On 19-Apr-11, at 10:48 AM, Heather Madrone wrote:
[snip]
Since I've lost the extra weight, I continue to limit my sugar
intake. I've observed that any high calorie high sugar treat
converts with 100% efficiency to weight gain, *even if I stay within
my calorie limit for the day*. If I
On 19-Apr-2011, at 4:07 PM, Sirtaj Singh Kang wrote:
* Giving up sugary drinks is REALLY HARD, esp if you choose not to drink
alcohol at social events etc. The only widely available non-alcoholic,
non-sugary, non-caffeinated beverage is water. Ergo, I drink a lot of water.
One does wish
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 7:44 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
http://www.indiatogether.org/2011/apr/hlt-sexratio.htm
The child sex ratio (ie., the number of females to every 1000 males in
the age group 0-6 years) ranges from 830 for Haryana, to 971 for
Mizoram. I find it
On 19-04-2011 10:48, Heather Madrone wrote:
One of Lustig's points was that, if you're going to eat sugar, you
should eat it with fiber so it enters the bloodstream more slowly. A
piece of fruit is ideal, sugary drinks are the worst.
Isn't this stuff we already know?
--
Madhu Menon
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 11:42 PM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tuesday 19 Apr 2011 9:46:40 am Udhay Shankar N wrote:
I am posting teh entire long piece below as I think it is an important
discussion to have - I wanted the opinions of the folks here, some of
whom have been saying similar
On Wednesday 20 Apr 2011 3:28:44 am Charles Haynes wrote:
This is not up to your usual standards Shiv. A implies B does not mean
that B implies A. Even if eating too much sugar means you will get
fat it does that not mean that you are fat implies you eat too
much sugar.
Let me get this
as a lay diabetic, i find sugar everywhere and by sugar i do not care if it
is refined sugar, glucose, fructose whatever. the only answer is to not eat.
hence i conclude that diabetes is an auto-immune disease since the body
wants to prevent me from eating that which gives it life and that which
On 20-Apr-11 7:44 AM, ss wrote:
In other words if Americans eat lots of toxic sugar and get fat as a result,
people who get fat are not gettng fat necessarily because of sugar, right?
The meaning of the above sentence is that getting fat is not due to sugar
alone.
Correct.
If getting
On Wednesday 20 Apr 2011 8:05:29 am Radhika, Y. wrote:
i find sugar everywhere and by sugar i do not care if it
is refined sugar, glucose, fructose whatever. the only answer is to not
eat.
The problem is worse than that Radhika - as you probably know. Fundamentally
the body relies on sugar
I find exercise really helpful (especially in the first half hour after
eating) because it is the only thing other than insulin that will remove
excess blood glucose. but maintaining a low range of variation is what i am
working at to prevent damage either way and controlling the
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Heather Madrone heat...@madrone.comwrote:
There are lots of other words that are far kinder than ignorant or
ill-informed, many of which, like sanguine, don't mean ignorant or
ill-informed. You might as well have said that conclusion was lavender or
feline
On Wednesday 20 Apr 2011 9:58:27 am Deepa Mohan wrote:
Shiv, I agree with Heather about not needing words like neurotic
obsession just because Robert Lustig has written something that you
don't agree with.
Interesting that it should come to this.
I believe that we spend most of our time
On 4/19/11 9:28 PM April 19, 2011, Deepa Mohan wrote:
Heather...the sense I get from that article is that sugar is
*invariably* bad for me; I believe, as Shiv says, that everything is
metabolized to sugar, and therefore, sugar (in moderation) is
something the human body needs.
Okay, fairly
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