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Sugar isn't poison. Blood-sugar spikes are poison. It's not a big deal to chug a bottle of Gatorade in the middle of a basketball game, your body uses that ener

Sugar isn't poison. Blood-sugar spikes are poison. It's not a big deal to chug a bottle of Gatorade in the middle of a basketball game, your body uses that energy right away. It is a big deal to chug a bottle of Gatorade while lounging in front of some screen when your body has nothing useful to do with all that sugar. Simple carbohydrates such as pasta and potatoes break down quickly and can also cause one's blood-sugar to spike.

tsco77 3y ago
White pasta has one of the best insulin indexes of common foods. They're complex, not simple. Common misconception.
- mrangle 3y ago
  True. Over time, I noticed less undesirable weight fluctuation and even weight loss when eating pasta. Also, it felt like a light meal. The trick is to not eat pasta with bread. Many people forget about the bread that they commonly combine with pasta and then blame the bloating and weight gain on the pasta that they had. I'd imagine that cutting out red sauce, which commonly has added sucrose, would be better still. Pasta is unique in that it seems to be beneficial, in terms of glycemic load, when eaten on its own. But combining it with other foods, but especially bread, may render it more taxing than other foods. Which is a common trait of food combinations.
  - tsco77 3y ago
    And wine to circle back to our topic at hand. But simple pasta and fish dishes appear quite often in the "blue zones" around the globe. Something I should do a better job of eating more of.
specialist 3y ago
Yes and: As you know, sucrose is composed of glucose (good) and fructose (bad). As I understand it, fruit has fiber which protects the body from fructose (blocks metabolism), and we still benefit from the glucose. I still add sugar and honey and other sweets to my drink and food. Cuz I'm a fiend. But I do now try very hard to avoid straight fructose.

tsco77 3y ago

White pasta has one of the best insulin indexes of common foods. They're complex, not simple. Common misconception.

mrangle 3y ago
True. Over time, I noticed less undesirable weight fluctuation and even weight loss when eating pasta. Also, it felt like a light meal. The trick is to not eat pasta with bread. Many people forget about the bread that they commonly combine with pasta and then blame the bloating and weight gain on the pasta that they had. I'd imagine that cutting out red sauce, which commonly has added sucrose, would be better still. Pasta is unique in that it seems to be beneficial, in terms of glycemic load, when eaten on its own. But combining it with other foods, but especially bread, may render it more taxing than other foods. Which is a common trait of food combinations.
- tsco77 3y ago
  And wine to circle back to our topic at hand. But simple pasta and fish dishes appear quite often in the "blue zones" around the globe. Something I should do a better job of eating more of.

specialist 3y ago

Yes and: As you know, sucrose is composed of glucose (good) and fructose (bad). As I understand it, fruit has fiber which protects the body from fructose (blocks metabolism), and we still benefit from the glucose. I still add sugar and honey and other sweets to my drink and food. Cuz I'm a fiend. But I do now try very hard to avoid straight fructose.