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That's interesting. I regularly drink soft drinks, and written on the can is the government-mandated notice of how much of my "daily recommended intake" is in t

by ue_ 9y ago

That's interesting. I regularly drink soft drinks, and written on the can is the government-mandated notice of how much of my "daily recommended intake" is in the can. For sugar, it says 40%. How does that figure relate to your one-half teaspoon metric? Does it mean that one of the figures is wrong?

yazaddaruvala 9y ago
Disclaimer: I do not know what I'm talking about. Assuming both numbers are accurate (I haven't double checked any of the numbers above), the discrepancy could be with time. Your body doesn't just have sugar in its blood. It uses it. At any given moment "Average blood sugar" needs to be 5grams. However throughout the day your body burns up 97.5 grams (I.e. 39 grams is 40%).
Cerium 9y ago
Just an observation, but if a soda has 10 times more sugar than you need in your body, and it is about half the daily value of sugar you need, then I suppose it is a rate problem. Drinking a whole soda at once puts way too much sugar into your system, but it may be possible to drink a sip an hour.
- CuriousSkeptic 9y ago
  Only the glucose part of the sugar would end up in the blood stream though, the fructose part gets converted into liver fat directly. So you'd need to keep the time between sips long enough to start converting that liver fat into glucose, and that could take longer than a day.
autokad 9y ago
its a huge fallacy that the amount of food you ingest = the amount of food you absorb. we pee and poop out a lot of what we don't need. some of the stuff we sweat and even breath out (like alcohol). I wouldn't give much credence to someone putting up mathematical figures up like that. going to the first point, when I decide i want to loose weight, i start with increasing my daily fiber. that alone is often enough for me to loose a few pounds
abtinf 9y ago
Government recommended intakes are notoriously political and not science-based. The current World Health Organization recommendation is less than 6 teaspoons of sugar per day. One softdrink essentially hits that limit all in one shot. http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2015/sugar-guideline/en/ http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2015/sugar-guid...

by ue_ 9y ago

yazaddaruvala 9y ago

Disclaimer: I do not know what I'm talking about. Assuming both numbers are accurate (I haven't double checked any of the numbers above), the discrepancy could be with time. Your body doesn't just have sugar in its blood. It uses it. At any given moment "Average blood sugar" needs to be 5grams. However throughout the day your body burns up 97.5 grams (I.e. 39 grams is 40%).

Cerium 9y ago

Just an observation, but if a soda has 10 times more sugar than you need in your body, and it is about half the daily value of sugar you need, then I suppose it is a rate problem. Drinking a whole soda at once puts way too much sugar into your system, but it may be possible to drink a sip an hour.

CuriousSkeptic 9y ago
Only the glucose part of the sugar would end up in the blood stream though, the fructose part gets converted into liver fat directly. So you'd need to keep the time between sips long enough to start converting that liver fat into glucose, and that could take longer than a day.

autokad 9y ago

its a huge fallacy that the amount of food you ingest = the amount of food you absorb. we pee and poop out a lot of what we don't need. some of the stuff we sweat and even breath out (like alcohol). I wouldn't give much credence to someone putting up mathematical figures up like that. going to the first point, when I decide i want to loose weight, i start with increasing my daily fiber. that alone is often enough for me to loose a few pounds

abtinf 9y ago

Government recommended intakes are notoriously political and not science-based. The current World Health Organization recommendation is less than 6 teaspoons of sugar per day. One softdrink essentially hits that limit all in one shot. http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2015/sugar-guideline/en/ http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2015/sugar-guid...