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Watch the Fed Up documentary, how sugar is more addictive than cocaine in mice, how 80% of food products in US supermarkets have added sugar. Its nearly impossi

Watch the Fed Up documentary, how sugar is more addictive than cocaine in mice, how 80% of food products in US supermarkets have added sugar. Its nearly impossible trying to train yourself to moderate your sugar, its better to avoid it altogether as your body sugar level (GI) spikes causes withdrawal later. Our body does not need any refined sugar. Fruits are ok, avoid fruit juices as they often either have added or sugar or miss the fibre which helps your body slow down digestion.

VLM 7y ago
"how 80% of food products in US supermarkets have added sugar." The other 20% have added artificial sweeteners that taste awful. (edited to note I hate the taste and idea of products that are heavily marketed as "no added sugar" that are dosed with megatons of suralose or similar) You pretty much HAVE to go homemade paleo style food. Luckily that kind of food can be delicious and easy to make and cheap... A big salad with a modest side of meat, a stir fry made with a bag of frozen veggies and chopped meat, classic meat and veggies, meat and spices in a slow cooker, etc.
- slfnflctd 7y ago
  I have no problems with artificial sweeteners and have used them for over a decade (mostly in beverages). I believe it improved my health. Eating too much real sugar isn't even that enjoyable now, and usually makes me feel sick.
  - SketchySeaBeast 7y ago
    I recently reduced my pop to a friday afternoon one can treat, but before that I drank exclusively diet drinks - I got so used to it that drinking a full sugar coke was sickly sweet.
- sevensor 7y ago
  > meat and spices in a slow cooker I cannot overstate how much of a difference it makes to season your food with delicious spices. I think packaged food has so much sugar and salt in it partly because spices are comparatively expensive. If you cook your own food, I highly recommend herbs and spices! (Also some spices, like turmeric for instance, are reputed to have health benefits of their own.)
maxxxxx 7y ago
This is really infuriating. There is a ton of sugar in almost everything. Now they advertise Coke that has an obscene amount of cane sugar instead of an obscene amount of corn syrup as a health benefit. There has been a lot of talk about a code of ethics for developers. How about one for people working in the food industry? The people working in marketing and product development do truly damaging things to whole nations. They should be ashamed.
- SketchySeaBeast 7y ago
  The "code of ethics" is really committing to supplying the nutritional information and ingredients - it provides you what you need to make a decision as a consumer.
  - EForEndeavour 7y ago
    OP has a point, though: at its core, advertising is the practice of getting as close as legally possible to lying (either by omission or straight-up nonsense) without actually doing it.
    - SketchySeaBeast 7y ago
      That is true. It's intentionally trying to obfuscate the information.
    - maxxxxx 7y ago
      It's hacking of the human psyche with "dark patterns".

VLM 7y ago

"how 80% of food products in US supermarkets have added sugar." The other 20% have added artificial sweeteners that taste awful. (edited to note I hate the taste and idea of products that are heavily marketed as "no added sugar" that are dosed with megatons of suralose or similar) You pretty much HAVE to go homemade paleo style food. Luckily that kind of food can be delicious and easy to make and cheap... A big salad with a modest side of meat, a stir fry made with a bag of frozen veggies and chopped meat, classic meat and veggies, meat and spices in a slow cooker, etc.

slfnflctd 7y ago
I have no problems with artificial sweeteners and have used them for over a decade (mostly in beverages). I believe it improved my health. Eating too much real sugar isn't even that enjoyable now, and usually makes me feel sick.
- SketchySeaBeast 7y ago
  I recently reduced my pop to a friday afternoon one can treat, but before that I drank exclusively diet drinks - I got so used to it that drinking a full sugar coke was sickly sweet.
sevensor 7y ago
> meat and spices in a slow cooker I cannot overstate how much of a difference it makes to season your food with delicious spices. I think packaged food has so much sugar and salt in it partly because spices are comparatively expensive. If you cook your own food, I highly recommend herbs and spices! (Also some spices, like turmeric for instance, are reputed to have health benefits of their own.)

maxxxxx 7y ago

This is really infuriating. There is a ton of sugar in almost everything. Now they advertise Coke that has an obscene amount of cane sugar instead of an obscene amount of corn syrup as a health benefit. There has been a lot of talk about a code of ethics for developers. How about one for people working in the food industry? The people working in marketing and product development do truly damaging things to whole nations. They should be ashamed.

SketchySeaBeast 7y ago
The "code of ethics" is really committing to supplying the nutritional information and ingredients - it provides you what you need to make a decision as a consumer.
- EForEndeavour 7y ago
  OP has a point, though: at its core, advertising is the practice of getting as close as legally possible to lying (either by omission or straight-up nonsense) without actually doing it.
  - SketchySeaBeast 7y ago
    That is true. It's intentionally trying to obfuscate the information.
  - maxxxxx 7y ago
    It's hacking of the human psyche with "dark patterns".