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Re:Cutting Back Sugar Improves Obese Children's Health in Ju... by hammock on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @03:59PM (#10460673)
Someone else here (a medical doctor) has commented before along the lines of "It's OK for healthy people to eat sugar. It's when you're unhealthy (i.e. metabolic syndrome) that you should avoid it."

Well, how do you think the unhealthy people got that way in the first place? Yes, healthy people can deal with moderate or immoderate sugar intake better than people with metabolic syndrome. But at the margin you are probably degrading your health anyway.

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Re:Cutting Back Sugar Improves Obese Children's Health in Ju... by marcosdumay on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @04:26PM (#10460850)
People's bodies are not linear systems.

Eat too little carbohydrates, and you'll die. Eat too much, and you'll die. Your claim that any increase must lead to the same marginal results is absurd.

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Re:Cutting Back Sugar Improves Obese Children's Health in Ju... by CuriousSkeptic on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @04:52PM (#10461027)
Actually it's disputed wether carbs are needed at all. It might be possible to function on fat alone (for energy) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketosis
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Re:Cutting Back Sugar Improves Obese Children's Health in Ju... by frankc on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @04:48PM (#10461007)
This is not really the point of the thread and I know what you are trying to say but your example is bad. You don't need to eat any carbohydrates at all. Your body can manufacture enough glucose for your brain on its own.
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Re:Cutting Back Sugar Improves Obese Children's Health in Ju... by wagyu_doing on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @04:54PM (#10461044)
I have to contest the "eat too little and you'll die" statement. Human's can survive (and thrive) on zero carbohydrate diets. Gluconeogensis will provide any glucose the body requires.
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Re:Cutting Back Sugar Improves Obese Children's Health in Ju... by majkinetor on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @05:06PM (#10461130)
The bad effects of sugar on teeth are almost invariable. So even for healthy people there are downsides.

ALSO, the general effects of sugar on aging and immune system are not so good either in general.

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