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If you're on a low carb diet, sugar can give you a headache so in that way it does feel toxic. But is that just because your body isn't use to it?
by appleshore 9y ago
If you're on a low carb diet, sugar can give you a headache so in that way it does feel toxic. But is that just because your body isn't use to it?
- tzs 9y agoFor the year to date, I've gotten 33% of my calories from carbs (and 25% from protein, 42% from fat). 23% of the carbs have been added sugars, or 7% of overall calories. I know that's not actually a low carb diet, at least by the standards most people use when they talk about low carb, but it is quite a bit lower in carbs than what the average American eats. I've been eating this way since September 2015, and even this moderate reduction in sugar has been enough to cause a change in how I react to sugar. I don't suffer any adverse reaction, such as headaches, if I have something high in sugar. Well, at least nothing I have ever noticed. What has changed is that I just don't find anything particularly attractive about high sugar foods any more. For example, if someone brings in donuts for the office and I eat one or two it tastes OK, but it is nothing special. It's not really a treat like it would have been a a few years ago. I will now almost always pick a salty snack like potato chips over a sugary snack.