I ate 40 teaspoons of sugar a day. This is what happened (2015)
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#2Morgan Spurlock really let himself go.
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#4The math does not add up.
40 grams of sugar does not have enough calories for you to gain 3 kilograms in 12 days, or 8.5 kilograms in 21 days.
Moreover, if he ate as much as the average American eats, how is it that the average American has not experienced what he has? The guy almost gained 1 pound a day.
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#5I thought bored journalists who did binge or denial experiments on themselves went out of style in 2015. Please don't come back.
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#6Ignoring confounding variables, and a sample size of one caused me to discount this "study". While I'm sure sugar consumption is an issue, this escapade seems like more of a capitalist venture than anything else.
Re: I ate 40 teaspoons of sugar a day. This is what happened (2015)
#7The math does not add up. 40 grams of sugar does not have enough calories for you to gain 3 kilograms in 12 days, or 8.5 kilograms in 21 days. Moreover, if he ate as much as the average American eats, how is it that the average American has not experienced what he has? The guy almost gained 1 pound a day.
He ate 40 teaspoons which is 160 grams of sugar. Also, perhaps the fact that he went from very little sugar to 160 grams a day caused rapid weight gain. I know for instance that your body changes over time to burn fat more efficiently if you are on a lower carb diet, perhaps the reverse is true as well.
Re: I ate 40 teaspoons of sugar a day. This is what happened (2015)
#8The math does not add up. 40 grams of sugar does not have enough calories for you to gain 3 kilograms in 12 days, or 8.5 kilograms in 21 days. Moreover, if he ate as much as the average American eats, how is it that the average American has not experienced what he has? The guy almost gained 1 pound a day.
What else did he eat? Sugar will raise your insulin level, which directs more blood sugar to fat cells.
So it's not just a case of calories in calories out.
Re: I ate 40 teaspoons of sugar a day. This is what happened (2015)
#9The math does not add up. 40 grams of sugar does not have enough calories for you to gain 3 kilograms in 12 days, or 8.5 kilograms in 21 days. Moreover, if he ate as much as the average American eats, how is it that the average American has not experienced what he has? The guy almost gained 1 pound a day.
What else did he eat? Sugar will raise your insulin level, which directs more blood sugar to fat cells. So it's not just a case of calories in calories out.
It is a matter of calories in calories out.
He didn't just increase his concentration of fat, he straight up gained 8.5 kilograms of mass.
Re: I ate 40 teaspoons of sugar a day. This is what happened (2015)
#10The math does not add up. 40 grams of sugar does not have enough calories for you to gain 3 kilograms in 12 days, or 8.5 kilograms in 21 days. Moreover, if he ate as much as the average American eats, how is it that the average American has not experienced what he has? The guy almost gained 1 pound a day.
He ate 40 teaspoons which is 160 grams of sugar. Also, perhaps the fact that he went from very little sugar to 160 grams a day caused rapid weight gain. I know for instance that your body changes over time to burn fat more efficiently if you are on a lower carb diet, perhaps the reverse is true as well.
Weight gain is impossible without the necessary amount of calories. It is the simple law of conservation of mass/energy.
160 calories * 21 days = 3360 calories. This is enough to gain about 1 pound of weight, not 19.