat as the culprit instead, newly released historical documents show.

The internal sugar industry documents, recently discovered by a researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, and published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine, suggest that five decades of research into the role of nutrition and heart disease — including many of today’s dietary recommendations — may have been largely shaped by the sugar industry.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/13/well/eat/how-the-sugar-industry-shifted-blame-to-fat.html?_r=0

bigbooty

3:46 am
13 Sep 16
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Thanks K-Lo. Just downloaded the journal article by Dr Glantz. Should make for interesting reading.

K- Lo

3:52 am
13 Sep 16
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Infuriating reading. To think of all the lives ruined by reliance on faked data.

bigbooty

3:57 am
13 Sep 16
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Yep. Ive been banging on about sugar and simple grain based carbs for ages. 6-10 serves of grains per day is still a concept being pushed my many health professionals. The food pyramid should be put out to pasture. Most simple grain products are converted to sugar as your chewing it in your mouth. Its largely been broken down into sugar before you’ve even swallowed the mouthful!!

K- Lo

4:00 am
13 Sep 16
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I’ve been trying to convince people for decades

Cinque

5:12 am
13 Sep 16
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Love my grains! But simple sugars are out.

bigbooty

5:23 am
13 Sep 16
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Cinque, I loved my bread as well! Real bread the crusty type stuff. Had to basically give it up, haven’t looked back since. Probably only have a slice of bread per week now. Its basically converted into sugar before you’ve even swallowed it. There is a reason it tastes so sweet in your mouth!

bigbooty

7:49 am
13 Sep 16
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Just had a good read of the journal article. To borrow a line from the film All the presidents men “follow the money”. Just put a couple of influential academics “on the pay role” to discredit the work of Yudkin (his research involved connecting sugar to heart disease) and promote the increased use of sugar as a “safe’ alternative to fat. It was all about the sugar industry increasing market share! 50 years later the truth is only just coming to the surface. refined sugar is killing people.

Minka

7:54 am
17 Sep 16
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Here’s a scholarly abstract that supports the view that eating refined white sugar is akin to taking drugs. In other words, the eating of white sugar even intermittently lends itself to a dependence and compels us to eat more. As this abstract explains, the consumption of white refined sugar releases the same brain chemicals as addictive drugs. I really liked reading this because it makes sense of why I’m just so much better off without any sugar. Many report that they can’t give it up completely, though I find that even if I eat a little I suddenly find myself wanting more, whereas if I hadn’t consumed it in the first place, wouldn’t have cared/craved. It was refreshing reading that there is a bio-chemical component to why I feel this way and that it doesn’t mean that I’m simply weak willed.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2235907/