RE: Sugar the real culprit?
April 15, 2016 at 12:31 pm
(This post was last modified: April 15, 2016 at 12:38 pm by mralstoner.)
Humans are primates, and our digestive system evolved from fruit eaters, seemingly. So, sugar in the form of wholefood fruit sugar, shouldn't be a problem.
But with sugars in liquid form, the glycemic index is very high, and might cause problems, because it's a sugar-bomb exploding in your system.
Also, your mouth wants to chew and suck the sugar out of fibre-rich foods. And in liquid form, you don't get that satisfaction from chewing, so you tend to drink and drink in vain, not getting the proper satisfaction from wholefoods. Hence you overdrink sugary drinks.
The moral is: whatever diet you eat, a wholefoods diet is the first easy step in fixing dietary problems. You can then quibble til the cows come home about which wholefoods are good or bad. That's a harder question to answer.
If I drink sugary drinks, or even fruit puree, I can wake up in the middle of the night sweating and shaking, because my body can't handle high glycemic foods. I think my body overshoots the insulin, and I get a hypo i.e. low blood sugar, ironically. But wholefood fruit is no problem.
But with sugars in liquid form, the glycemic index is very high, and might cause problems, because it's a sugar-bomb exploding in your system.
Also, your mouth wants to chew and suck the sugar out of fibre-rich foods. And in liquid form, you don't get that satisfaction from chewing, so you tend to drink and drink in vain, not getting the proper satisfaction from wholefoods. Hence you overdrink sugary drinks.
The moral is: whatever diet you eat, a wholefoods diet is the first easy step in fixing dietary problems. You can then quibble til the cows come home about which wholefoods are good or bad. That's a harder question to answer.
If I drink sugary drinks, or even fruit puree, I can wake up in the middle of the night sweating and shaking, because my body can't handle high glycemic foods. I think my body overshoots the insulin, and I get a hypo i.e. low blood sugar, ironically. But wholefood fruit is no problem.
