American toddlers are eating more sugar than the amount recommended for adults

Re:American toddlers are eating more sugar than the amount r... by RobertRoberts on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @05:00AM (#17291761)

I did this back in 1995. I can count on one hand the times I've been sick since then, and every single time has been because I drank too much coffee, not enough water and didn't sleep properly or at all for days.

I do eat organic sugar and honey though, but because I don't eat any white/processed sugar (nor corn syrup) this automatically cuts out 95% (guess) of the bad food I would normally have been eating.

There's no one solution for "wellbeing" of course, but this sure is a big thing to change.

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Re:American toddlers are eating more sugar than the amount r... by seunosewa on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @08:24AM (#17292567)

‘Organic’ (brown) sugar and honey are mostly sugar with a little extra stuff.

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Re:American toddlers are eating more sugar than the amount r... by RobertRoberts on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @10:44AM (#17293696)

I've heard this many times, but my experience, and those of many others I've met or read about, is that there is a substantive difference between processed and non-processed sweeteners.

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Re:American toddlers are eating more sugar than the amount r... by astura on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @12:21PM (#17294799)

I make my own brown sugar at home, its white sugar + molasses. I don't know how you could consider it less "processed" than white sugar without molasses.

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Re:American toddlers are eating more sugar than the amount r... by RobertRoberts on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @09:00PM (#17299426)

Most people don't know that store bought brown sugar is actually just processed white sugar + molasses.

That is not my argument. I never said "brown sugar", I said "organic sugar", which includes the growing and any processing of the sugar. True brown sugar is something like succanat [0], and it doesn't look anything like what we normally consider "brown sugar".

[0] https://www.amazon.com/NOW-Foods-Sucanat-Organic-Sugar/dp/B0...

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Re:American toddlers are eating more sugar than the amount r... by seunosewa on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @03:34PM (#17306243)

What is the difference that you have experienced, precisely?

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