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Things are not as simple as "don't eat sugar"
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Things are not as simple as "don't eat sugar"
I think most people with a nutritional chemistry background would agree, as well, most general medicine practitioners that eating less sugar is a proper direction for much of the population.
It really isn't. When we look at what obese people eat they aren't just eating too much sugar. They're eating too much of everything, including fat.
Cutting out the sugar would help (especially because it's often a pointless addition with a painless substitution eg soda to non-sugar soda), but it would not be enough.
This may not be as useful a replacement as we've always been lead to believe. There's recent research that suggests that the body is tricked into behaving as if the sugar substitutes are actually sugar[0], especially when considering abdominal obesity.
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[0] "Chronic Low-Calorie Sweetener Use and Risk of Abdominal Obesity among Older Adults: A Cohort Study" - http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
True; obese people aren't just eating too much sugar, but also fat (and protein), but the problem is still the sugar.
The sugar makes you hungry, making you able to eat more fat (which is highly calorie dense). If you cut the sugar (and other high GI/II carbs), you will eat a lot less of the rest.
Sure, the problem in calorie intake is the combination, but eating just fat and protein is fine, while eating only carbs and protein is definitely not.
Do you have any credible research on this? I'd be interested to read it.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24819342
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16129086
Low carb AND low fat https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3139783/
This paper is often quoted when talking about eating regularly vs rarely (IF), in which the subjects were given meals with 70/15/15 of carbs/protein/fat, in which regular eaters consumed less: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10578205
This is a paper on a similar trial with 60/14/26 and 49/25/26 macro comp instead, with opposite results (meaning you were full longer when eating less carbs): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4034047/
Things are really that easy. Sure there are many potential solutions, but that one definitely works.
Low fat cheese is also quite bad if you want to avoid sugar / carbs since adding / leaving in the carbs is pretty much the only way to produce a low fat cheese while keeping the same texture (you can increase the proteins but it will make it very stringy and or hard).