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Re:Bacteria and Colon Cancer by blaser-waffle on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @04:23PM (#23921181)
We're eating wayyyy more carbs relative to our ancestors. Refined sugar is in everything.

I never thought about it until my wife measured a teaspoon of sugar -- it's 5g. Now when I look at things like protein bars or Starbucks drinks and see 35g sugar I do a spit-take.

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Re:Bacteria and Colon Cancer by jacobkania on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @04:39PM (#23921316)
Yeah I think most carbs that you’ll eat are pretty OK (grains), but just the volume of sugar in most things unreal.

The daily suggested limit of sugar is ~50g. Which is already a lot if you look at the volume of it all. But then consider a single can of soda is around that much. Bottles are around 75g. There are people who have 3+ sodas a day.

http://sugarstacks.com/

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Re:Bacteria and Colon Cancer by ssijak on Thursday July 23, 2020 @12:04AM (#23924079)
You missed the word "unprocessed" in my post that you replied to. Of course that the processed junk is not good. Nobody is saying that Starbucks "coffee" with ungodly amount of sugar or any similar thing is good for you.
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