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Added sugar leads to overweight and obesity. But can’t you be healthy at any weight? Not every overweight human needs to lose weight. And it’s probably ok to ha

• kstrauser 3y ago
  > But can’t you be healthy at any weight? No. For an extreme case, it’s impossible to be healthy at 1,000 pounds. You will have diabetes. You will have wrecked joints. You will have dire circulatory issues. Those things are absolutely guaranteed. Your body can’t support being that size, or processing the amount of food required to become that size. You can be pretty healthy at the low end of the obese range. I could stand to lose a bit of weight, but also hit the gym and run frequently. My labs are just fine. You cannot be healthy at the extreme sizes. Everyone’s body would cross the line somewhere in the middle.
• ipaddr 3y ago
  Sugar comes from food, the rate we absorb sugar depends on the form. Saying that a balanced diet involves sugar is true but saying that we need it in a form that will overload the body is not true. This is not the part I would balance the diet on.