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tl;dr Yes

by ckelly 10y ago

tl;dr Yes

kurttheviking 10y ago
Seems to be a rare instance that violates Betteridge's Law.
- iopq 10y ago
  It's not true, sugar is not worse for you than white bread. White bread has a higher glycemic index than sugar. Sugar does have a lot of fructose in it, but fruits have higher fructose content because they have less glucose. Reality, turns out, is more complicated than black and white.
  - kazinator 10y ago
    White bread is just syntactic sugar for simpler sugars, and destructures into them in your gut.
    - analog31 10y ago
      So far as i know, the same is true of sucrose. Only simple sugars pass into the bloodstream.
  - kurttheviking 10y ago
    Probably depends on your white bread. My understanding is that any glycemic delta in white bread is primarily a function of the fiber. White bread without fiber is, to a first approximation, sugar.
  - insulanian 10y ago
    > White bread has a higher glycemic index than sugar. Doesn't seem to be so: http://nutritiondata.self.com/topics/glycemic-index http://nutritiondata.self.com/topics/glycemic-index
    - iopq 10y ago
      Your link has bread at 70 and sugar at 68. QED
  - jstewartmobile 10y ago
    A lot of white bread has actual sugar or high-fructose corn syrup in it as an ingredient. How much of that is to start the yeast and how much is for taste varies by brand. Whole-grain/white can be misleading as far a sugar goes. I've had whole-grain brands that were so sweet that I couldn't stand to use them for sandwiches.
- alexc05 10y ago
  I believe I read a "study" recently where a news headline analysis found that roughly a third of question-headlines were "yes", the other two thirds? "No" and "Maybe" Turns out Betteridge's law is just something snarky Internet people say.
  - alexc05 10y ago
    For further reference (as it seems I've been downvoted possibly for my own snark on this one) - since I can no longer edit the original comment, here are some references This appears to be the one I recall: http://calmerthanyouare.org/2015/03/19/betteridges-law.html http://calmerthanyouare.org/2015/03/19/betteridges-law.html My numbers were off it's actually 46% "non-polar", 20% "yes", 16% "maybe" and, 15% no https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9232419 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9232419 Additionally there was a publication in a statistical journal which also discussed the "phenomenon" http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-016-2030-2 http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-016-2030-2 which also found that it wasn't a factual assertion (in academic papers). Anyways - if the downvote was for something other than my own snark I'd love to hear what it was. Apologies for coming off as a jerk.

tl;dr Yes

by ckelly 10y ago

tl;dr Yes

kurttheviking 10y ago

Seems to be a rare instance that violates Betteridge's Law.

iopq 10y ago
It's not true, sugar is not worse for you than white bread. White bread has a higher glycemic index than sugar. Sugar does have a lot of fructose in it, but fruits have higher fructose content because they have less glucose. Reality, turns out, is more complicated than black and white.
- kazinator 10y ago
  White bread is just syntactic sugar for simpler sugars, and destructures into them in your gut.
  - analog31 10y ago
    So far as i know, the same is true of sucrose. Only simple sugars pass into the bloodstream.
- kurttheviking 10y ago
  Probably depends on your white bread. My understanding is that any glycemic delta in white bread is primarily a function of the fiber. White bread without fiber is, to a first approximation, sugar.
- insulanian 10y ago
  > White bread has a higher glycemic index than sugar. Doesn't seem to be so: http://nutritiondata.self.com/topics/glycemic-index http://nutritiondata.self.com/topics/glycemic-index
  - iopq 10y ago
    Your link has bread at 70 and sugar at 68. QED
- jstewartmobile 10y ago
  A lot of white bread has actual sugar or high-fructose corn syrup in it as an ingredient. How much of that is to start the yeast and how much is for taste varies by brand. Whole-grain/white can be misleading as far a sugar goes. I've had whole-grain brands that were so sweet that I couldn't stand to use them for sandwiches.
alexc05 10y ago
I believe I read a "study" recently where a news headline analysis found that roughly a third of question-headlines were "yes", the other two thirds? "No" and "Maybe" Turns out Betteridge's law is just something snarky Internet people say.
- alexc05 10y ago
  For further reference (as it seems I've been downvoted possibly for my own snark on this one) - since I can no longer edit the original comment, here are some references This appears to be the one I recall: http://calmerthanyouare.org/2015/03/19/betteridges-law.html http://calmerthanyouare.org/2015/03/19/betteridges-law.html My numbers were off it's actually 46% "non-polar", 20% "yes", 16% "maybe" and, 15% no https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9232419 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9232419 Additionally there was a publication in a statistical journal which also discussed the "phenomenon" http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-016-2030-2 http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-016-2030-2 which also found that it wasn't a factual assertion (in academic papers). Anyways - if the downvote was for something other than my own snark I'd love to hear what it was. Apologies for coming off as a jerk.