How the Sugar Industry Shifted Blame to Fat
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How the Sugar Industry Shifted Blame to Fat
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#2We're going to need another Surgeon General's warning, it seems.
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#3What about the fat industry? Didn't they have enough money to pay for scientists to shift the blame to sugar?
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#4When in fact nothing can be blamed but our overconsumption of almost everything but vegetables and fruits.
I eat about 70% from my calories in carbs (some are refined), but it's just 2500kcal calories per day. I'm pretty sure the fact that average US citizen eats 3500kcal daily has more to do with anything than what particular ingredient one eats.
edit: some irrational unscientific and anegdotal statements require me to remove myself from discussion. thanks.. for the downvotes, I'm outta here boys! :wink:
Re: How the Sugar Industry Shifted Blame to Fat
#5When in fact nothing can be blamed but our overconsumption of almost everything but vegetables and fruits. I eat about 70% from my calories in carbs (some are refined), but it's just 2500kcal calories per day. I'm pretty sure the fact that average US citizen eats 3500kcal daily has more to do with anything than what particular ingredient one eats. edit: some irrational unscientific and anegdotal statements require me…
Then the question is why do they eat 3500kcal? The hypothesis is that sugar does not make people feel full whereas fat does, so they eat more. A calorie is not a calorie.
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#6There seems to be increasing evidence that high blood sugar over a long period of time is very bad for you. That insulin response keeps this under control mostly... but that it was probably never meant to be active all day, every day. So eating lots of sugar (and carbs in general) at every meal is probably long term, not the best thing you can do.
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#7When in fact nothing can be blamed but our overconsumption of almost everything but vegetables and fruits. I eat about 70% from my calories in carbs (some are refined), but it's just 2500kcal calories per day. I'm pretty sure the fact that average US citizen eats 3500kcal daily has more to do with anything than what particular ingredient one eats. edit: some irrational unscientific and anegdotal statements require me…
Then the question is why do they eat 3500kcal? The hypothesis is that sugar does not make people feel full whereas fat does, so they eat more. A calorie is not a calorie.
> The hypothesis is that sugar does not make people feel full whereas fat does, so they eat more.
They still eat about 1500kcal of fat and protein - of which I eat about half the amount.
If you were really talking about feeling full, nothing makes you feel more full than a belly and guts filled with lovely starch/fiber from fruits and vegetables, which an average US eats little if not any.
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#8RIP: British Scientist John Yudkin - The man who tried to warn us about the perils of sugar..
Source(s) : http://www.telegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/wellbeing/diet/10634081...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Yudkin
Edit: Lest we not forget his arch-enemy Ancel Keys
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#9This quote from the article is a great one:
"It was a very smart thing the sugar industry did because review papers, especially if you get them published in a very prominent journal, tend to shape the overall scientific discussion"
Has the acceptance policy for prominent journals improved that we're sure this is not happening now? I have suspicions that this is likely still happening more frequently then we might expect (i.e. pharmaceutical trials, etc.).
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#10When in fact nothing can be blamed but our overconsumption of almost everything but vegetables and fruits. I eat about 70% from my calories in carbs (some are refined), but it's just 2500kcal calories per day. I'm pretty sure the fact that average US citizen eats 3500kcal daily has more to do with anything than what particular ingredient one eats. edit: some irrational unscientific and anegdotal statements require me…
Individual food components can always be "blamed" relatively to their impact.
You may be accidentaly shifting blame to overconsumption. Something the sugar industry would do :-)