My personal research into sugar consumption

[Stanley Rockafella]

i believe I have found a positive correlation between sugar consumption and cold and flu season.

As someone who hasnt' had a cold or flu since 2008 (also the same time I started natural bodybuilding), i always knew my workouts and diet (lots of fresh veggies and fruits with a dash of meat every once in a while and NEVER going "light" on my dairy products) seems to have worked well.

Oh and for dairy stuff, it's full fat or nothing...cheeses, milk, yogurt, etc. are all full of fat and taste GREAT with no sugar or fake sweeteners added. No need for fruit flavoring either (let's be honest, there's no real fruit in there anyway...it's mostly sugar).

Over the past year i've been really slacking on my workouts...only going once or twice a week at times. I've kept up the lack of sugar and processed grains and remarkably I've been able to keep healthy. Even my body weight has remained consistant at 150.

So back to sugar. It's the devil's tool at ensuring we as a society will remain sick, our teeth will decay nicely, we will all develop diabetes in our lifetimes, as well as a plethora of other damaging sicknesses that are associated to sugar consumption as well as others that are considered to be a "natural part of aging". Tho no doctor with conventional training would be willing to admit this.

Funny how all of our holidays are surrounded by sugar. It's all that we crave because it's all around us. We've been socialized to consume these things are part of the holidays (i.e. chocolates and candies on valentines day, pumpkin pie on thanksgiving, sugar cookies on christmas..etc.). And by not consuming them makes you are a grinch! Oh and dont' forget those beverages both with and without alcohol (egg nog, hot chocolate etc).

At my workplace its' funny seeing what everyone uses to feel better once they are sick. Watching them swill down cans of "ginger ale", and tea sweetened with heavy doses of honey. And don't forget a few digestive cookies for good measure...ugh, I could go on, but I won't

Here's some links supporting my theory. This first one is my fave as I often have found myself having to pretend to be sick just to take sick days away from work. Not that I feel sick, but I never use the darn things that are allocated to me!

http://www.everydayhealth.com/columns/my-health-story/year-of-no-sugar-one-family-grand-adventure/

and a few others for your reading enjoyment

http://www.katequitsugar.com/10-other-benefits-of-quitting-sugar/

http://www.sugarfreelikeme.com/p/benefits-of-going-sugar-free.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jj-virgin/gluten_b_1834836.html

Hopefully this info will help some of you with your new years resolutions

[flyboyx]

damn, when i first read the title, i thouht to myself: another goddam spam thread.

another possiblity might be that around the holidays, you are around lots of family members and other people thus increasing your risk of exposure

[phreshkid]

I was eating a Twinkie as I opened this thread.

Now I feel like I'm going to die.

Thanks a lot OP.

[LivingLegend06]

I love sugar and all things chocolaty and sweet. I also very rarely get sick. Using this hard evidence that I have painstakingly gathered I believe sugar is the cure to everything from obesity and diabetes to the common cold.

Seriously though, just take everything in moderation. I think its a little ridiculous how people target one food group and the cause of everyone health problems.

[ELVA164]

I'm diabetic and this thread is relevant to my interests.

[Stanley Rockafella]

another possiblity might be that around the holidays, you are around lots of family members and other people thus increasing your risk of exposure

I like how you think

I also think that the bodies natural immune system should be able to naturally fight against these things, allowing you to skip getting sick.

during this time of year, I do feel a little run down at times especially with everyone coughing and sneezing at work. To remedy that i do the easy stuff like take a nap right after work and drink lots of warm water. After a good 8 hours of rest I feel like I never missed a beat.

A little background on me. I was an obese kid with constant illnesses growing up. Even into university I always had ear infections and colds and flu's that seemed to go on forever. I'm really surprised that i didnt' develop any diseases from the highly processed foods I was regularly consuming. I suppose I would have ended up like my older bro with type 2 diabetes, but I guess as some say since my one grandmother had it, it's hereditary :roll:

I was eating a Twinkie as I opened this thread.

Now I feel like I'm going to die.

Thanks a lot OP.

Lol dont' feel bad. so many do the same, but that's kinda the problem

[Todd Black 88]

Well, I guess this is better than a "no fap 2015" thread......but just barely.

[Red_liner740]

correlation does not imply causation.

I dont get sick, as in, havent gotten a flu or took a day off work for being sick in years. I dont necessarily eat healthy and i enjoy my sweets probably way too much.

Sugar definitively causes issues, but to link you stopping eating sugar and linking it to your lack of getting sick WHILE exercising regularly, and eating healthy at the same time and yet not contributing any of those things to you not getting sick lately is actually disturbing in your lack of critical thinking.

Besides, primary sweeteners used today in processed food is not sugar derived from Sugar Cane, but high fructose corn syrup which is 10x worse than sugar cane derived stuff. Reason for use? Cost.

The problem with nutritional labels is that they simply label ALL sugars as sugars....So if that orange had a nutritional label you'd be shocked to realize just how much "sugar" it contains it. Worse yet, Orange juice has sugars added but the sugar content on the nutritional label does not distingquish between the "good" natural occurring sugar and the added sweetener.

[mrsleeve]

I nearly never get sick and eat lots of sugars, I dont think your correlation = causation, I think its you generally healty diet full of veggies and what not. I eat a TON of veggies in general as well... I also spend the lions share of my time outside and not in cliamte controled areas full of other sick fucking people circulating their germ spwan all over the place.

Also rarely wash my hands before eating. Small germ exposures are good it lets your imune system learn how to fight it.


All this said, when I do get sick its a fucking nightmare

[cale]

I get a chuckle at websites telling me to eat less sugar and eat more fruit, were these written by someone's grandmother with no understanding of nutrition? Next you're going to tell me the wonders that "natural" sugar has over refined sugars. Fruits are packed full of sugar, with the difference of refined and natural being a few less vitamins and slightly different ratios of glucose and fructose. The body reacts differently to fruits because of the additional nutrition in them, but the sugar is still sugar. If you ate nothing but grapes to get 3-400grams of carbs a day you'd be getting it from 255-340 grams of sugar. The people who think this somehow translates to healthy and laughably ignorant.

[phreshkid]

Well, I guess this is better than a "no fap 2015" thread......but just barely.

I resent this comment

[cale]

correlation does not imply causation.

I dont get sick, as in, havent gotten a flu or took a day off work for being sick in years. I dont necessarily eat healthy and i enjoy my sweets probably way too much.

Sugar definitively causes issues, but to link you stopping eating sugar and linking it to your lack of getting sick WHILE exercising regularly, and eating healthy at the same time and yet not contributing any of those things to you not getting sick lately is actually disturbing in your lack of critical thinking.

Besides, primary sweeteners used today in processed food is not sugar derived from Sugar Cane, but high fructose corn syrup which is 10x worse than sugar cane derived stuff. Reason for use? Cost.

The problem with nutritional labels is that they simply label ALL sugars as sugars....So if that orange had a nutritional label you'd be shocked to realize just how much "sugar" it contains it. Worse yet, Orange juice has sugars added but the sugar content on the nutritional label does not distingquish between the "good" natural occurring sugar and the added sweetener.

Able to substantiate the claim in bold? This is a number you pulled out of your ass and isn't remotely true. The health risks of HFCS are greatly exaggerated, the final form used to sweeten things like Coke is actually very similar to table sugar. It's forms of with extremely high fructose that the liver is hit hard from but those are used far less frequently and in much smaller quantities.

HFCS consists of 24% water and the rest sugars. The most widely used varieties of HFCS are: HFCS 55 (mostly used in soft drinks), approximately 55% fructose and 42% glucose; and HFCS 42 (used in beverages, processed foods, cereals, and baked goods), approximately 42% fructose and 53% glucose.[6][7] HFCS-90, approximately 90% fructose and 10% glucose, is used in small quantities for specialty applications[8] but primarily is used to blend with HFCS 42 to make HFCS 55 (see below).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_fructose_corn_syrup

[ak-]

You should be eating your vegetables and fruit, not your fruits and vegetables!

I'm diabetic and this thread is relevant to my interests.

High five. T1 reporting for duty.

[FLYNAVY]

Not exactly the same subject, but my wife's close friend from her college days recently married a professor who primarily works in cancer research. Over some beers and a fire pit after the wedding party, I asked him about sugar intake, cancer, and such......as I had always been under the popular conception/misconception that there was correlation between the two. He said emphatically that there was not. Same thing for processed foods with a lot of additives. Very contrary to much of the media and documentary info presented out there. And I actually don't really have any interest in sugary foods, other than beer. I'm not saying it doesn't have detrimental effects, and of course that is only one guy's perspective as well, but as someone who doesn't have the craving in any shape or form, I'd still argue that maybe it isn't as bad as the rap it has been given lately.

Like anything, my belief is that moderation and balance in a diet is the key. But probably more than that, I think genes and environmental factors have a bigger part in things. We all probably know the 90+ year old who spent the last 50 years drinking and eating steaks daily.

[ELVA164]

You should be eating your vegetables and fruit, not your fruits and vegetables!



High five. T1 reporting for duty.

:ST1G:

How's your A1C bruh?