Is there much difference between sugar and refined carbs like white bread?
No the body will convert all sugars / carbs the same. The only difference is how fast it will get in your blood.
Is it time to treat sugar like smoking?
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Re: Is it time to treat sugar like smoking?
#22How about we start treating alcohol like smoking? For example ban alcohol advertising like we have with tobacco and I bet society would improve in a lot of unforeseen ways (besides the obvious reduction in alcohol related deaths and diseases and family issues).
You must be fun at parties.
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#23Is there much difference between sugar and refined carbs like white bread?
Sugar is 50% glucose 50% fructose while white bread is only long chains of glucose, unless sugar was added to it too (only a thing in the US AFAIK).
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#24Is there much difference between sugar and refined carbs like white bread?
Fiber content, caloric density, and palatability.
Re: Is it time to treat sugar like smoking?
#25That's simply not going to happen because there is no "second hand sugar" scenario. Even alcohol, which is incredibly destructive to third parties by any measure (domestic abuse, drunk driving, etc), hasn't successfully been publicly vilified to the same extent as smoking.
Sugar addict in next plane seat in long haul flight is definitely "second hand sugar".
Some people being addicted to sugar makes food makers add sugar where it's not needed or increase it's quantity a lot. So you have harder time limiting your sugar input.
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#26That's simply not going to happen because there is no "second hand sugar" scenario. Even alcohol, which is incredibly destructive to third parties by any measure (domestic abuse, drunk driving, etc), hasn't successfully been publicly vilified to the same extent as smoking.
It was, back in the 1920's.
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#28How about we start treating alcohol like smoking? For example ban alcohol advertising like we have with tobacco and I bet society would improve in a lot of unforeseen ways (besides the obvious reduction in alcohol related deaths and diseases and family issues).
I distinctly recall these (and much more restrictive) measures having been tried in the U.S. almost exactly 100 years ago, to a very modest success. Sugar seems to be an easier target, because there are sweeteners like aspartame. Alcohol almost by definition doesn't have a healthy replacement.
Cannabis.
Re: Is it time to treat sugar like smoking?
#29How about we start treating alcohol like smoking? For example ban alcohol advertising like we have with tobacco and I bet society would improve in a lot of unforeseen ways (besides the obvious reduction in alcohol related deaths and diseases and family issues).
For most people, alcohol isn’t addictive in the same way that smoking or sugar is. If you eat stuff with a lot of sugar it makes things without sugar actually taste worse. Whereas drinking alcohol doesn’t make water taste worse or whatever.
Also alcohol only kills 80k or so Americans per year, way less than smoking or sugar.
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#30While we're on the topic of telling people how to live, why don't we keep the sugar and simply start exercising?