Comments on: 5 Things They’re Not Telling You About Sugar

By: Rolcia

Rolcia — Tue, 30 Dec 2014 15:56:58 +0000

I’ve been struggling from an eating disorder for quite a long time; thankfully it has started to subside lately. I was bingeing mostly on nuts and fruits, not sweets. Food had to require little to no preparation and had to come in small pieces so I could tell myself “just five cashews more and I’m done”. My cure for binge eating was repairing my relationship with food, which means MODERATION and no strange dogmas.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 26 Dec 2014 23:25:15 +0000

Never argue with a fool, that would make 2 arguing together

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 20 Dec 2014 04:29:19 +0000

I’m not defending or supporting the article; however, HIDING food is a psychological issue.

By: Go Kaleo

Go Kaleo — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 23:56:02 +0000

It sounds like you’re asking me to diagnose your father. I of course can’t do that – I would defer to his medical team, who it sounds like are advising that sugar isn’t the issue.

By: Go Kaleo

Go Kaleo — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 23:55:13 +0000

You are right, in my haste I misread 8% fructose rather than 8% HFCS. I was looking at the actual study here: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0091305710000614

As I said before, it is interesting and I will be curious to see if it is generalizable to humans. The AHA statement indicates that the evidence on sugar and heart disease is insufficient to establish a causal relationship at this point.

By: Go Kaleo

Go Kaleo — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 23:49:24 +0000

Actually, the review on the human literature I linked looked at over a hundred studies to conclude there’s no evidence it is addictive. That’s more than a few, and it’s only one of the multiple studies I presented to support my points.

I assume that being an LPC, you know that anecdotes are not evidence.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 20:29:43 +0000

I’m an LPC who works with clients struggling from symptoms of binge eating disorder. I’ve never had a client tell me they binge on eggs, strawberries, or chicken…they binge on mostly high carbohydrate, high salt/high sugar foods. Clients who eliminate sugar stop bingeing. You can cite a few studies in defense of sugar but there is enough data on the gut-brain connection to show sugar hurts far more than it helps.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 16:57:14 +0000

Completely useless, that’s funny. The ice cream before bed, lattes and shakes were an example. They also add sugar to grapefruit, cereals, tomatoes, pancakes.

Tell me then, the first heart attack EVER in family history. My dad isn’t overweight, he’s active. If eating ice cream before bed and loading up on sugar as long he doesn’t have excess calories is a totally fine thing, tell me why they find more blockage every time he goes in?

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 16:53:14 +0000

From the summary, I didn’t get that the amounts were far higher than a human would consume. I just saw this, “he concentration of sugar in the sucrose solution was the same as is found in some commercial soft drinks, while the high-fructose corn syrup solution was half as concentrated as most sodas” Do you have more information?

By: Go Kaleo

Go Kaleo — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 16:51:42 +0000

Putting aside the fact that these are all anecdotes and therefore completely useless, ice cream before bed, coffee and a rare shake does not sound like an enormous amount of sugar.