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High Fructose Corn Syrup-Moderate Fat Diet Potentiates Anxio-Depressive Behavior

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Re: High Fructose Corn Syrup-Moderate Fat Diet Potentiates Anxio-Depressive Behavior

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Post by obiwan14 »

kibwen wrote: post #10
robmerki wrote: post #4

Anecdotal, but I recently started a no-sugar diet just to see what would happen, and I saw an immediate improvement in my mood. I wake up feeling excited about my day instead of groggy. I also get less tired in the evenings after work. It's not perfect, but there's a clear difference. I'm not going back. Also, it made me realize how much sugar/HFCS/etc. is in everything. I have a feeling the next few decades of resea…

Even if you can't cut out sugar from your diet entirely (which is really hard given how much added sugar there is in anything that hasn't been pulled directly out of the ground), giving up sugary drinks and candy will make a big difference, as they're the biggest offenders. Even if you switch from a sugary drink to the zero-calorie version of that drink, you'll be doing yourself a favor in the long run; the jury's ou…

It's actually easy to cut out refined sugar from ones diet. The only sugar I eat these days is the one that occurs naturally in the foods I cook.

Re: High Fructose Corn Syrup-Moderate Fat Diet Potentiates Anxio-Depressive Behavior

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Post by colechristensen »

imranhou wrote: post #20

Is it possible we are seeing it the wrong way, does anxio-depressive mood trigger you to go on sugar binge?

It’s important to point out that anxiety and depression aren’t one condition with one cause, they’re easy to diagnose symptom clusters. What helps some people with them likely won’t help everyone as there are many different underlying causes.

One cause has been suggested and researched that certain gut flora can manipulate your mood to cause you to feed them what they want. I.e. diet and mood can be codependent where the blame goes both ways.

Re: High Fructose Corn Syrup-Moderate Fat Diet Potentiates Anxio-Depressive Behavior

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Post by agumonkey »

robmerki wrote: post #4

Anecdotal, but I recently started a no-sugar diet just to see what would happen, and I saw an immediate improvement in my mood. I wake up feeling excited about my day instead of groggy. I also get less tired in the evenings after work. It's not perfect, but there's a clear difference. I'm not going back. Also, it made me realize how much sugar/HFCS/etc. is in everything. I have a feeling the next few decades of resea…

ah yeah your taste buds suddenly become a lot finer.. Someone said sugar is causing a little sensory overload making you blind.

IMO we're already near there about research, if you take the mean of publications, it points at low amount of simple non processed food, sports and other absolutely stupid things that modern life took away or made pricey (nature).

Re: High Fructose Corn Syrup-Moderate Fat Diet Potentiates Anxio-Depressive Behavior

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Post by 100011_100001 »

Sugar and HFCS = bad.

What about carbs? It seems that we are throwing out the baby with the bath water. Does anyone have any good studies about carb consumption not focused on sugar?

Something like Keto diet (no carbs or sugar) vs Plant Based (lots of carbs, no refined sugar)

Re: High Fructose Corn Syrup-Moderate Fat Diet Potentiates Anxio-Depressive Behavior

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Post by [deleted] »

wpasc wrote: post #24
fdgsdfogijq wrote: post #22

Adding another datapoint, I went Keto, no carbs/no sugar, grass fed meat and vegetables, eggs, some dairy. I have never felt better in my whole life. I wake up with a clear mind. Throw in some exercise, and I have started to naturally cut back on my caffeine habit, something I have used heavily for ten years. I just wake up and no longer feel like I need three cups of coffee.

did you notice improvements at non-Keto low carb? Did you have to strictly be in Ketosis and under the ~50g limit to get the benefits? Curious about your anecdotal experience with Keto

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Re: High Fructose Corn Syrup-Moderate Fat Diet Potentiates Anxio-Depressive Behavior

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Post by mrandish »

N=1 but... I was severely overweight for decades and went to a very low carb diet to lose weight. It worked. I lost a hundred pounds in 7 months and have stayed steady at my ideal weight now for over three years.

A very low carb diet also dramatically reduces HFCF as well as most highly processed foods and it definitely had a dramatic effect improving my emotional and mental state too, even though I wasn't expecting it to. It's really helped my stay low

Re: High Fructose Corn Syrup-Moderate Fat Diet Potentiates Anxio-Depressive Behavior

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Post by guruz »

robmerki wrote: post #4

Anecdotal, but I recently started a no-sugar diet just to see what would happen, and I saw an immediate improvement in my mood. I wake up feeling excited about my day instead of groggy. I also get less tired in the evenings after work. It's not perfect, but there's a clear difference. I'm not going back. Also, it made me realize how much sugar/HFCS/etc. is in everything. I have a feeling the next few decades of resea…

Also anecdotal but seen this confirmed by others: Cutting out seed oils and eating more saturated fat (butter) lessens sugar/carb cravings by a lot and makes cutting out both of those toxins easier.

https://www.reddit.com/r/StopEatingSeedOils/ https://www.reddit.com/r/SaturatedFat/

Re: High Fructose Corn Syrup-Moderate Fat Diet Potentiates Anxio-Depressive Behavior

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Post by p_j_w »

mrandish wrote: post #46

N=1 but... I was severely overweight for decades and went to a very low carb diet to lose weight. It worked. I lost a hundred pounds in 7 months and have stayed steady at my ideal weight now for over three years. A very low carb diet also dramatically reduces HFCF as well as most highly processed foods and it definitely had a dramatic effect improving my emotional and mental state too, even though I wasn't expecting…

>I lost a hundred pounds in 7 months

Am I right to assume you were working pretty closely with your doctor on this?

Re: High Fructose Corn Syrup-Moderate Fat Diet Potentiates Anxio-Depressive Behavior

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Post by copperx »

i_am_proteus wrote: post #32
cat199 wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Even if you switch from a sugary drink to the zero-calorie version of that drink, you'll be doing yourself a favor in the long run; the jury's out on how bad aspartame is for you, but we know very well how bad these quantities of sugar are for you. this statement is logically incorrect - if the 'jury is out' on aspertame, when it 'reconvenes' it could discover that it is worse for you than HFCS, and so no, in fact,…

Good 0 cal drinks to try are: water, coffee, and tea.

If we go to the extreme, coffee is potentially carcinogenic (charred beans -> acrylamide, but research is inconclusive), and tea contains mercury, fluoride, and arsenic.

It's hard to say whether aspartame is worse or better than tea and coffee.

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