Type 2 Diabetes and cardiovascular disease attributable to sugar beverages

Post by curiousgal » Wed, Jan 08, 2025, 6:41 AM UTC

sitkack wrote: post #2

> Burdens of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease attributable to sugar-sweetened beverages in 184 countries https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-03345-4.pdf The data and the code used for the analysis appears to be available. ---- One of the reasons that we don't have Universal Healthcare in the US is that things that are categorically unhealthy would be prohibited from being sold. Afterall, it would ben…

Post by eitally » Wed, Jan 08, 2025, 7:02 AM UTC

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About 15 years ago, I stopped drinking soda. Not out of a desire to be healthy or loose weight but simply because it dawned on me that for the same amount of sugar in one soft drink that I drink without any afterthought, I could enjoy a really good pastry that I can slowly savor. I do the same for fats. The way I look at it, I want to maximize the "enjoyment per kcalorie". :) More recently, I'm starting to apply this…

In most cases you could eat multiple pastries and still have significantly less sugar than a soda.

Post by neom » Wed, Jan 08, 2025, 7:04 AM UTC

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eh, Diet Coke is primarily water, aspartame, phosphoric acid and caffeine. I drink 5/6 of them a day (don't like water much). The paper linked actually says short term effects of diet soda are less problematic, but recent evidence suggests that aspartame may have harms on the microbiome and glucose tolerance generally. That said, the idea of drinking anything either sweet or carbonated before bed, during the night, o…

Have you ever tried plain carbonated water? It's more interesting than still water, and for me more thirst quenching. Easy to make at home with a Soda Stream or similar, just don't add any of their syrup.

Post by peaceanwar » Wed, Jan 08, 2025, 7:05 AM UTC

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It's probably a risky line of thinking, if you're addicted to sugar, to substitute in some other source of sugar. Best to avoid pastries, lollipops and sugary sodas.

It's a risky way of thinking to reduce every act to a moral choice. ie I could have used the energy that I burned making this post, to hand out a dollar to a homeless person. Beyond how ridiculously reductive this becomes, it's impractical. You have to have carbs for your brain to run.

Post by aziaziazi » Wed, Jan 08, 2025, 7:08 AM UTC

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Good for you. I think for meat especially, there's a difference between the stuff people talk about (like premium steaks they almost never eat) and the reality of what ends up on their plates which is a lot less glamorous. A typical fast food burger just isn't that great in terms of texture, taste, looks, etc. and IMHO almost always disappointingly unsatisfying and slightly uncomfortable afterwards. I'll eat that onc…

> Restaurants bulk out their dishes with carbs and they make things taste good by adding salt and fats. Anthony Bourdain wrote in Kitchen Confidential : “If you eat at any good restaurant, assume you've eaten a stick of butter.”