Re: sugar industry admits that sugar is evil

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Yes it is nutritious and useful, it provides energy in two forms that
are those basic forms used in the body,ie glucose and fructose.

Yes, the body runs on sugar, but how it gets the sugar is the issue. If it
comes as a byproduct of digestion of healthful foods, it's much better than
getting it from table sugar or from soda. For that matter, it's better than
getting it from any product in which refined sugar has been added assuming
there are adequate quantities of more healthful food.

Eating whole grains or refined grains or a bowl of raw sugar will all end up
putting glucose in the blood stream. Doing it with whole grains,
vegetables, etc. will allow it to enter the body at a better pace, without
resulting in blood sugar spikes, a quick influx of insulin, and reactive
hypoglycemia.

So it's not that sugar is inherently bad, but we are really talking about
what the sugar industry is selling vs getting sugar other ways.

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These two forms are the basic energy source of metabolism that
underlies most activities of living. Yes, it, like any other
nutritional substance, can in excess have negative effects. An
article I read today says that too much sugar consumed by children is
not by itself a problem but it is a problem because the calories the
sugar provides is substituted for other food sources that provide
other vital nutritional substances, and a deficit results in them.

It may not be a problem by itself, but in real life, those other factors are
not going away. So realistically, children should consume less food with
added sugar and more wholesome foods.

"Eating whole grains or refined grains or a bowl of raw sugar will all end
up
putting glucose in the blood stream. Doing it with whole grains,
vegetables, etc. will allow it to enter the body at a better pace, without
resulting in blood sugar spikes, a quick influx of insulin, and reactive
hypoglycemia."

In a person without metabolic disorder the glucose and insulin are tightly
controled and track each other in detail. As soon as the glucose is in
the blood insulin increases and then just as rapidily decreases when the
level is back to he baseline level. Insulin doesn't stay around to force a
below baseline level because it is stopped before that happens, it is a
tight feedback system.

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"Eating whole grains or refined grains or a bowl of raw sugar will

all end

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up
putting glucose in the blood stream. Doing it with whole grains,
vegetables, etc. will allow it to enter the body at a better pace,

without

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resulting in blood sugar spikes, a quick influx of insulin, and

reactive

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hypoglycemia."

In a person without metabolic disorder the glucose and insulin are

tightly

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controled and track each other in detail. As soon as the glucose is

in

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the blood insulin increases and then just as rapidily decreases when

the

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level is back to he baseline level. Insulin doesn't stay around to

force a

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below baseline level because it is stopped before that happens, it is

a

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tight feedback system.

And anyone eating excess amounts of refined carbs for an extended
amount of time will develop some degree of syndrome x, a metabolic
disorder. Remember that one can suffer degrees of metabolic syndrome x.
It isn't completely an either/or scenario. It's not a situation where
one part of the population has absolutely no metabolic syndrome x and
the rest do. It is a matter of degrees.

Children weaned on high carb formula and then drinking large amounts of
sugary juices and sodas will develop some insulin resistance and other
signs of syndrome x early on. They may not show full blown signs of
syndrome x but the show some signs. the damage is being done on an
ongoing basis in a dose dependent manner.

A diet that is un-naturally high in refined carbs will cause the body
to produce un-naturally high levels of insulin, thus skewing the
naturally tight control the body has on insulin-glucagon levels. the
larger than normal amounts of insulin batter the insulin receptors and
actually cause b cell death, which causes insulin resistance. In
response to insulin resistance, the body must produce even more insulin
to get the same results as before. Eventually the pancreas produces its
lifetime of insulin and cannot produce any more.

One does not develop this metabolic condition overnight, and it does
not appear out of the blue. It is a slow insidious process that begins
with too much refined carbs in the diet causing chronic high blood
sugar levels which then leads over time to a lot of damage to the
entire system.

TC