The sugar conspiracy: sugar—not fat—is the greatest danger to our health
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Re: The sugar conspiracy: sugar—not fat—is the greatest danger to our health
#2This is a duplicate from four (4) days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11444941
Re: The sugar conspiracy: sugar—not fat—is the greatest danger to our health
#3> In 1972, a British scientist sounded the alarm that sugar – and not fat – was the greatest danger to our health. But his findings were ridiculed and his reputation ruined. How did the world’s top nutrition scientists get it so wrong for so long?
First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Re: The sugar conspiracy: sugar—not fat—is the greatest danger to our health
#4> In 1972, a British scientist sounded the alarm that sugar – and not fat – was the greatest danger to our health. But his findings were ridiculed and his reputation ruined. How did the world’s top nutrition scientists get it so wrong for so long? First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Fourth, it is claimed that it was understood this way all along and everybody always knew it.
Re: The sugar conspiracy: sugar—not fat—is the greatest danger to our health
#5This is a duplicate from four (4) days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11444941
Thank God. I was questioning both my sanity and the freshness of my browser's cache.
Re: The sugar conspiracy: sugar—not fat—is the greatest danger to our health
#6This story always remind me of this interesting study done on rats, where they found sugar more tantalizing than cocaine or heroine.[0] Take it with a grain of salt (or sugar, if you prefer), since sugar has some nutritional value, but this is a little terrifying. Look at the obese, particularly in the USA, and look at these massive buckets of soda they drink, breads stuffed with 20+grams of sugar, sweets which are literally nothing except colored sugar. The public desperately needs some education, just like how trans-fats were scared out of us 10-20 years ago.
[0] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/connie-bennett/the-rats-who-pr...
Re: The sugar conspiracy: sugar—not fat—is the greatest danger to our health
#7So when can we have stevia into all of our food?
Re: The sugar conspiracy: sugar—not fat—is the greatest danger to our health
#8So when can we have stevia into all of our food?
I tried stevia for a while. It doesn't come even close to sugar's flavor and eventually I just gave it up.
Re: The sugar conspiracy: sugar—not fat—is the greatest danger to our health
#9Just the other day was in a store saw a package of candy -- basically pure sugar + artificial food coloring. Big giant label on the front -- "Fat Free!". It is true. But somewhat misleading as to what it implies -- "this is healthy, no fats here, eat this".
And also "2.5 servings per package", while most people would it eat it a single serving I imagine, but hey, they calorie counts look more reasonable, so they just divided whatever calories they had, by whatever they thought is acceptable to print on the nutritional label and they got some value for serving size.
Re: The sugar conspiracy: sugar—not fat—is the greatest danger to our health
#10The major thing I took away from both the article and the comments originally submitted a few days ago is that nutrition science is too hard to create a one-size fits all guideline to what people should eat.
If we have to have a one-size fits all solution to nutrition however, my anecdotal guess is that the answer shouldn't be what we should eat but how much. Namely as long as people aren't over or under eating they should be fine.