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Perhaps sugar is a better comparison. It's only in the past few centuries that most humans have had access to sugarcane, it's definitely not required for surviv
by xiaoma 11y ago
Perhaps sugar is a better comparison. It's only in the past few centuries that most humans have had access to sugarcane, it's definitely not required for survival and it's behind many many cases of fatty liver disease as well as diabetes, cancer and a host of issues stemming from metabolic disease.
- baldfat 11y agoRefined sugar is but almost everything we eat is sugar aka carbohydrates. Eating bread is the same as drink sugar to the body some would even say worst and we have been eating break since before written history. http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/is-it-really-worth-not-eating-bread-pasta-and-other-carbs/2015/02/06/cd6d1c38-89e2-11e4-a085-34e9b9f09a58_story.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/is-it-...
- xiaoma 11y agoThis is just batty. Bread doesn't taste at all like sugar does, it doesn't metabolize at the same rate, and to the best of my knowledge we aren't using it as an additive to flavor nearly every other food we eat.
- baldfat 11y agoScientifically speaking a atom is a atom. If you get so many atoms of the same type in your body it isn't batty it is just chemistry. https://www2.chemistry.msu.edu/faculty/reusch/VirtTxtJml/carbhyd.htm https://www2.chemistry.msu.edu/faculty/reusch/VirtTxtJml/car... Here is a anti-sugar post presenting the idea that 2 slices of bread has a HUGE impact on the body similar to soda. http://www.vanadia.com/stopbeingsweet/comments/soda-wheat-bread/ http://www.vanadia.com/stopbeingsweet/comments/soda-wheat-br...
- xiaoma 11y agoNice broscience[1]. Setting that to one side for the moment, do you actually claim that bread tastes anything like sugar or that it's used to flavor practically all other foods as sugar is? [1] http://www.aaccnet.org/publications/plexus/cfw/pastissues/2012/opendocuments/cfw-57-4-0177.pdf http://www.aaccnet.org/publications/plexus/cfw/pastissues/20...
- baldfat 11y agoNot Bro science If you have diabetes eating bread, sugar, pasta, or any other high carbohydrate food/drink raises your blood sugar. That is the issue is blood sugar levels in your body not what it starts out as. I down voted due to "Bro Science" remark that is something not for communication sake but to just make someone mad. Not a fan of that technique in communicating ideas or debating.
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- baldfat 11y agoRefined sugar is but almost everything we eat is sugar aka carbohydrates. Eating bread is the same as drink sugar to the body some would even say worst and we have been eating break since before written history. http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/is-it-really-worth-not-eating-bread-pasta-and-other-carbs/2015/02/06/cd6d1c38-89e2-11e4-a085-34e9b9f09a58_story.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/is-it-...