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- Dietitians Mary Matone and Meredith Rofheart debunk 10 myths about sugar. They explain the importance of sugar in our diet, why sugar isn't addictive, and why honey and high-fructose corn syrup aren't better or worse than other added sugars. Instead, we should focus on how much we're consuming - less than 10% of our total daily calories should be coming from added sugars.
0:00 Intro
0:31 Sugar is bad for you
1:16 High-fructose corn syrup is the worst kind of sugar
2:08 Honey and agave are the healthiest alternatives to sugar
2:50 Sugar makes you hyper
3:35 You should cut all sugar from your diet
4:20 Artificial sweeteners are healthier than sugar
5:13 Sugar is only in sweet foods
5:49 Sugar is addictive
6:44 Sugar causes diabetes
7:28 People with diabetes can't eat sugar
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I like that they recognized the lack of access to healthy options and presented alternatives too. :)
It's a shame but it is quite common in the US.
Glad they addressed that
It is such a shame that property developers created shopping malls that charge so much rent that it's not viable to have a fruit or vegetable shop.
Walmart still sells chicken lean meat veggies and fruit doesn’t it . Y’all
need to learn how to cook is the real problem stop going to Chic Fil A like it’s healthy 😝
@@jl2280 Tell me you've never heard of a food desert without telling me you've never heard of a food desert.
Unfortunately, no; there is not equal access to fresh food everywhere in the US.
One thing of note is that even if sugar isn't as problematic as many people believe it is (and that's a big if), the sugar industry was also involved in many misleading campaigns to shift blame for the source of an unhealthy lifestyle.
This includes the "too much salt is bad for you" (true, but oversimplifies things), and the "low-fat= good" campaign, since sugar is added to replace the fats that were removed, and causes even more problems.
They also lobby to have the govt set the limit for daily intake higher than it should be.
@@AdarshKumar-nj7rp This is also true; the daily recommended limit for sugars in America is ludicrously high.
Western medicine takes a total pharm approach to health, I am a medical professional, not currently working. Due to family issues. MANY. THE diet we consume myself included is , as you stated correctly, in my opinion, the latest fad. Like eggs in the 90’s. Margarine and OMG EVERY LAB MADE OIL OF ANY TYPE. IS POISON.
@@TSWARD-xb9rk Honestly, odd as it may seem, I think the biggest thing America can do right now to reform dietary habits would be to remove the food lobbyists. Not going to happen, but a person can dream. *sigh*
Also, not even lab made oil, Canola oil is pretty bad for you too. And since it's made from corn (again), there's plenty of it in the market. Boy, those subsidized crops are doing work.
@@erwinlimawan3158 all lab made oil is horrible. Yes, most people do not even get the subsidy things. Crooked crooked crooked. Sigh #2
Does anyone else feel like this video was funded by the sugar industry?
"Sugar doesn't cause diabetes"
"Sugar isn't addictive"
"Sugar isn't bad for you"
"Honey and Agave aren't better alternatives"
Experts are really damned aren’t they?! I’d love to know where you go for your evidenced based information? What your statement neglects to acknowledge is that the basis of what they said is true and it’s based off evidence. Sure, it is good practice to be skeptical and to think about things, and then to properly facts check with other experts. But just because you don’t agree with what they are saying doesn’t make it any less true.
@@danib022 I'm not saying that the basis of their statements is false in any way. What they're saying is very correct. I'd argue their statements would even be common knowledge, and that's my point. They're taking the "everything in moderation" argument and trying to use it in a way which repairs the reputation of refined sugar. And they're choosing their words carefully.
Why even argue against the use of honey or agave if we agree that it's not doing any more harm or good than refined sugar? Why argue about the semantics of "sugar doesn't cause diabetes" when that's obviously true but it's equally obvious that it plays an enormous part in diabetes?
It's a sugar puff piece! What is the point of this video!?
Yes!
I Immediately recognized this as complete propaganda as well!
@@danib022 I don't see any evidence presented on this vid, including their other ones for keto diet. My background is in Biochemistry, I used to hold to similar beliefs, only to realize we have been so misled.
"Sugar is not addictive"
There is a reason why my weight-loss started, AFTER I stopped visiting my dietitian.
There's a reason it's in everything
Something is telling me you didn't follow your dieticians advice
@@reanukeeves2564 Well I am skeptic of many "advice" given by dietitians. I follow an OMAD+water fasting+LCHF diet, and it has given me the best results, resulting in a loss of 12kg, and has continued to reduce. When I first started, my dietitian was dead against such an extreme form of diet, who wanted me to follow a low fat, low cal, 6 small meal a day plan. I am glad, I stopped taking her advice.
@@respectfuldebates lol.. sounds sustainable.. not.
Its actually pretty simple as to why you've lost weight. Calorie deficit. It's just that simple. It really doesn't matter what "diet" you're on. If you eat a surplus of calorie maintenance, you'll gain weight. Eat a deficit, you'll lose weight. Eating once a day and deleting high calorie carbs and sugars like you've done has to have tremendously lowered your calorie intake, resulting in your weight loss. When you inevitably fail these crash diets, I recommend you begin counting the calories you consume, and find ways to create your version of recipes you love, with lower calorie ingredients. I've been doing it for years now and went from overweight to, not to toot my own horn, but a pretty impressive physique.
@@reanukeeves2564 A key difference between me and you might be the fact I started out as obese, and I am now overweight. The things that work for an overweight person need not work for people who are obese.
That being said, a calorie restriction diet is metaphorically like alcohol de addiction by sticking to just one peg a day. While technically it may work, practically impossible to achieve, especially for the obese. At the same time, fasting treats food like an addiction: its easier to completely avoid eating, than eating small amounts.
"The calorie in calorie out" theory is on a pretty thin ice. Weight-loss is more complicated than that.
It doesn't take into consideration:
1) our hormone levels, especially insulin
2) satiety
3) our psychology (cravings, comfort foods)
4) foods that cause inflammation, and water retention
Let me explain: Sugar is 337 calories per 100gm. Almonds is 579 calories for 100 gm. But if you eat just 10 gms of almonds you won't feel hungry at all, but eat that much sugar and you won't feel that you had anything substantial at all. Not to mention that if you are obese, a high sugar in diet causes inflammation.
The traditional calorie restriction diet does not acknowledge what food does to our brain, and how sugary foods trigger dopamine in our brains, which is why adherence levels in such diets is pretty low (ref: 10 to 20 percent ref: CALERIE phase 2 trial research)
I did calorie restriction diet and calorie counting until three years ago (for 4 years), when I finally gave up on it. The hardest part is crossing the weight-loss plateau. And each time, you get disheartened, you give up on trying and weight starts to climb back. As said before, you may be able to better stick to this diet, cause, as mentioned by yourself, you were not obese but just overweight.
People think that such a diet is not-sustainable. But once you become fat adapted, you no longer feel hungry at all. I no longer even think of lunches and breakfast. Even dinner is not obligatory for me. It is like you are being set free.
The problem with these types of discussions is that the term "sugar" can refer to different things in different contexts. In chemistry sugar mainly refers to all carbohydrates, be it monosaccharides (glucose, fructose and galactose), disaccharides (sucrose, maltose and lactose) or polysaccharides (starches, dextrins, cellulose). So, in that sense both table sugar and vegetables are "sugars". But we know that they are different. Table sugar is simple sugar but vegetables are complex sugars or complex carbohydrates which, yes, has the simple sugars but also fiber (polysaccharide) which makes their digestion processes (primarily in terms of time and load) very different.
But an even more important distinction to make is that between glucose and fructose. Both of them are monosaccharides and thus, "sugars" and in terms of their chemical composition are just isomers to each other. But they are VERY different. Fructose is almost twice as sweet as glucose. While glucose can be metabolized by every single cell in the human body fructose can only be metabolized by the liver. While glucose stimulates insulin on consumption, fructose does not. While glucose circulates in the blood, fructose does not. So, "blood sugar" means "blood glucose". Therefore, a tablespoon of table sugar and a tablespoon of glucose will not have the same effect on your blood sugar because they are chemically different things. Consequently, if we take rice and table sugar which have the same amount of "sugars" while rice is mostly glucose table sugar is sucrose (half glucose, half fructose). They are very different.
Say, you consume 120 calories of glucose or sucrose. In case of glucose 24 calories will go to the liver while the other 96 calories will go to the other parts of the body. From the same 120 calories of sucrose 72 calories (12 calories from the glucose part + all 60 calories of fructose) will hit the liver. Additionally, while glucose can be converted to glycogen for later use, fructose can't be. So, not only are we overloading one single organ at once we're also not giving it the chance to store it as a desirable back up source for carbs(glycogen) and forcing the liver to turn it into liver fat. Now, this will happen when you really overload it and that won't normally happen from fruits and vegetables. Because when you look at the fructose content of fruits and vegetables they are not nearly as high as that in processed foods where the sugar has been added in high quantities to make the foods more palatable, addictive and less satiating. Which makes you literally stuff all of that and still want more. This is mainly because of the sweetness of fructose and it being low satiating compared to glucose. This is exactly why our ancestors had so little access to fructose. Firstly, we don't need them at all (they are not an essential nutrient) and we should be having them in very low doses.
And in terms of diabetes (oh boy it's another long rabbit hole). But long story short, type 2 diabetes is the state when your body is so resistant to insulin that the pancreas is making every bit of insulin it can to keep the blood sugar down but it's still not enough. The most common treatment is to just inject more insulin. And what that does is it keeps the blood sugar in control for a while but the resistance soon catches up and now you need more insulin. Then you increase the dose and the resistance increases again. Rinse and repeat. The disease is not treated and it only gets worse. The cause of this wrong treatment to be the norm is trying to treat the symptom and not the disease. Blood sugar rising is only a symptom it's not the disease. The disease is insulin resistance. And that is multifactorial, Diet, sleep, exercise, genetics etc. However, currently, the diabetes epidemic is mainly being driven by processed foods and more specifically refined carbs. For glucose, it's obvious. Refined starches cause tremendous fluctuations in insulin levels and since it's less satiating than non-refined sources(vegetables, fruits) you eat a lot of it before you feel full. So, too much insulin production leads to acute hyperinsulinemia and when this happens every single day it becomes chronic and your body starts to get resistant. GTT tests won't show anything abnormal since blood glucose will be kept under control but your insulin is going out of whack. A proper kraft test can diagnose insulin resistance way before you get full blown diabetes. Now, fructose gets a free pass here since it doesn't make your body release insulin on consumption. So, it can't possibly cause insulin resistance. Or can it. You see even though fructose does not affect insulin levels in the short-term it does in the long term. Continuing from the previous discussion of how all of fructose goes to the liver and a lot of it (and you do eat a lot of it when you do) it will force your liver to turn it into fat through a process called de novo lipogenesis. When this keeps going on everyday your liver fills up, followed by the other parts of your viscera. It's called visceral fat. And visceral fat can directly cause insulin resistance as your body now releases extra insulin to help out the suffocating liver. And you know the rest.
So, the point is that in discussions about sugar the distinction between Glucose and Fructose is extremely significant. The distinction between the sources of sugar is also important but people usually talk about that. What they don't talk about is how different glucose and fructose are.
Very interesting explanation! Do you have any sources/ reading material about the effects of glucose and fructose on the body? I personally find it very interesting!
Also the mixing of vocab in science and everyday life is pretty annoying. I get confused by the distinction of carbohydrates and sugar all the time.:/
Thank you for this thorough explanation. The effects of over consumption of sugar are dire and cannot be overstated. I hate to see people diminishing the harmful effects. It takes an effort to change one’s eating habits and if people aren’t clearly informed and have a casual view that added sugar simply isn’t ideal they will continue to have more and more and more- and then wonder why they can’t control their health.
YES, A THAUSAND TIMES YES!
A few details I am not sure about as I haven't read about them but for the most part *SCREAMING FROM THE ROOFTOP YES!*
I am trying to not trust dietitians because I think they are educated and trained based on outdated information and sadly their knowledge and competence is not in-depth enough for them to realize some of this ingrained misinformation unless they take it upon themselves to dive into studies and really learn more in depth to counter the fallacies of the education they were given.
When these ladies said essentially it all turns into glucose in the end for energy... yes, but that us again different glucose. That is glucose bodies. And only a very small fraction of fructose even becomes thet, most is metabolized by the body the same way a toxin is. Not the same for dietary glucose, most of it is metabolized into those glucose bodies we have in our blood which provide energy.
And yeas our brains loves blood glucose and uses it as a main source of energy when it is present, however it can also use keton bodies i.e. what our body metabolizes healthy dietary fat into.
And yes carbohydrated are essential, but I heard for things other than energy, for which our bodies need only a small amount and produces it on its own. I haven't gone into any much depth into this one though.
However, I agree about the distinction between monosaccharides, diasaccharides and polysaccharides and the tricky business with their names. It makes me quite mad. It's so easy for sources of information to manipulate people while technically giving correct information.
You are absolutely right. And they discuss it in such a way that they seem uneducated and then their statements misleading. Take it from someone who has a refined sugar intolerance.
@@janek.3549 The Diabetes Code, by Jason Fung
I feel like they're intentionally arbitrarily choosing when to understand sugar as "glucose that your body breaks down food into" and "white sugar that has no nutritional benefit besides straight calories" and their choices sometimes misunderstand the heart behind the "myths." sugar is NOT just a basic molecule - that's just one of it's definitions. the type of definition they address isn't consistent across the myths they address. smh.
Exactly. Very intellectually obtuse. People are very aware that fruits and vegetables are a healthier form of sugar. The problem with the majority of people isn't their over intake of veg and fruit, its their over intake of refined and added sugar. Of course if you eat 1 half a teaspoon of added sugar daily you won't face any issues. The big problem is that the majority of people don't stop at that because added and refined sugar is almost in everything we eat and in high amounts. Eating two donuts can put you over the daily intake and many people don't stop at two.
YESSSS THANK YOU it is SO annoying that experts always go "but your body needs sugar blah blah blah" - YEAH WE KNOW THAT BY NOW, when we 'normal people' say "Sugar is bad", what we really mean is REFINED sugar, but we don't bother to mention that explicitly every time. I have NEVER heard anyone say "I'm gonna stop eating sugar from now on", and then proceeding to say "So no more fruit for me"! 🤦
100% agreed!
They should include the terms carbonhydrates and glucose in theirs explanations.
I agree that some of their responses were poorly worded. But in their defense, I think their goal was to combat many of the terrible misconceptions people have, which have led to all sorts of awful fad diets.
Like how I know far too many people who have tried the keto diet. (Or what they thought was the keto diet.) So they'd eat like a bacon cheeseburger (sans bun), but if I'd offer them some of my grapes, they'd be like, "Nah, I can't eat sugar. I'm doing keto."
"Sugar is not addictive."
"When you get a sugar crash you just need to eat more."
These are very questionable statements.
These are text book referencers at best that haven't examined the latest data. Would not take them seriously.
The second is not what they said. They basically described that when you eat primarily a simple sugar, your blood glucose will rise rapidly, leading to an insulin spike, which will thrn lead to your very quickly becoming hungry again.
@@jsun3117 please give us the "latest" studies that completely contradict the statements they actually made.
Whether sugar is addictive is a matter of definition, they chose to draw the line very strictly/clinically, and obviously sugar is not like opiods or alcohol. It was probably counter-productive for them to do so, presumably so they wouldn't have to water fown their statements, for entertainment purposes ("9 myths debunked, one depends on the definition" is just not as catchy)
That's exactly what I've been saying about heroine....
@@NicolaiCzempin sugar produces a dopamine spike wich can generate dependency.
Also carb witrhawal is a thing. People that have always been on a standard American diet and shift to low keto have a terrible withdrawal process. Flu like sympthoms that can last up to 3 weeks.
Sugar is not harmless.
And also the state that we need sugar is false. We don't need outside sugar. Gluconeogenesis its a thing
After being diagnosed with Type-2 diabetes I began researching about sugar and carbs. I found several doctors on You Tube who claim that sugar is a primary cause of metabolic disease and that Type 2 diabetes is reversible. For 6 months I eliminated all sugar possible from my diet. My blood sugar dropped from average 180 to 110, my A1c went from 7.5 to 6.2 and I lost 30 pounds. I also felt great. I reduced carbs but did not eliminate them. The body creates glucogen from fats and carbs so you can eliminate nearly all sugar from your diet and still maintain safe sugar levels as long as you are still eating carbs and (natural) fats. I did after a time start introducing more carbs back into my diet since I was still losing weight but I have to say that eliminating almost all sugar from my diet did me a lot more benefit than harm. There is also new research that, more and more is pointing to sugar as the primary fuel for cancers.
@@Kelly-pp1et Bull... since cutting sugar and carbs from my diet and eating MOSTLY meat and fats I have dropped 30 lbs and my A1C has dropped from 7.5 to 6.1. You a e full of crap.
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As my mother taught me many years ago: Everything in moderation. I use that in all aspects of life.
moderation in moderation? ;)
@@catherinen8547 good one ;)
How about a bit of cocaine in moderation?
Do you take heroin in moderation and throw yourself off a bridge once per year or so?
Some things aren't good, even if taken in a small dose
@@juanolotgn@Axel Dornelles i moderate my druguse to none at all 👍
Sugar is bad for you
Dieticians: no (but yes)
Dietitians * name is in the title
@@Marissatro1773 The spellings "dietitian" and "dietician"
As explained by the American Heritage and Merriam-Webster's dictionaries, the cause of the confusion is that the spelling with "-tian" is an irregular alteration of the ending "-cian", which is otherwise exclusively used to refer to specialists and practitioners of other professions.[9][10] These and other American dictionaries also list the spelling with "c" but list the spelling with "t" first because this spelling is more common in the United States. Nevertheless, the American publisher McGraw-Hill exclusively uses the spelling with "c" in the 2003 edition of the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms and the 2002 edition of the McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine.[11][12]
The spelling with "t" is the one preferred by the profession itself internationally,[13] but the spelling with "c" is used often enough in texts not written by members of the profession to be considered a valid variant by both American and British dictionaries. In fact, British dictionaries list the spelling with "c" first[14][15][16] and list the spelling with "t" as a variant. American dictionaries list the spelling with "t" first and the spelling with "c" as a variant.[9][17]
As explained in a 2010 newsletter of the International Confederation of Dietetic Associations:
The spelling of the term "dietitian" has been debated for a long time by dietitians. In the early 1960s dietetic associations, under the auspices of the International Committee of Dietetic Associations (ICDA), worked together to standardize information about dietitians under the International Standard Classification of Occupations. When the International Labour Office confirmed the dietetic profession's classification in 1967, it also adopted the spelling "dietitian" at the request of the international dietetic community. This information can be found in the documentation held by ICDA and by the International Labour Office (ILO).[13]
Fruits also have sugar in them which dietitian in the world would recommend you to quit fruits. I think the whole point is to quit bad sugars not to omit them as a whole seems pretty self explanatory to me 🤷
@@pragyathapa2134 if you want to lose weight, careful with fruits also, many dieticians will tell you that. I`f you have diabetes good luck eating a lot of fruits.
@@pragyathapa2134 that's why i said you have to be careful with fruits. if you are overweight, i would eat veggies, and cut most fruits, berries are good, don't raise glucose level much and hence doesn't make your body produce excess insulin
Based on the definiton of addiction that these two provided, cocaine isn't addictive, I've done it multiple times, (many many months apart) without any withdrawal effects and with no carving to get more of.
From my personal experience I would say that sugar is much more addictive then cocaine or any other drugs that I've tried and I've tried many.
If I see anything that's high in sugar it's only matter of time before I'll go and eat it.
I never get "tricked" into buying cocaine, but I've often gotten "tricked" into buying very sugary stuff.
**Added sugar is addictive but not sugar from whole sources.
Why would you think that your personal experience is anything but anecdotal evidence? If everyone could stop taking cocaine as easily as you, then there would be no problem. Cocaine is VERY addictive.
@@ProFow disagreed. fruits with a high sugar content definitely can give you sugar addiction
@@louleloup2607 harder to overeat on whole fruits because the water and fiber content is so high. If you eat half a watermelon or 10 bananas you're probably not gonna want to keep going back for more like with sugary snacks and processed foods. Fruit juice and fried fruits are a bit easier to overdo.
@@ProFow so, I guess is a different sugar or what? Sugar is sugar and is always addictive, in whole foods there is fiber that slow down absorption so there is no hype and is not that addictive but definitely it is the same, like having a slow release of cocaine, it will be less addictive than a macrodose.
I feel like they completely glossed over their own definition of addiction to say sugar isn't addictive. Anything that produces dopamine can be addictive. If you get pleasure from shopping then you begin using it as a coping method and it can become addictive. Which then leads me to believe that perhaps they are playing a bit fast and loose with their other terms.
They are dieticians - they only know what they were taught.
@Nicholas Time we'll they didn't even do that right as sugar is an addictive substance. There have been studies that show sugar is as addictive as cocaine.
The artificially sweeteners are designed to be addictive.
@@johneby6878 a lot of scientific studies are not true. Different scientists get different results on the same topic, have to pay attention to the research sampling and methods used
@@ima.m.1658 this isn't even close to a debate. Sugar has long been known to be addictive.
I think one of the big issues with this is that when a lot of people talk about "sugar," they mean added sugar or refined sugar. The experts here refer to the scientific concept of sugar, but sometimes switch it out with the colloquial concept. I assume that's a problem with editing, but it that some of the things they talk about are more confusing or not totally accurate
Yeah, I take issue with them saying sugar isn't bad. Technically true when referring to ALL sugar, but if you're referring instead to processed sugar like table sugar or high fructose corn syrup it is very bad. And they don't spend enough time clarifying that distinction
100% agree, far too reductive Also didn't mention the fact that sugar is added to almost everything produced in the US. Bread, pasta sauce, soups, etc. Good luck trying to go added sugar free.
Yes! I didn’t like the video because of that. Too often carbohydrates are confused with ‘sugar’ and even with ‘glucose’ when they’re different things. Most of the myths they debunk are built around *refined, added* sugar. Nobody thinks beans are going to make you diabetic!
Just listen to what they are saying. It is straight forward.
@@GreatWhiteElf they literally said that table sugar is not bad per se, and they gave an example when they were talking about "baking with honey".
Is sugar bad?
Experts: Yesn't
Sugar from Whole Foods is fine. Added sugar is not. Eating fruit is fine. Eating loads of processed sugary foods is not. That’s what they’re saying.
Because it is more complicated than everyone thinks. People just want a yes or no answer and that just isn't possible when referring to most nutrients. A lot of requirements are individualized and dependent on the person.
Lol!
About a year ago, I went into a Ketogenic/IF regime ( I am 58 years old), with special emphasis on cutting ALL refined sugars, high fructose fruits, and all vegetable omega 6 oils. I lost 65 pounds and I was able to lower my IC glucose index from 5.6 to 5.25. I was also able to normalize my liver AST/ALT count.
Wow. No sugar needed? But these girls in the video said I need sugar
@@Jdonovan2 IMAO no , sugars are not needed, not the refined, high fructose, corn starch ones. But, our bodies need glucose, carbohydrates for energy. There are better sources to get carbohydrates, healthier ones . You should know, even if you go “cero” sugars, our livers convert fats/proteins into glucose. This process is called gluconeogenesys
It is very likely that that was not primarily to doing keto/if, but due to the side effect of having a caloric deficit.
Are you planning to continue with your keto/if regimen for the rest of your life?
Because many of the "short term" (yes, one year is short-term) effects are lost as soon as people revert to their previous eating habits.
Did you do this on your own accord or did a physician or dietitian recommend it?
Either way, kudos on your achievement, and I hope that you have changed some habits for good.
Extreme measures such as "cutting out all x" are not at all necessary. It is absolutely fine to indulge in some candy or other highly processed food, _occasionally_.
Demonizing foods or food groups is counter-productive in the long run.
@@NicolaiCzempin Thank you for your reply, and to answer your question, yes i have decided to maintain this regime on a permanent basis, with a degree of eventual flexibility specifically during family gatherings which are very few and far apart. However I partially disagree with you on the topic of Keto/IF having s caloric restriction outcome only. imo sugars , refined sugars and “low fat” processed foods are the true culprits of storing excess fat and provoking insulin resistance. I have come to the conclusion that the food industry as it is today, is rather contributing to the deterioration of your health far beyond providing adequate nutrition , specially for folks my age. I do not believe in diets, I believe in a consistent nutritional regime.
They seem to be shills.
I have been doing Keto off and on for the last year and I am at my lowest weight since high school. Grad of 1995. I did stop keto just to test and went back to the "Standard American Diet" and felt like crap. Cutting out sugar was one of the best things I have done. When they state you have to have sugar for energy they are full of crap. I also cut out all processed foods and only eat foods that are 5 ingredients or less. I have plenty of energy and all my blood work comes back in great numbers. I have to disagree with a good portion of this video. But what I do is not for everyone but it does work for me.
Good to hear you have lost weight, tho I don't like ketogenic diet. It's hard to follow and quite expensive to follow the "clean" version with healthy fat such as avocado. I follow whole food plant based diet and it works great for me.
Also There's still no robust study can prove ketogenic diet is great for longevity so I will stick with what's already proven that worked.
If you are doing ketogenic but a dirty version consisting of saturated fat or eggs I recommend you to switch to plant based, both are proven to help losing weight but one takes a further step preventing heart diseases and cancers the two leading causes of death in affluent societies
@@lenguyenngoc479 That is awesome that a plant based diet works for you but I have tried the plant based way of eating and found for me it did not work as well. I eat grass fed meats and have healthy fats in my diet with a mix of some vegetables. I have found the less carbs I have, the better I feel and weight loss is better. But yes I agree that Keto is not for everyone and no you should not do it for very long periods of time. It does have it negative effects doing long term. When I do Keto it is only in 2 month terms. Then I go in to a low carb eating and have found that I can maintain weight if I don't go over 50 carbs per day with 3 meals a day doing an 16/8 fasting/eating window. While doing keto I do alternate day fasting and a 48 hour fast 1 time every month, during this on eating days I have 2 meals that day (sometimes 3 depending on how much I workout). Then 2 times a year I am doing a 72 hour fast. Which I am planning on doing in about two weeks from today. The health benefits from fasting is so great. But I know this is not for everyone as well. Every body is different and what works for one person may not work for someone else.
One thing is 100% certain: The body does NOT need refined sugar. At all. And a breakfast containing 10% refined sugar is a really bad idea.
@@jkwyuken5582 indeed I also felt better and I did some research it's a mechanism to make us more alert as we are starved of carbs. Loosing weight is good and you should do so. But pls consider it in the long term, almost all anti cancer and anti oxidant compound are found in plants. Fat is just one of the issues, many studies already confirmed cooking meat in any way always produce carcinogens. You can tank the carcinogens and reactive oxygen species by eating brocoli sprout and spices such as turmeric.
I believe the essence of the game is to live longer and healthier and if we follow such principle we will have to eat plant based like people in blue zones. It's better for the environment and cheap well for the animals also as vegans always claim
did u just eat junk food while on the SAD because that's what SAD is.
I cut out added and refined sugar from my diet 40 years ago. I no longer crave it. I get my sugar from whole foods that are not over prepared. I eat small meals frequently and avoid overeating in any given meal. This has helped me to keep my weight down and has helped me to maintain a regular sleep schedule.
WOW! THAT'S HONESTLY AWESOME AND INSPIRING
do you eat honey?
What sugar replacement do u use in baked goods and sweets?
@@Whitegrey1 just use calorie-free sweetener
@@Whitegrey1 try stevia
As someone who has struggled with sugar addiction, it is real. Mind you, this does not necessarily mean it is addictive to every person, like say heroin or cocaine would be (I’m not up on the latest science, so it may or may not be). But I would say from personal experience it is at least akin to alcohol, etc, or behavioral addictions like shopping or gambling, gaming, etc, which may be highly addictive to some people while others can enjoy them moderately. This becomes especially problematic in people with eating disorders too (which I also had) - as people aren’t generally bingeing on green beans and whole grains.
Yeah they're so weird with their definitions. "sugar causes dopamine and blood sugar spikes, which will cause you to crave it later. But technically it's not the sugar you're addicted to, it's the dopamine and high blood sugar." Why do I feel like they're being paid to have certain conclusions, and the only way for them to reach them is to use wacky semantics.
Let me just have a hit of my non-addictive herion. After all, it's the seratonin that's addictive, not the substance...
@@timothydavis2568 Absolutely. Right on!
Sugar is highly addictive. Let’s start from that. Good or bad it’s very addictive, you start eating a bit of eat and ending up on overeating it. So yes, sugar is bad. I would rather not have it in my diet.
Exactly, I would never even think 💭 to binge on fruits and vegetables. If so, I wouldn’t have an issue with food.
I always thought my body was broken genetically because I could keep weight off. I switched to clean keto- veggies, nuts, and some meat and now I’ve kept the weight off for over five years with no yo-yo. The problem with “ moderation is key” is that it requires a lot of effort and will power. Its easy to fall back into overeating it if you have had issues in the past. These dieticians are like that aunt or relative that just tells you to lose weight as a kid but also forces you to eat mountains of food that they just cooked.
Fructose can only be metabolized by the liver, so in large quantities (high fructose corn syrup) it's far worse than normal table sugar.
Normal table sugar is 50% fructose. High fructose corn syrup is 55% fructose. It's all bad.
@@kathleencardincpm4435 HFCS55 is 55%.. HFCS can range up to and past 65%. Though even at 65% it is not a huge difference.
Large quantities of anything is likely not healthy.
But agave is mostly fructose, so it much worse.
The difference between sugar and HFCS is miniscule. It is NOT "far worse". Besides the liver is easily capable of metabolizing fructose. It is NOT harmed when it is doing this. Fructose is NOT poison. Fatty liver disease is caused by eating too much FOOD, not just fructose.
"Sugar drains you" I agree...
Yes, sugar in the alleyway for $20
Now with inflation I’m not sure... maybe $27
Sugar gives you energy. Don't you know what endurance athletes eat when racing and training?
I cant handle this video Dr. Berry, hard to watch
@@donwinston Endurance athletes burn fat. NOT u genius. They are fat adapted. All sugar they eat is burned in minutes, the rest of energy comes from fat. And latest marathon athlete won championship purely on Keto.
LOL, didn't expect to see you here! 🤣
I’m a little confused why dietitians would be the people to discuss addiction. Studies done by neuroscientists show that refined sugar abuse causes very similar binge, withdrawal, and cravings to cocaine abuse. Meaning it meets all the criteria of addiction. Irritability, anxiety and depression are just some of the withdrawal symptoms.
Yeah
100 % agree
Addiction works via the dopamine system and they actually refer to this! They have made a total mess of this video but its probably because they are parroting what they have been told by the lobby-driven "education" system.
Source?
Literally this.
What I would prefer for these videos is if the experts rephrased the statements because they're typically so oversimplified that the answer is either "it depends" or you can answer it either way and you just pick one, technically correctly, but leaving enough room to dismiss the argument.
I completely agree. So many of these videos are really easy 'debunk' because they over simplify and leave out a lot of the nuance, or they end up pushing a bias that is not agreed upon by the entire profession- sometimes not even backed by science, just speculation and opinion. But they aren't absolutely wrong, just leaving out a lot.
@@ghostratsarah thats kinda how science is no? nothing is set in stone
And they use definitives which is not always true.
The problem is, they kinda have to dumb it all down for the smooth-brained who can't understand multisyllabic words.
@@ghostratsarah which ones? Yet to come across one that is as bad as that
If only the information in this video were true! Sorry guys, continuous research is saying sugar is bad for you. There are too many qualified medical specialists now saying the same thing. Would love to know the sponsorship behind videos like this.
3:52 wait.. where is the research that says ketosis increases inflammation and brain fog? I've heard from countless people who had the opposite results. And I definitely find energy levels more stable the less sugar I eat. Not on keto FTR. Just not aware of any evidence at all that there's a harmful effect below a certain level of sugar consumption. None. There _is_ research that indicates the human brain preferentially consumes ketones over glucose as well.
The American Academy of Nutrition is an Adventist organization. Think Kellogg and Post. The big, sugar filled food industry.
They control the studies. Get the results they want if you want funding. Harvard sold their scientific soul to the Adventist agenda over half a century ago.
The American Heart Association has been a front for the food industry since the 1940s. They also front for big pharma. They have an agenda and your health is not part of it.
Nutritional science is the joke of the science world for a reason. It is designed to increase the financial health of the processed food industry.
You should write a guide about how to misrepresent arguments. Every single one of your points has nothing to do with the argument you are trying to disprove.
I agree!
"the answer is no... (30 seconds later)
But actually yes"
What you said applies to virtually everything that claims to be a “fact check” or “debunk”. It often seems like a game they play to skew perception more than any actual attempt at getting to the truth.
You are a bozo. They are simply stating FACTS.
5:53 = Sugar is not addictive
3:35 = It is very hard to go off sugar.
Contradiction?
Our body stores energy as fat, not sugar. We can make glucose from fat or protein with gluconeogenenis. I run marathons and workout everyday in the gym without eating added sugar and with a maximum of 20g of net carbs (not including fiber). I wouldn’t say that I lack energy. It did however take me some time to get off the sugar addiction and mental need for sugar.
I think what she's trying to say is that it's not really an addiction if sugar is your body's main source of energy. Its like saying water is addictive when really you just need it to survive. But sure it can be used as an emotional release and become habit forming in that sense. But eating sugar is normal human function not an addiction. People say they're addicted to all sorts of things but it's an emotional thing not a physical withdrawal.
@@luwildy that’s a good point. I agree.
I was a fairly heavy drinker till i cut out sugar, then i realised it was carbs i was craving not alcohol. Sugar may not be physically addictive buts it’s definitely mentally addictive,
looking at the dietician's body, she definitely needs to reconsider her view on sugar.
@@XAE_A_Xii Spicy! Gottem!
I would have appreciated if they made a distinction between sugar and it’s components- glucose and fructose.
In a TED video about sugar they contradict them and highlight how sugar CAN cause withdrawal symptoms and how the craving can definitely be associated with addictive behaviour, kind of like caffeine. Mmmmh.
As someone who has an addiction to sugar. And who has had withdrawl from not eating sugar saying sugar is not addictibe is dangerous . I have friends who Where drug addicts are now afficted to sugar says it is very addictibe. Listen to us who ate suffering
Yes!
Correct. It is very addictive. You get similar withdrawal symptoms from nicotine and drugs after you quit added sugars. It is also habit forming. Quite shocked that they said it is not addictive.
@@OurLordandSaviorSigmar All refined products follow the same template, chewing coca leaves is a poor peons appetite suppressant - versus urban crack! Sugar is that crack,
Soda is sizzup and so on ..
Big Cereal Box Companies have lying ever since the mad Mr Kellogg (and his "anti Viagra" like ambitions)
The goal is get food so over-milled and refined it enters your bloodstream the fastest & with the biggest spike!
Diabetes Epidemic and Cov'd co-morbidities, anyone?
I feel you.. I struggle too
Compulsion and addiction are not the same things. Real withdrawal from advanced addiction to drugs or alcohol includes hallucinations, tremors, seizures, flat out death. THAT is withdrawal. Not getting moody or dizzy because you stopped eating cookies.
I think their whole argument about sugar not being addictive is: if sugar is really addictive why aren't we just eating spoonfuls of sugar and raiding the cupboard for the sugar bag. Instead we are eating chocolate bars and candy (mind u those have added addictive chemicals and flavours). If we ate other types of food with the sugary foods then we won't crave it.
But ppl do eat other food like salad and fish and still go back to eating another extra slice of cake. Maybe not the morbidly obese ppl but ppl with a normal BMI do. Salad and fish don't have the same high as a piece of cake.
Agreed. I think it's the sugar + fat combined and it's more filling for me than eating sugar alone. I have "sweet tooth" but I prefer chocolate over candy.
Actually I know someone who eats sugar by the spoonful 😅.
Actually it's because our palates aren't used to straight sugar, that wasn't how you got addicted. And I'm pretty sure it's far easier and enjoyable to drink a can of coke, than to eat 33 teaspoons of sugar. The same way alcohol comes in different forms. And frankly all the other things that can addict you.
When i was a little kid i’d eat straight sugar cubes and the little packets of sugar at restaurants lol, i’m probably an exception
@@augustoof13 While I didn’t do that, I liked to drink the tiny half and half containers at restaurants.
I just love how you managed to dodge the mountian of negative effects sugar will cause to insulin, hormones and function of the body. "It's not addictive", well it depends on your definition of an addiction. Its hillarious that you look up the words and dodge its meaning like that. Ketosis will clear the body of the sugar and carb addiction. The brain fog and negative effects is very much the same process for the body as when you quit smoking. It only lasts a few days.
Everything can be
you couldn't be more correct. Sugar is the root cause of metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes. These two nutritionists probably believe in the current, but highly antiquated government food pyramid. lol
well if you just use common sense its very clear that sugar is part of a balanced diet. you just have to stay away from/reduce processed foods in your diet.
Well these videos are made to be very shirt
Caveman diet ? "Paleo" ? Carcass chomping degenerates , psychos and hypocrites.Nothing burns in a body without liver and glycogen, simply : fats burns on the fire of sugars . Fundamental physiology. Everything else is unnatural
The one about cutting all sugar from the diet was clearly referring to added sugars, not cutting out all naturally present sugars in any food. Since there are naturally present sugars in so many foods, it was bizarre that they interpreted the question in the way they did
Yeah, they were so suspicious!
I'm 53, started OMAD 2016, started 3 to 20 day water fasting sessions in January 2019. until January 2020 I consumed sugars and carbs in my rare meals, then i stopped eating sugars and carbs completely, aside from 1 or two bottles of kombucha per month and maybe 10oz of black garlic, every 2-3 months. Six months later, July 2020, I realized all my problematic symptoms, disappeared. Now, I'm at 170lbs, down from 400lbs in 2009, 11% body fat, never hungry, eating at most once every 24 hours, water fasting the rest of the time, in fact I fasted about 70% of the days since January 2019.
All my 53 years of health problems and issues are completely gone. Feeling like a teenager, it's insane.
Absolutely NOT going back to sugar, life is to good to waste it on slowly dying.
I'm consuming more calories on my occasional meal than I ever ate in a day while obese. This drives my metabolism up like crazy, I'm always hot although not sweating like I used to, I sleep entire winter naked in open window.
My typical meal calories are coming from fatty fish such as wild caught salmon and sardines, duck eggs, my homemade mayonnaise(I'm using duck egg yolks and macadamia oil), I drink oils while fasting, which promotes further fat adaptation by forcing the cells of my entire body to manufacture more mitochondria, including the brain(which has had an amazing and completely unexpected effect), such as ghee, evoo, avocado oil, mct, c8.
Yeah I wouldn't listen to these experts
Eating once a day does not seem healthy at all.
@@johnstewart4044 Please learn about Autophagy.
Did u eat fruit?
@@xxxs8309 The only fruits that do not affect your liver and stop the autophagy are: coconuts, olives, avocado. I do not ever eat any other fruits since January 2019.
I wish they would have touched on the effects it has on the digestive tract, your microbiome and immune system, and yeast infections/candidiasis. Also xylitol as an alternative, since it is completely different from all of the others (it is the best, but causes intestinal upset if you eat too much, aren't used to it, or generally are intolerant to it. Usually you can build up a tolerance, but not always)
Just be sure to keep xylitol and anything with it away from pets-especially dogs- as it is toxic to them.
I use stevia as my main alternative. Erithryitol is also supposed to be okay.
@Winter Sprite definitely. I'm super careful to never spill any on the floor, and I don't make things with it that my animals would be attracted to. Xylitol is the healthiest for blood sugar, your microbiome, and especially your teeth. It can actually repair your enamel (as long as you have it) and is the best defense there is against cavities, beyond brushing.
Combine it with milk in your morning coffee and your teeth will stay strong and white. I never brush my teeth, my enamel is too soft for the abrasion, but I haven't had a cavity in over 10 years (back when I brushed daily, I had at least 3 new ones every 6 months) and my teeth are not un-sightly. Wouldn't say white, but they would be if I cut down on other staining foods. Went to the dentist for the first time in years, just a couple months ago, and he was convinced I brush daily and floss semi-regularly. He did not believe me when I told him I don't. I just pay attention to my diet, don't drink sugary drinks, and try to get in a decent amount of fiber that I have to chew, and encorpate tooth healing foods like xylitol and milk.
Despite sharing a similar name, every -itol that isn't xylitol is not healthy for your teeth or intestines (but is still better than glucose)
What I realized is that it is still better to not take any artificial sweetener, and instead switch to naturally occuring sugars such as fructose if you crave something sweet. Artificial sweeteners cause you to urinate more and get hungry faster thereby leading to weight gain.
@@OurLordandSaviorSigmar xylitol is different, it isn't anything like aspartame or sacchrin. It is naturally occurring, and healthier than every other source (in moderation and assuming you don't have an uncommon sensitivity, a gradually gained tolerance is needed to eat substantial amounts- unless you are using it with the intent to cure constipation).
The xylitol I get is sourced from corn, but it is found in many other plants.
It also has absolutely no link to weight gain or worsening related illnesses, the opposite is true. It has so many health benefits that it blows everything else out of the water.
I'd encourage you to do more research, if you're genuinely interested.
But I also don't recommend using it as a sugar 'substitute', it's its own ingredient. Pure basic white cane sugar is still my best friend, I have had the least issues with it compared to all others (putting xylitol aside)- doesn't as easily cause candida blooms or make my immune system flip out, or make me barf from horrible aftertaste.
I use Xylitol in my coffee and home made mints, that's about it. The only other situations I use sugar is when baking, sugar substituting can make things go horribly wrong, especially when I already can't use wheat and a handful of other taken for granted basics.
I am trying to find more ways to make it replace sugar, but the best I have gotten is to replace only a portion of the cane sugar- since xylitol has a slightly different taste and doesn't cook quite the same. My position on its ability to substitute may grow stronger, but I think I'll always err on the side of it being a good alternative with limitations. Like how coconut oil can be an alternative to butter but is not a complete substitute for it.
Yes, this is reading a little like propaganda
Lost me at 5:54, honestly this video is just supporting the status quo, we have too much research that shows sugar is addictive and added sugar is bad for us and reaching ketosis is better than having muffins and pancakes. We don't even need grains. It's the food industry that's given us these standards and it's the cause of our obesity problem.
Lost me way way before that.
Yeah they're full of shit
How about citing that "research" because nearly all cardiologists would advise against keto
@@reanukeeves2564
Which cardiologist?
@@mjjm8446 you really think there's any cardiologist that would agree with a high fat diet?
You can tell these nice ladies are honest and earnest, and completely lacking in even a basic understanding of human physiology...
Agreed Doctor. No mention of insulin resistance as the the cause of type 2 diabetes, which is caused by the high carbs and sugars. This is call the skin of the truth stuffed with a great big lie. Love your content btw.
You would think they would have at least known about gluconeogenesis or that you body also uses fatty acids for energy
I would an MD to be easily able to back up such a vague, blanket claim with something more concrete and not open the door for statements like "insulin resistance is caused by high carbs/sugars"
@@domega7392 insulin resistance is not the cause of t2d, but pretty much its definition.
The causes of type 2 diabetes (t2d) are not fully understood, but primary factors in the Western world are genetics, obesity and lack of exercise (as mentioned in the video).
If you eat a lot of sugar it is more likely that you will become obese, but you can "achieve" similar effects by consuming lots of fat. So it's not the carbs. You could also do it with proteins, but it is very difficult to overeat protein to similar degrees as the other macronutrients.
@@rumbecker5085 studies on keto diets have found that they are not more effective in the long run (longer than one or two years) than other forms of calorie restriction.
Didn't they even mention in the video what long-term drawbacks of some of the unbalanced diets are?
I cut out sugar in all forms completely and lost 38 kgs in 5 months, I'm now maintaining my weight at under 100 kgs and eat a little bit of fruit now. I don't feel any cravings for sugar at all.
Congrats! It’s sooo difficult and you did it!
I'm with you. Cut out sugar while still eating like a pig and lost 40 pounds in 4 months. These women must be funded by the sugar industry.
You probably cut out processing more than just sugar since sugar is in everything so by consequence you cut out processing agents.
the video says you were wrong, you need to go back to sugar lol
I am there with you.
I tell people to just remember that there are essential fats (oils) and essential amino acids (proteins). There aren't any essential sugars (carbs).
I think if it as "You need fats and proteins to survive, but you need the carbs in vegetables and fruits for proper nutrition".
Before we started processing sugars, people lived just fine. Some civilizations today still consume barely any sugar and survive fine.
I just avoided added sugar and lost 1/3 of my body weight and I feel great. My blood tests are ideal and my doctor is very impressed with my transformation. All of that weight loss with no change in activity, I am just as active as I was before.
There are some contradictions and inaccuracies in given arguments in this video.
Aside from that I’d like to hear their comments on Robert Lustig MD research and presentations that sugar consumption does correlate strongly with type 2 diabetes. While body weight is not a correlation at all. You can have type 2 diabetes being perfectly normal BMI and lifestyle.
Agreed, Dr. Lustig has an impressive body of work truly debunking nutritional myths.
100% agree 👍 was going to say the same! This video is hugely misleading and ambiguous
@@jiajinzhou5263 all these Expert videos on this channel are super vague and unsatisfying.
@@stevel2837 no, he really does not
Correlation is not causation
They keep repeating "Sugar is not bad for you and it is important for your diet", while meaning that CARBS are important, and also say "you should ideally eat very little added sugar", added sugar meaning actual sugar or what most of us will call sugar
I have hashimotos/hypothyroidism - cutting sugars to an absolute minimum did wonders for my joint pain and brain fog after years of wondering why I still feel like crap with an optimal medication range and all other variables checked (drink water, vitamins, etc). After a few weeks, my inflammation decreased, my constipation disappeared completely, my feet stopped hurting every morning when I got out of bed - it's been awesome! I also lost 10 lbs with the only lifestyle/diet change being removing sugar. I still have some whole fruit and I replace any sugar with erythritol/monk fruit which is super low on the glycemic index. Worth noting for anyone in the same boat.
I've cut nearly all sugar and complex carbs from my diet and dropped 13kg in 2mths. Feel great and reversed type 2 diabetes
Did you also cut out fruits?
What she said about long term ketosis, actually I experience the complete opposite of those
Every single thing they said about ketosis (and your body supposedly requiring sugar) is false. I'm not surprised though, as dietitians are typically the worst source of information. The doctor I worked 12 years for used to say if you want to kill your diabetic patients, send them to a dietitian.
Exactly. This video is nonsense. I've been on a ketogenic diet for 4 years now. I eat once a day and never have hunger pangs.
yes, thank you! My brainfog is way better and I don’t feel the need to change my diet, it works, and it worked in the stone age as well. This is just misinformed nonsense
Ive been in keto for 6 months, before i was exercising 12 hours a week and constantly up and down with blood sugar levels due to a high carb diet. Keto has been life changing, still exercising 12 hours a week but I NEVER get tired. I won’t ever go back to a high carb/sugar diet.
Yeah me too, these people are full of shit.
Everyone likes to talk about getting their sugar in the form of whole fruits but never recognizes that fruits have been very heavily selected for sweetness. There is a lot more sugar in the fruits in your local grocery store than our ancestors would have ever found growing in the wild.
I was thinking about the same thing .
So what. They still contain lots of fiber and water. There is no such thing as an unhealthy fruit. Almost no one can eat too much fruit.
@@donwinston Ignorance. There are most certainly unhealthy fruits (start with grapes) and you certainly can eat too much. Fruits are particularly heavy with fructose (AKA fruit sugar) especially modern fruits bred for sweetness. Fructose impacts metabolism at a cellular level and helps trigger hibernation in animals.
Fructose triggers fat storage, and chronic inflammation. Fructose is only metabolized in the liver and causes non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. Metabolic syndrome, a cluster of health issues like obesity, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, and high triglycerides, is associated with fructose consumption.
@@JDARJISJ good grief. You are nuts.
@@donwinston Not nuts, educated. Every problem I listed for fructose, and by extension fruit, is backed by academic research. If you can get over your desire to insult people who tell you something you don't want to believe and learn something, I suggest you start with Dr. Robert Lustig.
It’s as if this video was funded by the food industry. So many misconceptions!
I used to like the videos from this channel but now I will definitely be more careful on whether or not I believe what is being said.
not even mentioned natural sweeteners strangely.
yup
Not really misconceptions, it’s just really simple. Foods high in sugar are super easy to over eat. For example, 2 Oreos is 140 calories. A pound of strawberries is 145. You will feel full after a pound of strawberries. You will not feel full after 2 Oreos. Sugar itself isn’t the enemy, it is the amount of sugar you eat
@@tylerrose4416 This that you’ve just said is in fact real simple and true. They do say that in the video and that part is right.
I was referring to things like diabetics having to ingest sugar regularly, for instance. Only diabetics taking insulin or other hypoglycemiant drugs would have to do that.
@@tylerrose4416 it is lol, just google a bit more, and try no sugar for a time and you'll notice lel
The fact that they didn’t clearly define sugar before starting their loosely defined facts bothers me.
But I mean, sugar is a BROAD term. It is THE source of energy for life (at least on earth), and when you eat anything organic (as in from a living being, animals & plants) you will consume SUGAR. They do use some more specific terms in the video, like refined sugar, simple sugar, carbohydrates, artificial sweetener, etc. The MYTHS they are trying to debunk usually aren't that much specific either.
@@coolfer2 idk man sometimes it feels like they're talking about carbs, fructose, or other things not even actual sweet stuff, they said when you stop eating sugar you enter ketosis which is bs cuz you wouldn't have to be eating carbs as a whole for that
True, I think what they refer as sugar in this video is just anything that is composed of "saccharides". Which is actually a valid technical definition of "sugar", imo. Carbs, glucose, fructose, lactose, starch are all sugar under that definition. Artificial sweetener, on the other hand, is often not a real "sugar", in the sense that they aren't composed of saccharides.
@@DavidDurik If you stop eating any sugar to the point of being in a constant low blood sugar state. Your body WILL enter ketosis, no? Since there is no sugar, the body will start burning other stuff, namely fat and protein. When you start burning fat, you get ketone as the byproduct. You will probably be able to notice since your breath will start to smell weird. That's what I know, anyways.
@@coolfer2 well no, not really. it is true that when you have low blood sugar ur body starts using mainly fat as fuel, but we are talking about blood sugar, not regular sugar, carbs like bread, pasta or whatever else also raise your blood sugar, so does protein. you don't need to eat sugar to raise ur blood sugar
Took a look at the literature they were referencing on long-term damage caused by keto. It was done on the elderly, and the takeaway is that though it has a lot of benefits, it curbs appetite faster than other diets so the only risk is that they don't take in enough nutrients (though that can absolutely be done on that diet). It also calls out that there are NO long-term studies on the keto diet available yet. It does make sense though that they're avoid those findings if they're trying to make a video of "Sugar isn't really that bad" for sus reasons.
Certainly is Sus. Paid for by Big Sugar.
There is no long term because people would die of kidney failure 😂
@@sorrelsne Hahahaha - No
No Inuit ... Masai ... gauchos ... were killed during this lifelong diet.
@@elsagrace3893 Does high fructose corn syrup cause that highly unpleasant grating Vocal Fry?
Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
This episode really is
Dietics for Dum Dums
There's plenty of Big Ag promoting keto diets.
…And today’s video comes to you thanks to the American Sugar Producers 🤭🤭🤭🤭 this is the FDA dietary recommendations in the 70s ALL OVER AGAIN…
I think the main issue with sugar nowadays is that it's added into everything, so it's very difficult to track how much you're actually consuming and extremely easy to overdose. You also get used to sweetness, so your body will not inform you that the thing you're eating is overloaded with sugar. This is pretty easy to verify experimentally: Do your best to avoid any foods with high sugar content for a few weeks and see if you can still stomach eg. sodas afterwards. In my experience, they become downright disgusting once your body "resets" its taste for sweetness.
I don't think so. I once avoided sodas for a month and afterwards they did not taste any different to me. I didn't crave it as much but that was about it.
@@horacehalt4216 Did you still get sugars from other sources? I guess it might vary from person to person, but I definitely lowered my tolerance for sweetness *very* noticeably by cutting out sugary foods.
Sugar consumption has gone down since 1999 due to carbonated water, but the West has gotten fatter and fatter.
Wow, I lost 75 pounds on a keto diet and have kept it off for three years.....
Could have done the same thing on any diet. I hope you are not eating the cheese burger without the bun version of keto.
Fasting, or going into Ketosis, is a good thing. It's cell renewal, not cell damage.
It is the recurring switching between the ketones (fasted) and the glucose (fed) metabolism that is beneficial, not just the ketosis itself. The regeneration comes with refeeding, however, the preceding energy deficit is what it is triggered by.
And yes, intermittent ketosis triggered by an energy deficit, whether it is fasting, exercise, or (the most potent) fasted exercise, is indeed a good thing. Ketosis induced by a high-fat keto diet though is really questionable, especially if maintained long term.
If you are referring to autophagy - just exercise instead of restricting your diet - it has the same effect.
You are full of crap.
fasting does not mean going into ketosis
@@ki6i calorie restriction and fasting do not have the same autophagy levels, fasting is associated with longer lifespans
I have diabetes type 1 for about 23 years and i've never, ever, been said that it could be caused by "certain viruses"!
There definitely is a difference between real cane sugar and high fructose corn syrup.
If I drink a soda with high fructose corn syrup I can tell right away, I can feel it in my stomach.
If I drink a soda with real sugar my stomach feels fine
And even I, who have crude taste buds, can instantly taste the difference...Coke with cane sugar tastes so much better.
I'm going on 10 months of ketosis, mostly intermittent fasting, and currently OMAD. Decided to eat to live. Not live to eat. I'm confident that my body will make the sugar it requires.
Absolutely! I have never felt better and no carbs!
Same here!
Same here, everything listed about keto negatives is not true and in some cases the opposite. There are a massive amount of people that have cured type 2 diabetes from eating keto. There is no such thing as an essential carbohydrate. Our bodies can make all the sugar it needs.
@@macfulcher7857 but if they said that, you'd get healthier and wouldnt need to keep paying them
I totally have to disagree with sugar not being addictive 🤣 I get sick if I don't have added sugar 😅
You get “sick” bc your sugar is crashing not because you are addicted lol.
@@Marissatro1773 yeah I don't think needing to have a but load of ice cream, cookies and candy to feel better every day is normal. 🤣 anyone who doesn't think sugar is addictive doesn't understand neurology. It effects your brain similar to cocain. Its a dopamine response which is addictive. Therfor, sugar is addictive. 😅 my sister was an addict to drugs for years, doctors, therapist, etc agree that anything that can create a dopamine response can become addictive.
@A M yeah I am definitely trying. Im not doing cold terky though as that has just made the issue sprial alot for me. Im just trying harder to pay attention to ho much I eat and im very slowly lowering it. Especially because of how sick I feel if I didn't have enough that day 😅 im getting better about it though.
@A M yeah if anything I over eat. I have a lot of different medical issues. Plus I'm allergic to about 32 different fruits and vegetables. So that does not help my gut. 😅 ive been working with doctors for all my issues and they all agree im addicted to sugar. Which is why we are doing a super slow shift. Which seems to be working. I still very much have strong cravings, but im not getting as sick as I use to in the beginning.
Here’s the thing -
The idea isn’t that you eliminate all glucose, is that you get the sugar sugar out of your diet. You do this by eating 10 cups of greens 🥬 per day along with moderate amounts of protein. The are still items in your diet that break down to glucose in your diet (extra protein/amino acids and the minuscule amounts in vegetables like kale, broccoli, and avocado 🥑 etc.) but you want those carbs to be under 20 grams if you’re trying to lose weight. Under 50 grams just for a low carb diet. No one would argue that have a salmon fillet with 10 cups of salad 🥗 for dinner is unhealthy, but adding fruit to that doesn’t really make it healthier. Nor does a serving of whole wheat pasta. In fact, those items can be problematic because you are adding more glucose for the liver to break down.
I remained obese on vegetarian and vegan diets because I followed the food pyramid and listen to health professionals about what to eat. Eliminating sugar and carbs from the diet is a sound nutritional decision, and after a year of doing so, I lost 30 kg and reversed a number of diseases. Your body turns to fat for fuel in absence of glucose, and that’s what we want.
It's a bad idea to cut fruit from your diet because fruits contain antioxidants and vitamins and minerals and fiber. And not all fruits contain high amounts of sugar. You even just named avocado in your comment, and that is actually a fruit, not a vegetable. So if you were to cut all fruit out of your diet, that includes avocadoes and tomatoes. You can lose weight just by cutting all ADDED sugars from your diet. That's what I did and I lost weight.
@@nathanieljohnson5908 OK, so the main thing that you are disagreeing with me on is the definition of fruit. Yes, I know that avocados 🥑 and tomatoes 🍅 are fruits. I was going for the common understanding of fruit 🍌 🍎 🍉 rather the technical definition of fruit. The part of a plant with the seed is technically the fruit and includes zucchini, cucumber, and lemons - all food that I eat regularly. Main thing is to reduce sucrose and fructose (also lactose) as much as you can. Sweet fruit contains too much sugar (fructose) as do some vegetables like corn. Fructose is especially hard on your liver. That’s the main point I am trying to make.
@@mellamell7441 but with the fructose, you're also getting fiber, vitamins and minerals so it's a lot more healthy than eating chocolate cake or candy. That's the problem with cutting out fruit. Yes, you would be cutting out a lot of fructose, but you're also cutting out more fiber, vitamins and minerals. It would be much better to just cut out refined carbohydrates than cut out all fruit, which is nutrient dense.
@@mellamell7441 people really be cutting fruits in the name of cutting sugar.
And why would you want your body to regress into ketosis? Like maybe good for short term for someone very obese. But being in ketosis for a long period of time has negative effects on body. Just eat carbs like normal people after losing weight.
you guys briefly glossed over Ketosis and only spoke about the mild symptoms of the first few days of being without sugar. Being in Ketosis for a long period of time can be beneficial for you in alot of ways even though its not recommended to everyone it helps against diabetes, and people with uncontrolled epilepsy.
Purposely maintaining a state of ketosis for a long time is stupid.
@@donwinston Why is that?
@@SophiepTran Because you can't eat fruit, beans, potatoes, bread, pasta, rice, corn, and cereal. There is also reason to believe it will mess up your health because of hormones or something. But more importantly if you eat that much fat a big chunk of it is almost surely going to be saturated fat which is the primary cause of coronary heart disease and ischemic strokes which can kill you or at least maim you.
I think they’re downplaying a lot of the issues with sugar
the video is full of disinformation
@@Koi33. The video is full of half-trues and missing information. It would be accurate to say that potatoes are sugar, so I might be tempted to convince people that 100 calories from corn-syrup is the the same as 100 calories from potatoes (if I had money in the food industry).
That’s an understatement
I wonder who funds them hmmmm
Trying to remain non fat phobic.
According to these two, gambling also would not be addictive which we know is not true.
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I felt like they were defending sugar consumption a suspicious amount. Makes me wonder if this video was sponsored by a sugar company 🤔
True, Exactly what I wondering when watching the video, suspicious
I'll bet it was.
Experiment on yourself: Try giving up sugar (in ALL forms), see how easy it is to do. Most people won't make it three days, but if you do you'll be amazed at how great you'll start to feel on day four or five. LMK what happened.
I completely stopped consuming sugar for two years, and the results,
* My joint problems disappeared
* My teeth discoloring disappeared
* I felt home made traditional foods are very tastier
* I felt fruits are very sugary and tasty, which I never felt before.
* I felt sugar rich foods like pastries taste like chemical and didn't feel like eating
I feel like mainstream health advocates villainize sugar a suspicious amount so I think things are pretty fair and balanced
If it walks like it, and talks like it, it is.
Personally, I've found that cutting the sugar used in home made baking like banana bread or cookies by as much as 1/3 is nearly indistinguishable to the full sugar recepies. Give it a try the next time you bake at home (you will probably need more flour to replace the sugar so your batter isn't too runny)
I can try but I need to invite you over because I don't eat that kinda stuff myself 🙂
I've cut out all sugar/carbohydrates for months (zero carb) and I experienced enhanced clarity of mind and focus. Based on my own experience I wouldn't trust anything these two dietitians are saying. Cutting out sugar may or may not cause brain fog. You'll have to try for yourself to know what you will experience.
N = 1 > dietary advice
In My Opinion
Chew laboriously on a pithy sugar cane? .... maybe ok?
Eat refined sugar ......?
Just watched a doc of the rainforest Baka guy smoking out an African killer bees nest with a tiny smoking brand after climbing an incredibly tall tree and getting stung and waving his arms around and not falling to his death - all for a very rare fructose hit! - it seemed like the equivalent of walking on broken glass .... to me.
Kids have many more taste receptors than adults they even have them on the roof of their mouths, you cannot convince me that sugar isn't like crack - for kids - l actually remember how intense that sweet hit was, so they lost me on the no no no it's not an addiction, in a cross voice, lecture segment. Bah! Humbugs!
These "nutritionists" probably work for Domino sugar. They're pathetic.
Yep, I stopped all carbs and sugar in 2018. They mentioned that the body needs sugar, that’s why it makes it’s own. If not, I should be long dead:
@@stanrix You’re exactly right. Our bodies can make all the glucose needed from fat or protein. Fats and protein are essential for life, carbs are not.
When people say "sugar is bad for you" they do mean always only refined sugar, I've never meet anybody saying anything in this meaning about fruit and vegetables.
Exactly!
That statement made me not take the rest of the video or people seriously!
Then you've never met someone doing the keto diet. I know people who won't eat fruit because they think it's "too much sugar."
@@JP-ve7or Spikes your insulin. Not good for keto. Some fruit is okay but most isn't for keto.
All carbohydrate eventually become sugar/glucose, so a diabetic or somebody who is insulin resistant, or has hypoglycemia, should limit all sources of dietary carbohydrate. Let your body make all the glucose it needs via the process of gluconeogenesis
This really feels like semantics… I think when most people say sugar is bad for you they’re not talking about glucose, they’re talking about added sugars, which as they admit is bad for you and you should have no more than 6 tsp/day. Just a complication of “well, akshully…”
I would be throughly embarrassed if I was either of these “experts”.
not all addictions cause withdrawal - cocaine doesn't cause a withdrawal. Sugar is addictive as it reinforces the dopamine system. These two may be diet experts, but they are not addiction experts.
There is no evidence whatsoever that sugar is "addictive". Tasting good and addiction are two different things. No one is snorting confection ate sugar. No one is injecting maple syrup in their veins. Get real.
Dietitians have awful twisted understanding of long term effects of being in ketosis
It is a proven fact that ketones kill heart muscle. If you are silly enough to avoid carbohydrates to the point your blood is filled with ketones day after day year after year you are likely to get fibrosis of the heart. n this state it is unlikely your heart will function very well.
How can they argue sugar is not addictive, when someone eats a high carb diet and eats very frequently like 6 meals a day, they can have withdrawl symptoms when their bodies sense they need another sugar spike. They experience mood swings and low energy until their next insulin spike. That is like the definition of physical addiction.
I love that the CZcams commercial in front of this video (for me) was for Twix! 🤣 Keep up the amazing job YT!
Were they paid by the sugar industry? Like their so political.
There's nothing political about this at all.
Not directly paid for by them per say. But they pretty much are. Nutrition is a mess.
Table sugar is a fructose molecule bonded with a glucose molecule, of course pure fructose in corn syrup is worse. Holy shit.
Yeah, this video is the worst. Must be funded by the Food industrial complex.
This is incorrect.
In table sugar, the ratio of glucose to sugar is 50 : 50.
High fructose corn syrup still contains glucose; it is simply not bonded to the fructose like it is in table sugar. HFCS 55 (one of the most common form of high fructose corn syrup) only has a very slightly higher level of fructose than table sugar, so the difference is neglible. HFCS 42 is also very common, and as the name suggests, it's only 42% fructose, so actually less fructose than table sugar.
HFCS 90, however, is much more harmful because of the excessive amount of fructose; thankfully it's rarely used, and only used in small amounts because it's disgustingly sweet.
So the video is correct; high fructose corn syrup is not any worse health wise than table sugar unless for some reason you're just chugging HFCS 90.
Table sugar is just as bad. Just reduce the amount of added sugar you eat.
Anyone who's seen how kids act after holloween can tell you how excess sugar changes behavior
Saying sugar doesn't have anything to do with hyperactivity is like saying weather has nothing to do with catching a cold. Real life experience >>> theory
And I've tried studying for exams in an office that had a bunch of cookies/candies and other sugary snacks around and everything they said here 2:57 is EXACTLY what I experienced when normally my attention span and focus are superhuman. Sugar was definitely NOT giving me the energy I needed to focus and learn, it was just giving me a ton of distraction and frustration
I have to say super uninformed on them trying to debunk “sugar is addictive”. Sugar can ABSOLUTELY cause physical and strong withdrawal symptoms- it has for me, along with other unhealthy habits I’ve tried to quit. This past year I’ve limited my sugar intake immensely. And feel my body thanks me for it.
Wait hold the phone, sugar is not addictive? It just acts the same way addictive substances do. It releases endorphins... how is not addictive?
The video says it.
Do you have any idea how many things release endorphins? Exercise and laughter are examples. Your body can release endorphins and not get addicted.
anything can release dopamine. You wouldn't call going to a theme park addictive, or listening to music addictive.
Educate yourself
actually you can get addicted to anything, but because processed sugar is more accessible and does more damage than good then why the heck would we even eat it. Natural alternatives are much better that the densely packed white sugar bags.
Because addiction to sugar is a psychological addiction. Some drugs induce biochemical addiction. The body changes biochemical cycles and becomes dependant on the drug. In that state if you just cut out the drug totally, you will have severe withdrawal symptoms, hazardous to health.
It's about usage of terms. Some people use term addiction to both biochemical and psychological, some use it only to biochemical. I think both usage are valid, because biochemical addictions can't be cured in the same way as psychological, so they are more "true" addictions. But commonly understood meaning of addiction definitely include both types.
Being on a keto diet myself and so far lost nearly 30 lbs in 1 1/2 month without feeling hungry, I'm calling BS on this video.
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The vocal frrrrrrryyyyyyyyy on them should tell you everything you need to know
i was on the Atkins diet and went insane. I was always hungry, I was always tired and angry. It got to the point where I was suicidal. I'm glad it works for you but never again for me.
Long term...
Or did you purposefully ignore that part
one word calorie decifit - you lost weight becuaes your energy consumption was less than energy expenditure
How the hell do dietitians not know that your body can produce all the glucose it requires from protein and fat precursors? That we need exogenous sugar is what is a complete myth. Our brain is going to be fine running 83% glucose and 17% ketones. That is completely sustainable.
What you're doing when you consume sugar is you're pouring excess sugar into a system that is already capped out in sugar. There is no possible way to moderate your own blood sugar like this. Consume protein and fat and let your body handle blood sugar like any normal animal you could think off, even our herbivorous cousins rely on a high fat diet.
Great video! Thank you for doing this!
Confusingly mixes different types of sugar (with very different consequences) just for the sake of “myth debunking”.
I mean a sugar free diet usually refers to leaving out processed sugar in my experience, one would still eat fruit and carbohydrates and therefore not deprive the body of glucose, surely.
Actually, no. I only eat meat, butter and salt. No carbs, no vegetables, no fruit. Have done for a long time and I'm far healthier than most people my age.
@@al6741 I said usually, you diet seems unusual to me.
@@monikawiedmann8594 my point was, in the absence of feeding your body glucose, it makes the small amount you need all by itself. You don't need to ingest it.
1:16 But different sugars are metabolized in different ways. Glucose is consumed by any cell, while fructose is only processed by the liver (and it is easy to overwhelm it). So, if you really want to have a non-alcoholic fatty liver, just eat a lot of fructose. The same amount of glucose (e.g. starch) won't work.
As someone who has struggled with drug addiction, my relationship with sugar is very similar.
Sugar is 100% addictive. The analysis of that "myth" was completely disingenuous. The dose of sugar you're getting in a single bowl of strawberries is not high enough to elicit an addictive effect, but the average American diet IS.
BS.
I agree. That's why you have people over 600 pounds. Even a show for it.
Finally someone with real logical reasoning
They fail to mention, when that sugar is extracted and concentrated, which is what you're getting in those processed foods, which is the problem and causing the addiction and obesity problem we have.
"People have chewed coca leaves for at least 8,000 years as a mild stimulant without any evidence of addiction, but when certain components are isolated and concentrated into cocaine, we’ve got a problem. The same may be true of sugar-people don’t tend to binge on bananas. The isolation of sugar from the whole food may be the reason we’re more likely to supersize soda than sweet potatoes, or why we’re less likely to eat too much corn on the cob, but can’t seem to get enough high fructose corn syrup.
The overconsumption of sugar-sweetened diets has often been compared to drug addiction. However, until very recently this parallel was based more on anecdotal evidence than on solid scientific grounds. But now we have PET scans, imaging technology that can measure brain activity. It all started with a publication from the Institute of Clinical Physiology that showed decreased dopamine sensitivity in obese individuals. The heavier they were, the less responsive to dopamine they appeared to be. We see the same reduction in sensitivity in cocaine addicts and alcoholics, which “would suggest that a reduction in dopamine receptors is associated with addictive behavior irrespective of whether it is due to food or to addictive drugs, as seen in substance abusers.”
completely false stop lying
Who is to say that these experts are more experts than other experts?
No one. If only they would state that instead of acting like they know everything.
Very sensible! The real solution is to train your body (gradually) to prefer savory foods rather than sweet. (And to eat as much unprocessed foods as possible. And get to like water when you’re thirsty… and THEN if you still want something tasty after quenching your thirst to then choose something that you can sip, like wine or liqueur or smoothies or tea or coffee, rather than thirst-quenching, refined drinks).
When I heard that sugar is not addictive, I was having some fruit because I had just felt anxiety and wanted something sweet... What can I call that? I'm trying to cut off my refined sugar intake but I get very anxious about it.
I can confirm the adhd thing.
I even have coffee and I'm not hyper, I get better focus and less mood swings, but one thing I know that can mess with adhd and cognitive function is certain food colouring like red dye, it made me more angry and there's a video that elaborated it but forgot how it happens exactly but it's good to know
As someone with type 2 diabetes... Thank You! I wish more people understood diabetes and its causes. Myths lead to SO MUCH stigma. It's exhausting.
"No-Sugar Diets Don't Work". I gave up refined sugars and my teeth pain went away and I never feel plaque build-up at the gumline. Works for me!
Paid for by the sugar industry. I am 60 with a BMI of 23. I have a science background and will leave it at that. This video is so disheartening. There are actually studies showing that some people with type 2 diabetes can reverse their diabetes by removing simple sugars. So that means removing things like bread and noodles too. Look it up. Sugar is just a category and there are advantageous sugars but when it comes to nutrition we are referring to added simple sugars, typically "table sugar." You don't need to ADD any simple sugar to ANYTHING. Throw it away. I mainly use xylitol from birch trees, a sweetener that has been used 100s of years and has the bonus of helping prevent tooth decay and ear infections.
I have been eating lower carbohydrates for over a year, also skipping breakfast, and eating more healthy fats and moderate protein. I have never been more positive, more energized, more healthy. Yes, there is different types of sugar in various foods but It is important to cut the processed and added sugars as much as possible. The way these ladies talk about ketones and ketosis as negative is really simplistic. Long term low carb people know this. There should be just these recommendations (lost 40pounds like this and have kept it off without ever counting calories):
- cut processed foods, eat real food,
- cut added sugar as much as possible,
- don’t snack/eat max 3x a day/eat 1st meal later in the day/have an eating window of 6-8 hours/IM fasting,
-don’t be afraid of fats like butter, olive oil,
-eat moderate protein,
-cut excess carbs (helps to keep insulin levels in check),
- eat lots of veggies, like cruciferous ones.
It does work. The moderation thing sounds cute but the truth is that some foods are addictive and raise insulin like crazy. For me what kills it is wheat and sugar mix in foods. It is like drugs.
Maybe sugar isn't as addictive as heroine, but it is addictive!! I got bad withdrawals when I stopped drinking soda. I don't drink soda anymore, but I still have a problem with other sweet stuff.
Lost me at….
“brain uses glucose,” as if it’s largely dependent on it. My brain/body doesn’t need me to consume sugar it makes it’s own. My body needs potassium, calcium, magnesium, sodium, chloride in addition to protein, healthy fats and leafy green vegetables.
Exactly!
When I eat refined sugar, I want more sugar. When I eat sugar it makes me hungry. This has been true all my life. I also feel more energetic when I cut out refined sugar. It’s that simple.
And there's an abundance of science available to prove why. I guess it's just not available to dietitians.
I once fasted from simple sugars to jump start a weight loss plan that basically was designed to slowly change my eating/drinking habits to support a healthy lifestyle. It worked, but health changes and other problems led to a return to overeating. I would eat fruit, and drink milk or water, but I allowed myself zero juice, soda, tea or coffee (I tend to add a lot of sweetener to my cereals and caffeinated beverages).
I would eat fruits, pasta/spinach salad, raw almonds.... basically eat small, snack-like meals throughout the day and have a full meal at home with my family. I also made dietary exchanges based on nutrition. I was allowed carbs, but avoided empty carbs or foods with a higher carb value.
Example: instead of potato with butter/sour cream and chicken, I had butternut or acorn squash (lower in carbs, higher in value) with butter and seasoning and some chicken.
Eventually I started exercising more and the small changes became big ones. It is possible.
@@jdamommio some were snacks, some were meals. Modern proportions are unrealistic. Hunter-gatherers spent hours or days on foot eating dried meat, nuts, and gathered produce, only eating large portions when they were settled for the day in one place. I ate portions according to what my body actually needed instead of what I thought I wanted, and between that and exercise, I lost a healthy 60 pounds in one year. It was the healthiest my body has ever felt.
The human body is very adaptable and has gone through many changes in the last 400 years. Our modern expectations will not always match what we need or what we are capable of.
@@jdamommio you are literally trying to criticize a diet that helped me lower my blood pressure and handle my back pain. It was according to nutritional guidelines and not a crash diet, and it was my choice. It put me in the best shape of my life. I wish I was as healthy now, as I was then, and I wish it was a choice I could make again. Alas, circumstances do not allow.
@@jdamommio intermittent fasting? No. Because the result of that, in some people with bodies like mine, is having a difficult time controlling portions and nutritional choices. And intermittent fasting IS a crash diet. What I did worked for me until other health situations that were preexisting popped up. Then babies and terrible results when I was forced to have larger meals or none at all. I gained like crazy.
Lesson: the same diet plan does not work for everyone
Question: if it worked for me, why criticize it? What is the point of trying to do that?
Sugar is not addictive? Really? There are numerous doctors talking about sugar addiction and citing studies that confirmed this (although I haven't read those studies myself). Now, these two dieticians are telling us sugar isn't addictive? At this point, I'm just confused. Guess I will need to read those studies afterall.
Sugar is not considered addictive because in regular amounts it doesn't affect your mood. That doesn't mean you can't be addicted to sugar, but that would require excessive amounts.
Addiction is chemical dependency. If you can replace sugar with gaming or exercising (That also produce dopamine) it can't be classed as addiction, you're just craving dopamine just as all humans do.
It's addictive - they said it causes cravings and that addiction as a craving for a habit forming substance.
Mind that when the ladies above are talking about sugar they also speak about carbohydrates - which is why they say not eating sugar leads to ketosis. When they say sugar is not addictive, they mean the stuff bread, potatoes and rice is made of, is not addictive
They keep interchanging both definitions, and in my honest opinion, whitewash just how bad refined sugar is for you. Specifically, the fructose molecule (50% in table sugar, up to 90% in high fructose corn syrup) messes with your hormones, and is processed in your liver like a toxin, leading to the production of harmful byproducts (fats that clog up your arteries). Cut as much refined sugar from your diet as you can and drink fruit juices in moderation.
Sugar is FDA legalized cocaine, you're supposed to eat sugar in moderation but most Americans and Europeans are addicted to sugar and consume in large quantities thanks to legacy companies like Coca Cola. Addiction comes in many forms and there's no shame in admitting you are addicted to sugar when you're on the verge of death.
Because they are not medical doctors they are dietician, they are great for giving you a good plan to keep you eating healthy but at the end of the day relying on them for medical advice is not a good idea.
We’ll I’ve been doing intermittent fasting and have drastically cut down my sugar intake. I have more energy, I’ve lost weight, I have less cellulite and my mental focus has improved. So I don’t know how up to date their information is.
Having worked in the fitness industry for 10 years, I have noticed the people who often spout these myths are the same people who struggle with their health and fitness. They will look down on physically fit people for having the occasional processed meal or fizzy drink, and yet they are often in terrible physical state despite their claims that they avoid chemicals and only eat natural ingredients.
Fitness is not health first of all. However, a lack of fitness can be indicative of poor health. The “dietician” in the video is fat. She is probably unhealthy. The problem I have with your statement is that you think people are occasionally eating unhealthy. Oftentimes individuals believe they eat cleaner than they actually do. They don’t just occasionally eat pizza. They eat pizza, then go out and eat Chipotle - which uses canola, sunflower and rice bran oil, three refined oils that are oxidative; then they buy a cold sandwich from Safeway thinking that’s healthy too. And if they really want to go the “healthy” cooking route oftentimes bodybuilders and gym goers like making pasta and rice which aren’t great either.
I knew about hidden sugar a long time ago and I actually watch my intake, but I do over do it sometimes.
I cut out sugar over a year ago and I've never had so much energy and a clearer head so im a lil unsettled on these ladies encouraging sugar, seems a lil weird
You can not cut out all of the sugars from your diet, you would die eventually. Or rather your body would eat itself to power the brain.
@@uikonimi they most likely are referring to added and refined sugars.
They said eat it moderately, not eating more sugar
@@uikonimi the body only needs a teaspoon of glucose in the blood, the liver is very capable of making this glucose. The human body has no need for carbs. Many people are doing carnivore just fine and with great benefits.
@@uikonimi you don't need sugar, or carbs for that matter.
Uh, there is evidence that high fructose corn syrup is worse than regular sugar, at least for rodents. HFCS has been shown in peer reviewed studies to shorten their lifespan compared to those fed table sugar.
This video is really convoluted. When people ask if they should cut out sugar they are asking about processed/table sugar. The answer just being “no” is the worst way to answer this question considering how sugar filled the American diet is