thanks for posting this, I learned a lot. Pretty much avoid HF corn syrup and white sugar at all costs unless after a workout is what I learned from this thread
FTFY There is no "right" time for them. If you can? Don't eat them. If you do eat them? Do so with the acceptance that you are literally taking a drug. Alcohol is just another form of sugar.
Orange juice is poison too. It is a "refined" form of sugar (fructose without fiber). Eat the peeled orange (fiber and all) and drink a glass of water or decaffinated green tea to make up for the hydration. Maybe use some honey. I am not by any means a monk following these rules, but the truth is the truth whether the speaker adheres to it or not. :good
Sugar is supposed to be alot harder to burn than fat .Difference between fat and complex carbs is your body struggles to break fat down and stores it as fat but sugar is supposed to be almost impossible to burn .
Yup, most fruit juices are loaded with sugar, natural or not the end result is pretty dire. My dad recently came home with an empty bottle of apple juice, I looked at the label and it contained 80g of sugar. When I told my dad he just shrugged it off, but then I got out some weighing scales, poured 80g of sugar into them and my dad looked at it and said he was never drinking apple juice again.
Anyone that thinks fat is worse (let alone bad [with exception of trans fat which doesn't occur naturally anyway]) than a simple sugar or something knows nothing about nutrition. The only problem that arises from fats is when people have a lack of ability to control themselves and eat too much of them to go over their calorie intakes (at 9 cal/g).
Sugar is poison, fat is necessary. It's a no brainer to me. Fat is good for you, and fat is needed. Sugar is bad for you, and is completely unnecessary.
Our body does require glucose to survive. For instance, our brains' only source of energy is through the oxidation of glucose, without it our brain would cease to function. Source: http://www.acnp.org/g4/gn401000064/ch064.html However, dietary intake of sugar (as in simple sugars) is totally unnecessary, since whatever metabolic glucose your body needs it can readily synthesize from other non-carbohydrate carbon sources via the process of gluconeogenesis. Gluconeogenesis is almost like glycolysis except in reverse. Sources: [ame]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluconeogenesis[/ame] and [ame]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycolysis[/ame] On the other hand, our body needs certain essential fatty acids that our metabolism cannot synthesize, so dietary intake of fats is absolutely necessary to stay healthy. Source: [ame]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essential_fatty_acid[/ame]
So we needs complex carbs and saturated fats but avoid trans fat and sugar :thinkand too much saturated fat
Wrong. In the absence of sugars and other carbs your body will either break down protein for glucose through a process called gluconeogenesis or if their is enough dietary fat the body will convert to fat usage for energy and produce ketones to feed the brain. Just google the Ketogenic Diet or Ketosis. I've been on a no (<30/day) carb diet for over a month now, feel great, have tons of energy, and have lost a quite a bit of fat!
atsch Reread what I wrote because isn't that what I basically said? I was simply pointing out that we do indeed use glucose but we don't require dietary sources for them, since we are able to make it from other sources (amino acids and fats via gluconeogenesis).