Re:American toddlers are eating more sugar than the amount r...
by Filligree on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @07:48AM
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Fruits contain a lot of fruit sugar. If you're trying to avoid sugar entirely, they may not be the best choice.
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Re:American toddlers are eating more sugar than the amount r...
by akerro on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @08:04AM
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>Fruits contain a lot of fruit sugar
Vegetable contain a lot of sugar too, like the mention he ate a lot of carrots, he ate a lot of sugar, but that's naturally occurring sugar human body can process well, unlike tablespoon of sugar in a sausage made of processed meat.
Re:American toddlers are eating more sugar than the amount r...
by gameswithgo on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @08:24AM
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the sugar is the same in any case, but fiber may reduce how harmful it is, or at least slow down how fast you shove it in your face.
Re:American toddlers are eating more sugar than the amount r...
by slowburning on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @10:30AM
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The point you make is an important distinction. It's really effortless to put down 44oz of soda but very hard to eat the sugar equivalent of ~6lbs of carrots (even if you are juicing them 6lbs is a lot of carrot juice).
Re:American toddlers are eating more sugar than the amount r...
by pofilat on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @02:14PM
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There's an age at which drinking a sugary soda becomes difficult...
Re:American toddlers are eating more sugar than the amount r...
by andai on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @02:52PM
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Related, it was recently discovered that there is a limit to how much sugar you can (comfortably) consume, unless you are a child. In children there is no limit.
Re:American toddlers are eating more sugar than the amount r...
by pmiller2 on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @10:08PM
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Citation/link, please?
Re:American toddlers are eating more sugar than the amount r...
by andai on Saturday June 16, 2018 @05:14PM
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It was a while ago. I remember reading it on reddit, so I googled "no limit sugar children reddit", this is it!
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2011/09/26/140753048/ki...
Re:American toddlers are eating more sugar than the amount r...
by seandougall on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @10:30AM
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“Sugar” is a broad category of chemical compounds, each of which is metabolized differently. Even if they all had the same caloric density (which they don’t), that would give you a woefully incomplete picture of their effect on your health.
Re:American toddlers are eating more sugar than the amount r...
by watwut on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @11:35AM
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Vegetables contains much less sugar then fruits. You can get enough calories if you eat fruits alone, but you can't get all calories you need from vegetables alone.
Re:American toddlers are eating more sugar than the amount r...
by pofilat on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @02:14PM
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If you don't finish off that calorie budget with some protein and fat, you're in trouble.
Re:American toddlers are eating more sugar than the amount r...
by mbrameld on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @07:31PM
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Vegetables contain protein.
Re:American toddlers are eating more sugar than the amount r...
by astura on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @12:06PM
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They said they were trying to avoid "added sugar," not sugar entirely. It's pretty impossible to avoid sugar entirely unless you eat an extremely limited diet.
Re:American toddlers are eating more sugar than the amount r...
by woodandsteel on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @07:42PM
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I think the OP was referring to added sugars.