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I ate 40 teaspoons of sugar a day. This is what happened (2015)

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Re: I ate 40 teaspoons of sugar a day. This is what happened (2015)

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Post by dualogy »

dabadoo wrote: post #10
thomyorkie wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

A good time for you to prove that every single one out of trillions of living mammalian bodies satisfy your robotic maths to any degree of confidence!

Re: I ate 40 teaspoons of sugar a day. This is what happened (2015)

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Post by aidenn0 »

dabadoo wrote: post #4

The 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.

The more sugar I eat at one meal, the hungrier I am at the next meal. It's entirely possible that his caloric intake went up by a lot more than the 619kCal per day he got of sugar.

Re: I ate 40 teaspoons of sugar a day. This is what happened (2015)

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Post by [deleted] »

dabadoo wrote: post #10
thomyorkie wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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Re: I ate 40 teaspoons of sugar a day. This is what happened (2015)

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Post by shamaku »

dabadoo wrote: post #4

The 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.

40 grams of sugar? 40 teaspoons is closer to 160+ grams.

Re: I ate 40 teaspoons of sugar a day. This is what happened (2015)

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Post by chinathrow »

dabadoo wrote: post #10
thomyorkie wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Well, he also ate other stuff "around" those sugar calories, not?

Re: I ate 40 teaspoons of sugar a day. This is what happened (2015)

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Post by tomohawk »

I made one change. I avoided any foods with high fructose corn syrup. I wasn't over weight, but doing that one thing had many positive results. I dropped unnecessary belly fat. I had better, more consistent energy throughout the day. Sharper focus. I am no longer interested in cheap desert type stuff - it tastes like crap. When I eat a desert now, I go for something that's really nice, and I really enjoy it.

It's not calories in / calories out. The bodies response to HFC is to open up the gate to converting whatever nutrients you've eaten recently into fat. Eating that little candy from the jar on your co-workers desk after lunch? That's a big deal.

Re: I ate 40 teaspoons of sugar a day. This is what happened (2015)

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Post by DiThi »

dabadoo wrote: post #9
ryanobjc wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

He was already eating more calories than he needed. The difference is that after changing his diet he was excreting less calories, since sugar (specifically fructose in the absence of fiber) is absorbed quickly and almost entirely.

Re: I ate 40 teaspoons of sugar a day. This is what happened (2015)

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Post by mynameislegion1 »

DanBC wrote: post #17

"That Sugar Film" is interesting, and worth a watch. The stuff about dental health in poor parts of America is gruesome. He's pushing his agenda pretty hard. It's good that it's an obvious bias, but it makes the film a bit exhausting to watch. The "sugar is pure evil" line is relentlessly pushed through the film. That's a shame, because he has some really good points, especially around foods perceived as healthy. htt…

With all this recent vilification of sugar, I start to wonder if 10 years from now we will suddenly realize that it's more complicated than that, as we've found with fat and cholesterol? ... and in the mean time supermarkets will get filled with "healthy" they're-not-unripe-they're-low-sugar fruit, and organic sugar-reduced 100% apple juice...

Re: I ate 40 teaspoons of sugar a day. This is what happened (2015)

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Post by hrodriguez »

I didn't watch the film or do other research except for reading the article. I just wonder what the effects of a lifetime of bad eating, smoking and who knows what else... did to his body previously. He may have already built-up some medical issues.

Any problems he had previously weren't reported and analysed in the article. A "healthy" diet for 3 years doesn't miraculously erase his past. To suddenly go into a divergent new shock diet without a slow adjustment period could have the body reacting in ways that were unforeseen as a way of protecting itself.

I'm not suggesting, in the least, that 40 teaspoon of a sugar every single day is good for anyone(LOL). It just seems that lots of people in that range would have off days where they hit that high for a day or two... followed by lower sugar intakes for several days (giving the body time to heal or adjust).

It just reminds me of the "Deadly Facts about Water" meme:

https://imgur.com/gallery/hv8sL2J

Re: I ate 40 teaspoons of sugar a day. This is what happened (2015)

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Post by DesiLurker »

dabadoo wrote: post #10
thomyorkie wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I dont think thats the central message of the film at all. the problem with human digestive system is that it evolved for very different set of conditions & has very limited 'floating' capacity for carbs. so when you eat highly processed food with short chain carbs what you get is sudden overload in carrying capacity of blood stream. body responds by storing it away as fat. OTOH when you are short on energy body produces hunger signals before tapping into fat reserves so eat again & cycle repeats. the message IMO is about composition of what you eat (centered around sugar).
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