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Here's a link for a clip from the show, perhaps someone uploaded the show to Youtube, although due to copyright issues I doubt it, but I'll do a search and see if it's available anywhere.
Thank you Mike and Tired for the links! I'll check them out when I'm back this afternoon.
Typically, I subscribe to "everything in moderation" and that too much of anything can be bad for you. We've known for decades that too much sugar can be harmful: empty calories that lead to weight gain without beneficial nutrients (often displacing healthier foods in the diet); tooth decay which, in turn, can lead to heart disease; diabetes; it factors in attention and mood disorders; etc. You'd be hard pressed to find any western doctor, or eastern or other practitioner recommending that anyone ingest more sugar. In fact, I doubt any of them would even suggest that sugar in any amount is actually good for you or necessary. At most, they might say a little won't hurt you.
Like Tired, I've also heard people link too much sugar consumption to cancer before. In the past, this was only from 'alternative' practitioners - I'd never seen any hard science or sources more accepted as credible espousing that theory. My impression from the glimpse of the show that I did get, is that now there is hard science to support the theory that any amount of sugar - not just too much - can, essentially, feed cancer. As someone undergoing cancer treatment now, and someone who gets over half her calories from carbs and sugar, I'm interested to know more about the study(s).
Weather, I tend to agree with Tired's post to you. You seem to be guilty of the very thing you accuse the report producers of being - reactionary and uninformed. You might have a hard time keeping weight on but empty sugar calories still aren't the best way to do that. And as was pointed out, you don't need any refined sugar ever to survive - the brain and body can get all the glucose it needs from complex carbs (and even at that, it's a modest amount).
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I watched it last night also toosie. I contemplated giving up sugar...while I lit a cigarette...
Life is complicated.
Exactly, Glory! I just wanna know all sides and then decide for myself if I want to do anything about it - all about choices and informed decisions
I think this is the study you want, regarding cancer cell adaptation and insulin receptors.
The problem in my diet is not the obvious sugars, but the refined, phony sugar in almost everything in the grocery store. I can resist a cupcake or a soda. Soda, especially, just sets my throat on fire. But I probably eat four or five peanut butter sandwiches a week. That's refined sugar in both the peanut butter and the wheat bread. Not many of us have time for a proper diet, and the processed food industry knows it.
You can choose to buy whole grain (I mean seriously nutty grain) bread and natural peanut butter that is just blended up peanuts.
It's amazing how delicious that actually is.
I think with sugar, it's all about using it like any other drug. We don't advocate overdosing on alcohol. Or caffeine. Maybe a drink here and there. If you use a teaspoon of sugar here and there, I don't see how it's a problem. Now, if everything you put in your mouth is loaded with refined sugars/hfcs...there is gonna be a problem.
Many years ago I had a class where the instructor told us that sugar suppresses the immune system. He posited that that annual bout of colds and flu begins with the sugary candy at Halloween, then on through the pies, cakes and cookies of the November-December holiday season.
Here's a link to explain the link of sugar to immune system suppression, plus 3 other factors that may be involved.
Just for info, Oscar Mayer hot dogs are the only ones I know of that don't have sugar added. Thanks to the late Dr. Atkins for that tip.
Key word in that sentence is ADDED....
They sure as heck have sugar in them!
Oscar Meyer hot dogs *ugh* have corn syrup and High fructose corn syrup in them!
Plus, don't forget, their alleged "healthy" hot dogs (wow, what an oxymoron)
has evaporated cane juice, marketing speak for SUGAR.
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