Sugar: The Bitter Truth

[CB]

An interesting lecture about fructose, it's history, and it's effects on nutrition, when you have the time to listen (there is not much reason to actually watch the video, as it's just a guy at a podium).


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM

[lordbean]

I listened to that and actually started freaking taking notes on my palm. This information is good shit - VERY enlightening in terms of what I should and should not have in my diet for long-term health.

Edit - wow. Upon thinking about it, I'm starting to wonder if I'm even sensitive to fat at all. I may simply react normally to it. In retrospect, I think I might actually be sensitive to Fructose - the indicator that always made me think I was sensitive to fat was peanut butter... but, there's corn syrup in it as a binding agent.

This would also explain why I can't eat maple syrup or corn syrup on pancakes without feeling sick. :hair:
This article has definitely tied some inconsistencies in my diet together. Fruit never sits 100% right, either. Bananas make me feel sick. Apples sit, but not normally - they make me feel weird. As a kid, I also used to put a thin coating of table sugar on toast w/ peanut butter - it tastes amazing, but I now know this is VERY unhealthy - also, when I think about it, I can eat more peanut butter plain than with sugar.

[Thrax]

Get natural peanut butter: Peanuts. Add light salt. Grind. Done.

[lordbean]

The thought actually had already occured to me of looking into the natural peanut butter products. The pieces fit together much more nicely if we assume my stomach hates fructose than if we assume my stomach hates fat.