GaryPDX: I'm 52 years old and I gave up white/processed sugar completely a couple years ago. I feel like I'm 25 years old. HUGE difference. It's addictive and you don't even know it until you ditch it. Ditch the bad sugar folks.

God, I'm agreeing with Gary.....seventh seal and all that happy crap. Processed sugar is bad for you. mmmkay? Eat more apples,dates and figs. Your pooper will thank you.

GaryPDX: I'm 52 years old and I gave up white/processed sugar completely a couple years ago. I feel like I'm 25 years old. HUGE difference. It's addictive and you don't even know it until you ditch it. Ditch the bad sugar folks.

Troof.

Honestly drop the fructose too. there is just no need for it.

I, too, find myself agreeing with Gary for the first time ever.

Sugar is a farking drug.

holy shiat, it's halloween, and I think we divided by zero for agreeing with Gary.
/I've had the most processed sugar in the last 48 hours than in the last 8 months.
//I helped a buddy move, he offered McD's, not like I could refuse, really, as he was in BFE phoenix.
///Does sugar no longer give you teh diabettus?

Unless you have the palate of a 6 year old, giving up candy and sugar water shouldn't be a big deal.

But, I want to be a burden on society.

GaryPDX: I'm 52 years old and I gave up white/processed sugar completely a couple years ago. I feel like I'm 25 years old. HUGE difference. It's addictive and you don't even know it until you ditch it. Ditch the bad sugar folks.

Preach it brother. I just turned 49, gave up processed sugar three years ago, I'm a totally different person ...

This day of all days. . ..

/fark science

Cythraul: Well, looks like I'm going to end up a cancer riddled skin bag.

I read that as skittles' bag.

Def Leppard has no comment.

oh, and fatness. eating lots of sugar can result in fatness..which should help with that sagging skin thing

GaryPDX: I'm 52 years old and I gave up white/processed sugar completely a couple years ago. I feel like I'm 25 years old. HUGE difference. It's addictive and you don't even know it until you ditch it. Ditch the bad sugar folks.

I started this about a month ago now, at least to the extent that I can reasonably control it. Felt like crap for the first couple days and the cravings were brutal, but now I don't really crave that stuff at all now. My pants, which would stay on fine without a belt will now fall off if not secured by a belt and I think I will be shopping for new ones soon because I moved the belt another notch tighter yesterday. My appetite has also gone way down, and my energy up. The only downside is that my wife is kind of irritated with me for being able to lose weight so easily.

For the most part this has really been little more than saying no to candy, ice cream, and sugar in my coffee (I already gave up soft drinks years ago). I'm sure I'm still getting some sugar and HFCS from other foods, but I figure that as long as I continue to pay attention and cut bad things out as I discover them I am doing OK. It's a process.

Cythraul:
What's the 'good sugar?' And is it five times as expensive as the 'bad sugar?'

The starch based variety like rice. The stuff that becomes glucose. Avoid sucrose and fructose. Whole fruit is the exception with fructose because of the fiber. But avoid fruit juice and sugary drinks most of all.

MaudlinMutantMollusk: This just in: Living has a 100% mortality rate

The All-Powerful Atheismo: MaudlinMutantMollusk: This just in: Living has a 100% mortality rate

The point isn't "live forever!" It's "don't suffer from preventable shiattiness while you're still alive."

rev. dave: Cythraul:
What's the 'good sugar?' And is it five times as expensive as the 'bad sugar?'

The starch based variety like rice. The stuff that becomes glucose. Avoid sucrose and fructose. Whole fruit is the exception with fructose because of the fiber. But avoid fruit juice and sugary drinks most of all.

Fruit juice is delicious. I refuse to believe that it can't be part of a healthy diet.

Listen and learn my brothers and sisters:

http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201104211000#disqus_thread

lohphat: rev. dave: But avoid fruit juice and sugary drinks most of all.

The problem is that HFCS is hidden everywhere -- even in bread and pretzels.

True. People need to read the labels and make their own food when possible.

lohphat: shanrick: Also HFCS is what's making the country into an obese diabetic slug.

Watch this: Sugar: The Bitter Truth ^

Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology, explores the damage caused by sugary foods. He argues that fructose (too much) and fiber (not enough) appear to be cornerstones of the obesity epidemic through their effects on insulin.

Thanks for the link, I'm about a third of the way through it.

Guess I picked the wrong day to give up snorting Pixy Stix....

Thanks a lot for TFA on Halloween, Subby. You got any toothbrushes to give us?

I'm not giving up chocolate, sorry. My preciouuusssss

The All-Powerful Atheismo,MaudlinMutantMollusk: This just in: Living has a 100% mortality rate

I didn't know the world died every year from 1992 to 1996. Thanks for that update.

cowgirl toffee: CORNHOLIO!

I knew you were from Lake Titicaca.

GaryPDX: I'm 52 years old and I gave up white/processed sugar completely a couple years ago. I feel like I'm 25 years old. HUGE difference. It's addictive and you don't even know it until you ditch it. Ditch the bad sugar folks.

Right there with you pal. I gave up that garbage two years ago. Food tastes better without it too. I don't miss it one bit.

Enemabag Jones: The All-Powerful Atheismo,MaudlinMutantMollusk: This just in: Living has a 100% mortality rate

I didn't know the world died every year from 1992 to 1996. Thanks for that update.

People got really melodramatic over that Seinfeld show.

/nttawt

There's no sugar in BACON!

except for maple syrup drenched BACON!


/BACON!

Cythraul: What's the 'good sugar?' And is it five times as expensive as the 'bad sugar?'

Complex carbs versus simple carbs. Simple carbs break down much more quickly, lead to a blood sugar spike that sets off the glucagoninsulin cycle, and leads to more fat production. If you take too much of it, it can have the damaging effects listed.

Simple carbs aren't bad. They have their place. They just need to be taken in moderation.

lohphat: jagec: I refuse to believe that it can't be part of a healthy diet.

You eat Apple Jacks and/or Lucky Charms don't you?

"It says it's healthy and part of a balanced breakfast on the box. It must be true!"

Whereas jumping on the latest health-fad-of-the-day is an informed and reasonable choice. So where are we now...fat is good again, ALL carbohydrates are bad (or was it "complex is still good"), cholesterol is back in, red meat is good again but only if it's organic...I can't keep track. I'll just keep on eating and drinking the way my hippie parents raised me.

Betcha I live longer than you do ;-)