Sugar Is Poison
USC's Robert H. Lustig on "Sugar: The Bitter Truth." Sugar is poison. I eat almost no sugar, and very few carbohyrates, because I've read the science -- the evidence-based kind -- on both. Most people's doctors have them eating based on the "science" -- like Ancel ("Mr. Selection Bias") Keys' shoddy research detailed in Lustig's video.
And no, a calorie is not a calorie. Eating less and exercising more isn't the answer.
Binge-eater? Eat meat only, with adequate fat and protein, and I bet you won't find yourself binging.
Oh, and as Lustig will tell you, don't assume fruit juice is healthy, or much healthier than soda. It's loaded with sugar.
Two books for people who want to eat a science-based diet:
Gary Taubes' Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health.
And Dr. Michael Eades and Dr. Mary Dan Eades' The 6-Week Cure for the Middle-Aged Middle.
Also check out Michael Eades blog, and follow him on Twitter at @DrEades, where he often links to studies on low-carb and vitamin D. He's really good (and I don't think many people in medicine, especially the dietary end of things, are).
Thanks, Cridster, for the Lustig link
You may already know about him, but I follow Seth Roberts' blog where he covers a lot of the same/similar ground. He is the author of the Shangri-la Diet.
http://blog.sethroberts.net/
cremes at October 13, 2009 6:15 AM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2009/10/13/a_high_sugar_di.html#comment-1672266">comment from cremesWhat is the Shangri-la diet? (On deadline, and it's not readily available on his blog.)
Amy Alkon at October 13, 2009 6:36 AM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2009/10/13/a_high_sugar_di.html#comment-1672270">comment from Amy AlkonThe Shangri-la diet is shit -- advising you to consume...poison! Sugar!
http://www.diet-blog.com/archives/2006/04/10/the_shangri_la_diet.php
Eat meat, cheese, eggs, bacon and low-carb vegetables and you won't count calories or be hungry. As Eades writes on his blog, there's more "calorie wasting" when you are eating fat and protein instead of carbs. Basically, if I'm remembering correctly (sorry, again, on deadline - look it up at proteinpower.com), your cells blow off excess fat/protein calories in a way they don't with carbohydrate calories, which they suck up. Insulin reaction caused by carb intake causes you to put on fat.
Amy Alkon at October 13, 2009 6:44 AM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2009/10/13/a_high_sugar_di.html#comment-1672272">comment from cremesInteresting that "cremes" has never commented here before this.
More on the "science" behind the Shangri-la diet:
http://www.tcsdaily.com/Article.aspx?id=052206D
Meanwhile, Gary Taubes couldn't tell me whether he thinks it's a good idea to take 5,000 iu of vitamin D (which I am taking). It'll take him a few MONTHS to read all the studies on it. That's why he's one of the few people out there whose judgment I trust in this area -- a skeptic's skeptic.
Amy Alkon at October 13, 2009 6:51 AM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2009/10/13/a_high_sugar_di.html#comment-1672278">comment from Amy AlkonAnother link -- Roberts' defenses are embarrassing (especially the bit where he suggests anecdotal evidence from Internet commenters are akin to valid and reliable data):
http://califmedicineman.blogspot.com/2006/06/dr-roberts-responds-to-my-tcsdaily.html
Amy Alkon at October 13, 2009 7:40 AM
Oh god, drinking sugar water and oil? That sounds absolutely disgusting. It violates my 2 major diet tenets: 1) I won't consume anything that I find gross (that's why I won't ever do Taubes: I don't eat much meat/dairy and don't like greasy foods) and 2) I'm not following anything that doesn't make intuitive sense...no gimmicks.
Amy I have a question for you: do eat fruit? What does Taubes say about it? I know fruit has sugar, but surely raspberries =/= donuts? (This is purely theoretical, because I know I could never give it up, period!)
Shannon at October 13, 2009 9:10 AM
So my husband has type 2 diabetes and wants to know if there is a good cookbook. He doesn't like the reviews on the one posted, 6 week cure, but wants to get everything sorted. He is OK taking the Metaformin but wants to get off it. He drinks the Soda with Splenda in it and we use that for our tea and coffee, does this diet say anything about those?
JosephineMO6 at October 13, 2009 9:17 AM
For all the anecdotal evidence it's worth, I bought Gary Taubes' book based on Amy's recommendation, and started cutting out the sugar about 3-4 months ago. I'm a 35 year old male and I eat deep fried chicken wings almost every day, with zero exercise.
Since I started, I've lost over 30 pounds, my chronic heartburn is basically gone, and my cholesterol is the lowest it's ever been.
@shannon: You can eat fruit, but you have to choose based on sugar content. i.e. oranges and grapes are out, strawberries and nectarines are in. Raspberries and other berries are also fine, they don't have a lot of sugar.
P at October 13, 2009 9:32 AM
For the record, he's UCSF and not USC.
JosephineMO6 - Everybody likes Amy, and she might even be right about Taubes. But if your husband has special needs, you should spend some money to get direction from a nutritionist or a doctor, someone classroom-educated in biology who'll set aside some time to think about it. This just a blog full of goofballs.
Crid [CridComment @ gmail] at October 13, 2009 9:54 AM
Okay, that is it - I'm cutting soda out today. I'm really embarrassed at how much pop I drink. I don't need this shit.
Elle at October 13, 2009 10:04 AM
Individual taste is the dumb luck that can protect us or kill us. I've never enjoyed fizzy drinks, and when a nutritionist friend (the one who sent the Lustig clip) recommended I give up fruit juice for actual fruit, it was very easy to stop: The fiber had become as attractive as the flavor....
And here's why. The change in fruit juice (particularly in restaurants) had become glaringly obvious, but the packaging still said 'unadulterated fruit juice'. And so I didn't put it together... I should have trusted my tongue on a conscious level.
Drinking a deaerated beverage is like trying to have good sex with a woman twenty minutes after she comes out of a year-long coma.
Crid [CridComment @ gmail] at October 13, 2009 10:10 AM
By the way, that woman's book was published by Yale Press.
So I promise you won't find any distressing depictions of Allah inside.
And actually...
Crid [CridComment @ gmail] at October 13, 2009 10:19 AM
...Their excuse-making is worth a read for its own sake.
"The decision rested solely on the experts’ assessments that there existed a substantial likelihood of violence that might take the lives of innocent victims."
All of life's a circle, knowutimean? Can't get away from these things.
Crid [CridComment @ gmail] at October 13, 2009 10:22 AM
Shannon - avoid meat at your own dietary peril. Nobody said that you can't consume vegetables and berries. I wouldn't be shocked if Amy does too.
Crusader at October 13, 2009 11:09 AM
A lecture many years ago by a UCLA chemistry professor on the processes which occur in the body upon consumption of processed sugar was HORRIFYING!
Now, so long as I can convince myself that dark, semi-sweet chocolate has no sugar, I'll be fine. :P
Jay R at October 13, 2009 11:20 AM
Thanks for the Link to Dr. Eades blog! I've been trying to eat better recently. In the last year, I've cut out all caffine and quit smoking. At 25 years old I had started having heart palpitations from all of the caffine and nicotine!! Since I quit smoking I packed on few pounds (I would rationalize eating a bag of cookies in one sitting by saying: "At least I'm not smoking.") I decided to start eating batter. One thing I wanted to add into my diet was yogurt, so I started buying Yoplait Light. After about a week of having a cup of yogurt every morning, the heart palpitations started again. Turns out it's true what they say about Aspertame...the stuff is poison. I actually wrote a letter to Yoplait asking them how they can claim to be promoting a cure for cancer (their whole save the lids program) while selling a product that causes it. No response. Big shock, right?
Anywho, I'm rambling. Thanks for the blog! Dr. Eades isn't a fan of aspartame, either...that's how I can tell he's legit. :)
I'm not quite ready to give up sugar yet, though. I wonder if finding a raw sugar is better. I'll have to read up on it when I have more time! Hey, I kicked the coffee, the cola, and the smokes....I'll get to taming the sweet tooth eventually.
Kim at October 13, 2009 11:57 AM
Hahahaha!! Ummm, that should read: "I decided to start eating bEtter" in the first paragraph...though eating batter sounds like a lot more fun.
Kim at October 13, 2009 12:00 PM
I'm with Amy/Taubes on the carbs - people lived on rice, pasta, and potatoes as part of a subsistence-level diet in a pre-industrial society full of hard physical labor - not in our food-abundant, sedentary society.
But not everyone will lose weight on Taubes' plan without some form of portion control.
And yes - eating protein and fats keeps me from getting hungry. Which makes portion control easier. But for some people it still may be necessary to limit caloric intake.
Ben-David at October 13, 2009 12:00 PM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2009/10/13/a_high_sugar_di.html#comment-1672345">comment from Ben-DavidBut not everyone will lose weight on Taubes' plan without some form of portion control.
There isn't a "Taubes plan" -- he merely laid out the science.
And you don't need portion control. You don't overeat steak and protein the way you do carbs. I put a friend on a diet -- meat and eggs only for a month -- and he's lost 17 pounds, without exercise. He's amazed that he doesn't need to overeat, doesn't want to, and doesn't get hungry. You just eat what you need and stop. Your body directs you.
Amy Alkon at October 13, 2009 12:11 PM
For breakfast this morning I had:
2 slices of bacon, chopped up and pan fried. Then I threw in three huge handfuls of baby spinach and some pepper. Wilted that and mixed it with the bacon grease. Then I added two eggs + one egg white. And a small slice of cheddar cheese.
It was DELICIOUS. But I was hungry an hour later, which I blame on the fact I did a 1-hour workout before eating.
Gretchen at October 13, 2009 12:17 PM
So my question is for Taubites... can you pull this off without a ton of cooking? Or is that just a feature? 'Cuz I hate cooking with a firey, firey passion. I 'spose I could find a partner that loves cooking with the same passion I hate it, and, I dunno, rotate her tires or something, but... you see my problem. Nuking soup for 2.5 minutes in a bowl and eating it, is a whole other thing that what Gretchen did... Her breakfast was something on the order of 10X more time and effort.
D'ya think it's a requirement?
SwissArmyD at October 13, 2009 12:59 PM
So my question is for Taubites... can you pull this off without a ton of cooking?
This is actually rather simple without any cooking. If someone serves you meat, you can eat it. Anything in a sandwich, order it without a bun. Fajittas are just meat cut in strips...if you don't eat the tortillas, again, very low carb.
I live mostly on drive through and lower end sit down restaurant fare (Chilis, Outback, red lobster) and I have no problem sticking to this diet.
If you want to do some cooking, the crock pot is your friend as well. You can douse anything in chicken broth, cover it with garlic and let it cook all day. It turns out pretty good.
I've also been making a sort of cheddar quiche in the microwave. It isn't great, but it is cheap and low carb.
-Julie
Julie at October 13, 2009 1:14 PM
Julie - are you losing weight/staying thin eating out like this?
I would think these restaurants pump their food full of preservative and salt?
As to the quiche: I do "baby quiches" ahead of time for when I have to work early in the AM. It's like what I ate for breakfast today except portable and it reheats well. Just grab your fixings (meat pre-cooked) and fill up well-PAM'ed muffin tins. Do a little layer of beaten egg, then your goodies, then top off with more egg and bake at 350 until no longer wet.
Gretchen at October 13, 2009 3:24 PM
Julie, post the recipe and I'll give you a hug and a quiche.
I'll agree with him on fruit juice. Because it is just the juice and not the fruit, there is no fiber involved to slow the absorption of carbs. While fruit juice does have vitamins, its glycemic index is about the same as Coca-cola.
Remember when the juicing trend was so popular? You'd just drop whole fruits and vegetables into a machine that would pulverize it and separate the fiber and just leave you the juice? I consider that to be among the worst ideas ever.
The only thing that should ever be juiced that way is wheat grass. If you're into drinking a grass-green potion that tastes like the front lawn, that is.
You'd be ravenous within 20 minutes of drinking those fruit and vegetable juice concoctions. A better idea is a kind of super-blender called the Vita-Mix. It pulverizes the whole vegetable, but doesn't separate it, so you're left with kind of a sludge. Just add water and you can drink it like a juice, but at least it still has the fiber.
Patrick at October 13, 2009 3:49 PM
Oh, and by the way, about drinking the sugar water and the oil, I have no idea if that would work and don't know the science behind it, but I have to say, it sounds disgusting!
Thanksgiving dinner, followed by an EVOO chaser...ugh! Can't see myself chug-a-lugging a tall one of salad dressing.
Patrick at October 13, 2009 3:54 PM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2009/10/13/a_high_sugar_di.html#comment-1672394">comment from JulieI eat slices of salami with melted cheese on them for a snack. Microwaved for about 40 seconds. Yum!
PS Best way to make bacon in the microwave - use a lidded glass dish so it cooks in its own fat. In paper towel, the fat gets sucked away. Bad idea, tastes like crap. I cook mine for eight minutes on medium. High heat burns it.
Amy Alkon at October 13, 2009 6:01 PM
I'll throw in my experience with this sort of eating:
I am a huge carb and sugar lover, always have been (worked in a Baeckerei for six months just because I love baking so much. Gained 15 pounds. 15 delicious, sugary pounds). I can sit down and eat an entire loaf of challah with no problem.
I started making a conscious effort to eat more fat and less carbs, which is hard for someone who would happily live off of bread and fruit. Now, I eat eggs, bacon, and cheese every morning for breakfast, have yogurt (the Greek kind, full fat, no sugar) and more cheese for lunch, and eat lots of fatty nuts. I still eat a lot of fruit but pair it with nuts or cheese. I bake my own bread and make high fat breads like olive oil soaked focaccia (no sugar other than a teaspoon to wake up the yeast). I save the leftover bacon fat and cook everything else in it.
I've always been thin, but now it's getting ridiculous-I'm down to about 114 pounds, my ass has melted away, and I could probably cut someone with my hipbones. I'm down to a size 2 from a 6 earlier this year. I've also lost my taste for sugar-I ate a spoonful of coffee ice cream after dinner (spinach soaked in oil and fish) and it tasted so cloyingly sweet I didn't even want it anymore. When I crave sweets I have some really dark chocolate with nuts in it and that kills it.
I have a lot more energy (no more afternoon naps) and my hair and skin look fantastic. My only concern is getting too thin now, as I'm 5' 6" and am starting to look like Skeletor. (Also I didn't realize you could lose weight in your feet, and I'm walking out of all of my pumps.)
Choika at October 13, 2009 6:12 PM
Oh, and I never ever buy anything that has "light," "lite," "reduced fat," "low fat," or any variation thereof, on the label. I drink full fat milk and eat full fat yogurt.
Of course, food shopping will get more expensive when all high fat things are taxed because they're bad for you, right? Stand back, America. Your government is doing science!!
Choika at October 13, 2009 6:28 PM
By the way, regarding the "is there a way to do this without cooking?" question, I don't subscribe to this Taubes-inspired eating trend, but I would say yes. Try beef jerky. Walmart sells a fatty, low-carb (2g/serving) beef jerky in a huge bag for about 8 bucks. Nice deal.
Cheese will work. Kraft has put out a Wisconsin Sharp Cheddar that has no carbs.
Armor Vienna Sausage has a chicken version with no carbs and 20 grams of fat per 5 oz can. Each can also has 15 grams of protein. (The other varieties have a couple of grams of carbs.)
There are any number of lunch meats available that have no carbs. Just read the label to be sure.
I would say, with those choices, you could pretty much go for days at a time without cooking, if need be. If you don't mind the limited choices, you could go indefinitely.
There. At least the week I took slogging through this unnatural eating plan served some purpose.
Patrick at October 13, 2009 6:48 PM
I want to know where wine comes in -- in Europe, it's taken with almost every evening meal. We have a glass or two with almost every evening meal here. It is as sugary as juice? If one does not eat sugary things, which I don't, but have a weakness for good wine, would this hinder a diet free of sugar?
I can't imagine a meal without it!
Ally at October 13, 2009 9:34 PM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2009/10/13/a_high_sugar_di.html#comment-1672427">comment from AllyEades says in his book that "When you drink too much alcohol, you slow the middle body fat loss substantially. He suggests avoiding "overdoing" alcohol while in the weight loss stage -- and suggests a four-ounce glass of wine once a week while in that stage.
I drink wine several times a week, lately -- but it's about the only carbohydrates I take in, save for small quantities in cottage cheese, etc. I also drink dry white wine. Perhaps that has less sugar. Don't know, but I'm generally eating so healthily this doesn't concern me, this...maybe three glasses of wine a week.
Look, if you want something, it's going to take work. If you want to lose weight, you have to take steps. My friend who I put on the all-meat and eggs diet has lost 17 pounds in almost a month and his blood pressure, bad before, is really good, as of today. He misses wine, but he won't be missing all the bad drugs he's been taking, prescribed by a doctor who does not (like so many do not) practice actually evidence-based medicine. PS I'd be shocked if your doctor does.
Amy Alkon at October 13, 2009 9:55 PM
> I want to know where wine comes in
The mouth. No exceptions. Understood?
Crid [CridComment @ gmail] at October 13, 2009 9:58 PM
I couldn't imagine anyone sticking to a diet if it means giving up something you love. But as Amy points out, putting it on hiatus might be in order for you to reach your goal, then some restrictions when you arrive.
Patrick at October 14, 2009 12:34 AM
P writes: @shannon: You can eat fruit, but you have to choose based on sugar content. i.e. oranges and grapes are out, strawberries and nectarines are in. Raspberries and other berries are also fine, they don't have a lot of sugar.
This is why diets fail. And people do not fail diets. No one has ever failed a diet. Diets fail them.
Because they only word they understand is "no." "No this." "No that." "You must never, never, never, never, never, never, never have this."
I've never needed to diet except after my car accident 9 years ago. But the diet that worked for me is the diet that said "yes." It's called the carb addicts' diet. And it has a few things in common with the recommendations of those who think Taubes is the be-all-to-end-all.
You get three meals a day. Two of them are equal portions of one item with protein and fat, but no carbs and the other item is a low-carb vegetable (which they call carb craving reducing vegetable). The third meal (called the reward meal) is basically the same as the other two, with two items added on. You start with a salad, and then you get a third portion (equal to the protein and vegetable source) of anything your little heart desires.
Psychologically, it is the best diet in the world. You don't have to see someone eating something that you like and tell yourself, "I can never have that again."
Instead, you can say, "That looks good. I think I'll have that for my reward meal tomorrow."
Only two restrictions. The portions have to be equal. You can't have an eight-ounce steak, eight ounces of broccoli and the entire sixteen-ounce container of Ben and Jerry's Phish Food. And the other is, you have one hour to eat the reward meal from salad to dessert.
I found that the low carb vegetables were very useful in reducing the cravings. And many times I simply did without dessert. But it was very helpful to be able to say, "I can have that if I want."
Amy recently posted a column about a Vegan who considered himself morally superior. Some of the adherents of the Taubes-inspired recommendations might do well to be on guard against that themselves.
Patrick at October 14, 2009 6:04 AM
Amy is starting to sound a little like that New York food-nazi mayor. It's a short walk from telling people what they should and shouldn't eat to wanting to legislate it. Although, you do at least walk to walk that you're preaching.
momof4 at October 14, 2009 6:50 AM
Amy - wine and beer are quite low in carbohydrates. What gets you metabolically speaking is the alcohol. While your liver is busy extracting energy from that, it isn't consuming fat from your body.
I've found that the only way I can keep my body at a lower weight is to deny myself all the foods I like. If I eat what I like, my weight is stable at 208. So while I'd like to weigh 180 again, I just can't abide the manner in which I have to live to achieve it.
brian at October 14, 2009 6:55 AM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2009/10/13/a_high_sugar_di.html#comment-1672484">comment from momof4Amy is starting to sound a little like that New York food-nazi mayor
Not in the slightest. His pronouncements are not based in science. I'm presenting the science, which nobody's presenting. If you go to a doctor, I bet they'll prescribe you statins -- damaging -- and not put you on a science-based diet but an un-science-based one; one that makes you fatter and sicker; perhaps after a short time of losing weight and a small weight loss. Very small.
Who here wants to do as my friend did -- lose 17 pounds in almost a month and have marked improvement in blood pressure, sans exercise? He gets to start exercising and adding vegetables and dairy soon.
Also, the mayor is trying to force his ideas on people. I'm telling people what the deal is. If they choose to keep drinking sugared sodas and eating muffins, well, that's their affair.
I'm always amazed by people who are upset by information -- perhaps because they have to look at what they're doing or eating and it doesn't look so smart anymore.
Sugar. Is. Poison.
See the science. Above.
Amy Alkon at October 14, 2009 6:59 AM
Amy - cholesterol is not related to diet. Science.
I eat a dozen eggs and a pound of bacon a week. I drink beer and wine and liquor. I eat fish, and red meat, and pizza, and pastries, and vegetables.
My cholesterol is 205.
If I cut out all carbs (including fruits and vegetables and nuts) I can lose weight. I had to stay in the induction phase of Atkins to not gain weight.
I'd rather have my pizza and such.
Sugar is not poison. But like all things, it must be taken in moderation.
brian at October 14, 2009 8:05 AM
The one thing I'll say about "science", Amy, is that it's relative. Unless you are the actual scientist, taking the actual measurements, you have to rely on what other people report. Therein lies the rub, from us non-scientists. The catch-22 lies in taking of a whole cloth what is supposed to be science, and not knowing what the other side is. So, while I'm going to give Taubes stuff a read, and what Lustig says is tremendously interesting... It wouldn't be hard at all to find other people, equally well written and presented that present a mainstream view, and who also think they are right. You might even find some that had full science to back them up. [Actually give me Covert Bailey for presentation... I know his system works for some people, too.]
Except science isn't full, when presented in this manner. It depends on what people include, what they ignore, what they control for and suchlike. It isn't self-evident who is right, BECAUSE the data can be cut in so many ways. If I look at the source data, will I even make sense of it? Lustig paints a fascinating picture. He obviously believes it. But so did Nixon's people, so did those that prefected high-fruct corn syrup... and the Orange producers that put it in an aseptic tank. You can say in retrospect that DDT is a bad thing [except when it isn't]. And we are carrying more weight and becoming more obese... and living longer than ever. Is it tech that is allowing that, is it vitos, or drugs or are we waiting for the bottom to drop out?
So. Tonight the part of Scientist will be played by me, and I'll have to run some experiments, to see what works. I like to listen to what others have done and see what they say, but this isn't a zero sum game. Dunno if the pattern that Amy espouses will work for me or not, but it's worth a shot. I'll keep in mind Patrick's experience, as well...
Amy, if'n you'd like to share that monthlong diet, where'd you get it?
SwissArmyD at October 14, 2009 12:45 PM
Watch the video. It's not that sugar is poison, it's that fructose specifically is being delivered to people in quantities and formulas that mask the presence of this chemistry to the brain.
Listen, I think Amy gets carried away with this stuff in a lot of respects. I could pick fights with her on several points and squabble for the next three weeks. But "poison" is a defensible word for what's being done to people.
It's very much like Katrina. OK, sure... All those impoverished, inarticulate people should have known that our land use policies had put them at risk for terrible flooding. But I sympathize with people who think it was unconscionable behavior on the part of the larger culture.
Crid [CridComment @ gmail] at October 14, 2009 1:58 PM
Momof4 writes: Amy is starting to sound a little like that New York food-nazi mayor. It's a short walk from telling people what they should and shouldn't eat to wanting to legislate it.
I don't view Amy's enthusiasm for Taubes as trying to tell people what to do so much as finding what she considers a very good thing and wanting to share it. She might be accused of being overly enthusiastic, but hardly dictatorial about it.
In any case, she isn't nearly as aggressive (or insufferable) as some of the enthusiasts and instant dietary experts that some on this blog have become. She has not insulted anyone who doesn't agree with her or is skeptical or put off by it, for instance, which is more than the other dietary zealots can say. She hasn't harangued anybody or browbeaten the dissenters. She hasn't erected strawmen. She could stand to be more reserved, but "Nazi" is way over the line.
Patrick at October 14, 2009 2:56 PM
BTW, that "formulas" thing happens to be literal.
Crid [CridComment @ gmail] at October 14, 2009 3:16 PM
Thank you for this. It was quite timely. I just had a check-up, my HDL is high (great!) my triglycerides are low (great!) but my LDL is high...the Dr. was talking statins, I declined. He gave me three months to "do something about it". I'm very glad I saw, especially, the portion of the video clip about light and heavy LDL and the fact that both are measured together, and the only way you can tell which you have more of is the HDL and triglyceride readings. I'm looking for a print source on that and bringing it to my appointment three months from now.
The whole video was great info. Thanks! You've prevented at least one person from going on statins.
crella at October 14, 2009 3:33 PM
See the science. Above.
Taubes isn't a scientist, but a science journalist.
His book attempts to review the available research, and advocates a different interpretation which would lead to a whole new direction of research.
Engineer at October 15, 2009 7:10 AM
More news on the health front:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/health/6668982.html
"WASHINGTON — A major report confirms what health officials have long believed: Bans on smoking in restaurants, bars and other gathering spots reduce the risk of heart attacks among nonsmokers."
JoJo at October 15, 2009 12:49 PM
Great video, thanks for posting it. I think I'll go for a hike now.
belle de ville at October 18, 2009 12:00 PM
You are completely right sugar is poison, however most sugar alternative can be worse for your body then sugar it's self. Good alternatives can be honey, Stevia...
More info at : http://www.garretthaae.com/2010/03/25/sugar-the-modern-day-poison/
Garrett
Garrett at March 28, 2010 12:21 AM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2009/10/13/a_high_sugar_di.html#comment-1704967">comment from GarrettActually, the Eades write in one of their books that Stevia may stimulate the release of insulin. I also find it helpful not to have the taste of sugar at all, save for about once every week and a half or so when I have a dessert. I used to crave sugar and carbs; now I don't at all.
Amy Alkon at March 28, 2010 12:45 AM
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