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Re:The Sugar Conspiracy by eli_gottlieb on Thursday April 07, 2016 @08:58AM (#11446839)
>But the problem to me is when people think chocolate bar, cake, pizza or milk shake.. these are food items with 75% calories from fat.

Those are all junk food. Use sparingly. Try eating a piece of fruit instead.

I mean, FFS, I really like chocolate, but of course it's unhealthy. Salads and fish are healthy. Everyone knows that.

Re:The Sugar Conspiracy by leshow on Thursday April 07, 2016 @11:18AM (#11447911)
nothing is inherently unhealthy or bad for you.

let's have an example, lets say you eat a balanced diet, plenty of fibre, micronutrients, protein, fats, and you have 300 calories left for the day before you go over your maintenance intake. you decide to eat a mars bar. unhealthy? not at all.

another example, you don't eat enough fibre, because all you eat is pizza pockets. you drink coke instead of water, you go over your maintenance intake by 500 calories and decide to have a mars bar. unhealthy? yes. but it wasn't the specific food that was unhealthy.

unfortunately things aren't as simplistic as you want them to be, you have to look at things in the context of the diet.

Re:The Sugar Conspiracy by pixl97 on Thursday April 07, 2016 @10:10AM (#11447362)
Modern fruit is junk food. It has a much larger sugar content than wild varieties of the same plant, and was purposely cultured that way because people like large sweet fruits.

Eat sparingly.

Re:The Sugar Conspiracy by eli_gottlieb on Thursday April 07, 2016 @03:23PM (#11449886)
Look, I'm pretty sure that if I want something sweet, fruit is better than cake. I'm also pretty sure that if I want to never, ever "sin" regarding diet, I will probably die, because some jerk is going to find something wrong with boiled greens and then I won't even be able to eat those anymore.

Balance.

Re:The Sugar Conspiracy by atomical on Thursday April 07, 2016 @12:24PM (#11448511)
I eat a lot of fruit. Sometimes I eat over 600 grams of carbohydrate a day.