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The general health limit for sugar for a person is approximately one small can of Coke per day or less, with no other added sugar anywhere your diet at all. Tha
by floatingatoll 5y ago
The general health limit for sugar for a person is approximately one small can of Coke per day or less, with no other added sugar anywhere your diet at all. That’s two or three tablespoons of honey or HFCS.
Replacing HFCS with honey is probably technically better for you, but chances are, if you’re an American, your consumption is probably way beyond that limit, and changing out HFCS for honey or sugar won’t make anywhere near enough of a difference to matter.
Avoiding HFCS is good practice for avoiding sugar, but ultimately you should just focus on limiting added sugar at this point and not worry so much about what kind it is. (Especially if you live in America, where the bread on a Subway footlong sandwich has a third of your daily sugar limit in it.)
ps. Fruit juice should be considered water with added sugar, for the purposes of avoiding sugar. Whole fruit is fine enough, since your body knows how to handle overeating fruit.
- rubicon33 5y ago> The general health limit for sugar for a person is approximately one small can of Coke per day or less What about if you are, like most people are, also eating carbohydrates? How does the quantity of carbs being consumed affect this limit of sugar?
- floatingatoll 5y agoIf you’re asking “can I have more sugar if I eat less bread?”, no, that’s not really how this works. Eat more whole fruit instead. ed: If you're asking "do I have to stop eating carbs", they're releasing these guidelines for normal people on a normal diet that includes carbs. If, instead, you eat an American diet, solve the sugar problem first and worry about the rest once you're past the withdrawal symptoms. You'll have to change your diet enough to avoid the sugar anyways and no point in making that extra-difficult.
- sfblah 5y agoWhat are the withdrawal symptoms?
- mcdevilkiller 5y agoAn insane craving for sugary things. It happened to me with "sodas" which was the only high-sugar thing I was taking.
- floatingatoll 5y agoIrritability, headaches (if you were heavily dosing caffeine through soda and don’t replace it somehow), broken hunger sense and unconscious foraging (“wait, why am I looking in the fridge, I just ate an entire meal”).
- wrycoder 5y agoIf you mean sucrose, say that instead of “sugar”. The article is about the increased absorption of fructose, not glucose.
- gillytech 5y agoSucrose is 50% fructose and 50% glucose. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sucrose https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sucrose
- wrycoder 5y agoExactly.
- ncmncm 5y agoI.e., the glucose is negligible from a public health standpoint, relatively: what matters is the fructose. Honey is no different from HFCS or sucrose, from that same place: it, also, has no fiber.
- strken 5y agoIs there any reason to think absorbing lots of simple glucose or sucrose through your stomach lining is much better than than absorbing lots of fructose? A quick google suggests fructose tends to end up as visceral fat while glucose does the normal glucose thing and causes an insulin spike then ends up as glycogen, but it's not clear to me that either of them are very good compared to getting your glucose slowly from complex carbohydrates.
- floatingatoll 5y agoWell, the study suggests that fructose screws with your intestines in a way that promotes obesity, that glucose does not. Slow glucose is fine except when it isn’t fast enough, so there are definitely circumstances to consider like hard mental or physical labor. I wouldn’t recommend zeroing out all sugars and switching purely to bread. Fruit has been cultivated for thousand of years. It’s generally good for us; yes, it has some fructose; eat whole fruit anyways.