I havnt watched yet, but I read that researches found identical brain chemistry between crack smokers and people who eat sugar (everyone) Sugar is an addictive drug like anything that allows for instant satisfaction Sent from my LG-E739 using Grasscity Forum mobile app
it most certainly does. the reason it's OK to eat fruit is that fruit is large and mostly water/fiver. This slows the digestion of the sugar and also fills you up before you ccan ingest too much sugar. But its still the same sugar and you can eat too much fruit, especially of its dehydrated like rasins Sent from my LG-E739 using Grasscity Forum mobile app
it's a lot more complicated than that, i think. first there is a question of fructose, which is metabolized in the liver. then you have an always popular glycemic index... which deals with bool-level sugar. so there are claims of liver damage from high quantity of fructose... but those have to really really large. i don't think you could eat that much fruit. (sorry i don't remember specific numbers). then you have to consider GI.. which is questionable measurement at best. since other foods that you eat also affect your GI in other ways. it's very rare that you only eat an apple or 10 a day.
Its true that fructose is bad. But purified sugar was bad way before hfcs came oout. Didn't I mention that? If not my bad. The reason.fruit has a low gci isn't because the sugar is different. As I said in my.post, its inside the fruit which slows the digestion, which is why the gci is lower. You can still eat too much. Exactly Sent from my LG-E739 using Grasscity Forum mobile app
no no. i'm not talking about chemically derived HFCS.. i'm talking about fructose in fruits. there's nothing bad about it.
I'm sure if you extract pure fructose from fruit and flavor your drink with it, it will be bad Sent from my LG-E739 using Grasscity Forum mobile app
sorry, but not what i mean again... people often say that fruits aren't good for you because there is fructose and they are high on GI charts. but the way i see it, is that it's not accurate... partially for the reasons i stated above, but also because you get a full spectrum of nutrients when you eat fruit (not just an extracted fructose). of course extracted fructose alone will be horrible for you. doesn't matter where it comes from.