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Natural sugars have a completely different effect on your body than refined sugars, plus the fibre in the fruits digests the sugar slower

spzb 7y ago
a: [citation needed] and b: the article title and opening paragraphs specifically say she gave up sugar
- hombre_fatal 7y ago
  People almost always are referring to added sugar when they talk about dietary sugar. If anybody told me they were weening themselves off sugar, I would expect them to continue eating fruit unless stated otherwise. In fact I'd probably expect them to eat more of it as they're trying to make more healthy choices, and I wouldn't consider them inconsistent with their stated goals given what we tend to refer to when we say "sugar." I get HN/reddit's obsession with haha-gotcha snickering, but c'mon. Also, consider googling "sugar in fruit" to find info about fruit vs sugar: https://nutritionfacts.org/2016/08/09/what-about-all-the-sugar-in-fruit/ https://nutritionfacts.org/2016/08/09/what-about-all-the-sug... It's very interesting and surprising. For example: "Adding berries can actually blunt the insulin spike from high glycemic foods. For example, white bread creates a big insulin spike within two hours after eating it. Eat that same white bread with some berries, though, and we’re able to blunt the spike. So, even though we’ve effectively added more sugars in the form of berries, there’s less of an insulin spike, which has a variety of potential short and long-term benefits."
  - spzb 7y ago
    "When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less."
    - hombre_fatal 7y ago
      The usage doesn't seem very confusing to me. How are you going to understand and communicate with anyone if you don't know what they mean, refuse to understand, yet insist on something they didn't? And what's the upside to you beyond patting yourself on the back while missing the message? I can say that it certainly doesn't elevate the discourse on this forum.
timbit42 7y ago
I agree the effect is not entirely the same but it's definitely not completely different.
basch 7y ago
to be fair to the author she gave up fruit juice, which would be fruit sugar without fiber. So its some improvement, if fruit was substituted instead. Still a bad headline.

spzb 7y ago

a: [citation needed] and b: the article title and opening paragraphs specifically say she gave up sugar

hombre_fatal 7y ago
People almost always are referring to added sugar when they talk about dietary sugar. If anybody told me they were weening themselves off sugar, I would expect them to continue eating fruit unless stated otherwise. In fact I'd probably expect them to eat more of it as they're trying to make more healthy choices, and I wouldn't consider them inconsistent with their stated goals given what we tend to refer to when we say "sugar." I get HN/reddit's obsession with haha-gotcha snickering, but c'mon. Also, consider googling "sugar in fruit" to find info about fruit vs sugar: https://nutritionfacts.org/2016/08/09/what-about-all-the-sugar-in-fruit/ https://nutritionfacts.org/2016/08/09/what-about-all-the-sug... It's very interesting and surprising. For example: "Adding berries can actually blunt the insulin spike from high glycemic foods. For example, white bread creates a big insulin spike within two hours after eating it. Eat that same white bread with some berries, though, and we’re able to blunt the spike. So, even though we’ve effectively added more sugars in the form of berries, there’s less of an insulin spike, which has a variety of potential short and long-term benefits."
- spzb 7y ago
  "When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less."
  - hombre_fatal 7y ago
    The usage doesn't seem very confusing to me. How are you going to understand and communicate with anyone if you don't know what they mean, refuse to understand, yet insist on something they didn't? And what's the upside to you beyond patting yourself on the back while missing the message? I can say that it certainly doesn't elevate the discourse on this forum.

timbit42 7y ago

I agree the effect is not entirely the same but it's definitely not completely different.

basch 7y ago

to be fair to the author she gave up fruit juice, which would be fruit sugar without fiber. So its some improvement, if fruit was substituted instead. Still a bad headline.