sugar
by Christopher Blizzard
I’ve been posting recently about food and nutrition and I feel like the information in this video was a huge piece that I was missing.
In this video, Dr. Robert Lustig goes through the science behind how sugar and its component parts, glucose and fructose, are processed in the body and what that means for everything we know about the US’s (and the world’s, for that matter) ever growing waistline. This talk shows why all calories are not created equal.
Like many good things in this world, it’s a long story, packed with information so you will have to put aside time to absorb it. But it’s worth your time if you ever wanted to understand why sugar makes you feel the way that it does and why it specifically results in weight gain vs. other types of carbohydrates, fats or protein.
Watch it on YouTube if you don’t see a video above. Licensed as CC-BY-NC-ND.
Wow. That was a really interesting talk. Also, I’m now scared of all the food in my house.
You totally ruined Christmas by sharing this.
The instinct to shy away from processed foods is spot on. Always suspected it, but this is a good bunch of evidence to back it up.
On a different note, it’s amazing to see this in a free/open format. It looks damn good; the only issue I had was some de-syncing of the video and audio after it played for ~25+ minutes.
It’s nice that it’s got a CC license so it was OK to transcode.
But yeah, been reading about food a lot recently. I’ll post about that soon. (Read some books while I was on vacation!)
Thanks for the heads up!
This is serious. I informed my familiy and friends.
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I always knew drinking anything but water (and mlilk maybe) is not really a good idea, bu finally I know why (the juice was a surprise for me though).
The one thing I do not get though is whether fat is not bad or whether it is bad, but only as bad as sugar, the difference being everybody know fat is not good whereas sugar is GRAS.
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