The more and more we learn about it, the more and more disturbing it is how aggressively we were in denial during the war on fat.
And we’ve done a complete 180 on health and wellness. Eggs are good now. Eat all you can.
Unfortunately, we didn’t change until we poisoned 75% of the adult population.
Get subsidies out of the food supply. Unless it’s broccoli. Then, that’s probably ok
Only in the sense that bad things happen to you if you consume too much. I don't like that label though, because if you follow that logic nearly everything is a poison (eg. water poisoning), which makes it useless as a label. A more accurate label would be something like "substance that we're likely to overconsume and cause harm, due to human psychology/physiology", but I guess that's not as attention grabbing as comparing it to rat poison or draino.
See also, the noncentral fallacy: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yCWPkLi8wJvewPbEp/the-noncen...
Not saying we should feed our kids endless sugar, however.
I absolutely can feel effects from large changed in sugar intake, but the tiny things parents thought were evidence of a sugar rush were ridiculous.
"Dr. Tamborlane, also from Yale, reported that children given sugar had higher levels of adrenaline."
I'm not an expert in human biology but doesn't adrenaline increase activity?
But toddlers can also be pretty wild with or without sugar. They sometimes get very excited when hungry, when tired, when woken from a nap, when lacking exercise, when frustrated, when separated from specific adults, when in conflict with other children, ...
Let's try to be more moderate, lest one day there is a ban on poor dihydrogen monoxide...
I always feel this is a gross oversimplification. There is nothing that isn't poision in sufficient quantities.
Sugar is put into everything. Cereal, sauces, drinks, bread, meat, salad dressing, mashed potatoes. If you try to eat without sugar for the first time in a while, you'll be in total shock by how bland things taste. And your body won't tolerate the change either.
We're signing ourselves up for diabetes, inflammation, brain disease, physiological and mental dysfunction, and a multitude of other disease states by continuing the status quo.
Sugar is poison by the sheer volume with which we consume it.
Source? If I'm understanding correctly you're saying that people experience physical withdraw symptoms for sugar?
Try cutting most of it for a month, been there, done that...
Eggs were ever considered unhealthy?
The fat isn't inherently bad, but there are tradeoffs that some people prefer.
Even people who have learned that sugar is poison often still believe there is something wrong with fat.
Eggs have plenty of cholesterol. But there is nothing wrong with dietary cholesterol. Your liver makes it for you all day long. Blood cholesterol measurements are about markers for circulatory disease that is not caused by cholesterol.
Don’t you remember the egg whites only phase?!
I challenge you to find any study which supports this conclusion that is not funded by egg industry.
I absolutely believe that sugar is the cigarette of our time. It’s just a lot harder to point out the deleterious effects on society. With cigarettes you can point to lung cancer and that’s all you need. Sugar causes varying harms, of varying degrees, so you can’t easily point to something to scare people, especially when obesity is normalized. On a societal level however, the price is clear.
Sugar must be regulated, taxed, and zero-calorie sweeteners encouraged as the default.
What about the idea that sweeteners cause insulin resistance? Is there any proper (not funded by the sugar industry) research either way?
Avoid things which... * contains more than 3 components which you can't understand. * your grandma doesn't recognise as food. * comes in a plastic cover and doesn't degrade for a long time.
I know this pretty much eliminates the entire super market but if you go through what I have you will rethink everything you put in your mouth.
The fat free craze then is what led to many more food items having added sugar then ever before. They took out the fat, and added more forms of sugar to more foods.
Demonizing one food type completely just because they've been mis-used by industry is rarely healthy. Focusing on demonizing sugar is repeating the cultural mistakes of the past. Focusing on whole foods would be a better way forward.