> I dropped all forms of sugar and corn syrup a few months ago. [...]
> I eat bananas, apples, peanut butter and chicken. Learned to cook a few things.
It's not clear to me why sugar from an apple is better than sugar from soda. Can you explain or link to a source?
The obvious difference is that I can only eat so many apples; I've gotta eat three apples to get as much sugar as a soda pop (or a cup of apple juice, for that matter... apple juice has more sugar than soda pop.)
There is also a claim that the effort to digest an apple makes it a lot better for you than drinking the same amount of apple juice.
Dr Robert Lustig has also written and spoken extensively on the metabolic issues with refined carbs, but he's fine with fruit: https://www.amazon.com/Fat-Chance-Beating-Against-Processed/...
The whole "modern" food are optimized/stripped to only throw sugar at you. I had the same conclusion, most natural food I can't eat more than 3 of them: apples, oranges, even strawberries they're not just sugar, they have bits of sour, acid that balance the pleasing parts and makes you want to stop after a little.
When I was sick, apples were the only fruit I could eat that left me untouched, at that time even a minute amount of sugar would make me faint.
https://www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and-conditions/glyce...
I don't have a link to paste at the moment, but look into books by Gary Taubes for research and sources on this topic.