The enemy

[tgzerozone]

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/new ... d=10795373

[Diab0lic]

Some of the comments (not to mention the article) make me cringe...

"Sugar is poison!!!11", etc, etc..

lol

Had to add my $0.02, not that it will make much difference. Good to see some other peeps calling his ass out though!

[veasel]

You should watch this,

It's not so much the sugar intake, as the sugar without its natural fibre content. With a few rare exeptions, like honey, which is rare and hard to harvest in the wild. Natural sugar sources are plant based and high fibre sources. Ever eatin a suger cane?

It's all tied up with inslin responce, to sucrose and fructose without the fibre.

I'd be more inclined to recommend people eat more fruit and veges, than worry about eliminting refined suger from there diets. If you cut out sugers, but are still eathing nothing but white bread and potatoe chips (Both low in suger) it's not going to do much good. Especially of that's all they've done, and they're still sitting on the couch watching Biggest Loser on the zombie box.

When it comes down to it, it's in the context of your overall diet, and training. For example, intensive weight training has been shown to greatly improve insulin sensitivity, an individueal engaging in high intenstiy resistance training can cope with a higher intake of refinsed sugers than someone who doesn't.

Eat real food, avoid anything processed, eat plenty of fruits and vegatables.

But don't get cought up in the health 'fads', or get to anal about it. It wasn't so long ago that fat was the enemy! In ten years the boogyman will be something else again.

You can still enjoy an occassional burger of chocolate, it's not going to harm you in the least if 90% of the time your eating real, wholesome food.

Now train hard!

[teamfatboy]

Was the author of the book the same guy that appeared on TV1 with Peter Fitzsimons ?

During that story, they never really discussed the difference between fructose or glucose, which surprised me.

Nor did they look at the way you can have low-cal, low-fat, or low-sugar - but in processed foods it's really rare to find any two of them together.... because of the way the foods are engineered.

[greemah]

Agree Veasel

[Android]

But i love sugary things like coca-cola and ice-cream and have something like that almost every day now

I have put on some fat but it's stable now despite the continual daily intake of sugary things. It's going to be eating over the calorie limit (for BMR + Training) thats the issue, not the sugar alone....i hope :shock: