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Refined sugar is fine when used in part to fuel physical activity. Though it's a complete disaster when consumed in excess when sedentary. 140 calories for a c
by smileypete 6y ago
Refined sugar is fine when used in part to fuel physical activity. Though it's a complete disaster when consumed in excess when sedentary.
140 calories for a can of Coke is pretty modest; I just ate a third of a lemon meringue containing 500 calories - most supermarket food is calorific muck, cheap to manufacture yet tasty enough.
- Nomentatus 6y agoThis is absolutely contrary to the evidence. Sucrose is rare in plants in nature (save in tiny quantities.) We aren't evolved to absorb it gradually, it just floods in to the bloodstream; it behaves very differently than either of it's components, or fructose or other vegetable and fruit sugars. It's so evolutionarily weird that even bacteria and fungi generally aren't able to eat it. Therefore, if you're on a FODMAP diet you are allowed to drink Mexican Coca-Cola (has sucrose) but not American Coca-Cola (has liquid invert sugar.) Sucrose won't cause SIBO yeast and bacteria growth because yeast and bacteria haven't evolved to cope with it either. Tests on athletes (some now decades old) show even moderate sucrose consumption reduces athletic performance and health.