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- I find anyone who buys into "sugar is toxic" is not very bright. All things are toxic if you have no control. Eating to much, drinking to much, running or exercising to much, sleeping to much is all toxic and will kill you. Moderation people. Stop the stupid no carb, no fat, no sugar diets. It will kill you too. Sugar isn't toxic. The person who can not stop eating sugar with everything is toxic. Living in fear about everything is a sad way to live.
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- It's crazy it has taken this long for this to come to the mainstream media. It makes me wonder what else we "need" to know in order to live healthy happy lives. I have switched to virtually no carbs and no sugars and haven't felt better. this blog http://www.fitbomb.com/p/why-i-eat-paleo.html was what changed my mind. The paleo diet took some getting used to but since switching to a fat-burning diet instead of a suger-based diet I feel like a million bucks, with energy galore and virtually no anxiety anymore! I get strange looks from some people but you can't deny the results.
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- It is interesting to me that people continue to say don't eat processed, refined... foods, and eat real organic, fresh foods. Besides fruits and uncooked vegetables does is really anything unprocessed? And even fruits are processed in your stomach. If you cut something into small pieces you process it. If you peel a fruit you process it. If you mix foods you are processing it with chemical reactions. If you cook foods it is definitely processed. Every single food out their comes from naturally occurring ingredients, before it was mixed stirred and cooked. I refrain from using the word processed, because all processing is is mixing, stirring, cutting and cooking.
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- This is nothing new, but new to mainstream media and thank you for trying to get the truth out. We should just think back to basics when it comes to food. If it's not real, don't eat it. Proceeded foods, fast foods, all contain not only more sugar, but other unhealthy additives. Follow the slow food movement (origins Italy) and the farmer to plate movement to get educated. A whole generation was raised on non-foods and I'm sure some children don't know what a strawberry is, but knows what a gummy bear!
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- Ok sugar is bad what is the best healthy sweetner and how come producers aren't offering the healthy alternative?
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- when I was 16 an at 240lbs an endocrinologist told me that I was on my way to being type 2 diabetic, that my body did not handle sugar and converted it straight to fat. my diet consisted of Coke (reg) and gummy candies along with any other food I wanted to eat. I went on a diabetic diet and cut almost all "white" sugars out, and ate meat and vegies. I lost 90 lbs with mild exercise. At 29 and 165lbs I wish I could tell my story an let young children understand what it means to be healthy, effects of the extra weight on the body and how much better they would feel if they didn't eat junk all the time. I also think parents should not keep "junk" in their home and let it be a special treat.
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- It all goes back to this- Eat as many whole, "un"processed, "un"fortified, "un"enhanched,'"un"adulterated and "un"treated foods as possible.
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- Interesting, reading the comments of people who think sugar is just in candy. There is as much sugar in a serving of "healthy" breakfast cereal as in a candy bar. Coming from Europe to the US, it's very clear that nearly every prepared food in the US has a slightly sweeter taste.
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- Elaine Gottschall was a biochemist who tested tons of foods for their starch/sugar levels decades ago to help people who had fibromyalgia, arthritis, crohn's, celiac, autism, autoimmune, etc. Her book is Breaking the Vicious Cycle and if you search for pecanbread.com you'll find her "legal foods" list based on whether the food tested safe as a single highly digestable sugar. This is an incredibly well known and popular diet protocol. Then there's Dr. McBride's GAPS concept on gaps.me which grew from Elaine Gottschall's work and is mainly targeted at autism, epileptics, patients with bipolar/anxiety/depression, and heart patients (Put your heart in your mouth is her new text). Then if you go back before either of these ladies, Weston Price, a dentist, published findings from around 1915 on how all this sugar is responsible for tooth decay and it's profiled in Cure Tooth Decay written by R. Nagel. He discusses the need for grass fed beef and lamb, free range chickens eating what God made them to eat, cod liver oil, good fats, broths, fermenting, etc. all outlined in Nourishing Traditions a book which you can get on amazon or you can go to westonaprice.org . Mr. Weston Price's research which was shoved so far under the rug, I didn't think medical science would ever pull it out. He was preaching way back then that metals did not belong in the mouth and it should be no surprise that his colleagues pushed him out and formed a new dental assoc to get rid of him and his research! ;-) Sugar in all it's double forms is detrimental to health. I am glad to see that medical science is finally catching up. Now if we can get the toxic load of chemicals, pesticides & metals out of our lives, our modified food (AKA corn, soy, wheat and milk), our water and our healthcare, AND stop blaming bacteria and genetics for all our woes, we might have a chance of beating the big health threats of our day ;-) My family has been on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet by pecanbread for five years and we never get sick! I cannot go on how many various ailments were eradicated by following this no double sugars protocol-zero joint pain, hair growing back on balding heads, skin plump and shiny, pink fingernails, growing and focused kids, sound sleeping, resurrected energy levels, no sugar spikes or drops, normalized digestion, zero reflux, and clear rash free eczema free skin! It makes it very hard to watch the culture around us knowing it is all preventable and without a single prescription!
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- I watched Lustig's "Bitter Truth" lecture last year, then decided to go sugar-free for the summer as an experiment. I lost additional weight, but more importantly, I was able to eliminate all gout medication and all gout symptoms after suffering with it for over 10 years.
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