also it’s red scare propaganda

i literally just stepped out of the shower a minute ago. and i even put my bedsheets in the washing machine too!

well i think the difference is whether the banana does it itself, or microorganisms do it

yeah

the joke was that all people have both testo and estro in their body anyways, so it’s a result of any kind of breeding

well there is on the inside of your gut, though.

However, reading your post, I do feel I need to ask: why exactly is it that you’re talking about sugar in the context of obesity, when most other people seem to be arguing over whether or not sugar gives you diabetes? Is it because obesity leads to diabetes? Can you kindly clarify that link for me? Thanks!

yeah sure! i’ve just searched for an article on this and this was the first result: https://www.uhhospitals.org/blog/articles/2023/03/can-eating-too-much-sugar-cause-diabetes

the gist of it is: there’s two types of diabetes: Diabetes 1 and diabetes 2, which have very different mechanisms. both have the same symptoms, which is that your body fails to regulate blood sugar levels on its own, but the reasons behind this are very different.

• people with diabetes 1 just don’t produce enough insulin because the body part that normally produces insulin (pancreas) is broken. this is an organ defect and can be caused by an immune system that attacks the own body cells. bad stuff; typical onset is in childhood and is life-long. probably mostly genetic, other risk factors unknown / poorly understood.
• people with diabetes 2 do have enough insulin in their body, but the cells don’t respond to it. normally, healthy cells would start absorbing sugar from the bloodstream once they feel the presence of insulin. but with diabetes 2, they don’t. so there is insulin but the body just doesn’t respond to it. this leads to unstable blood sugar levels.

the type that people usually talk about is type 2 diabetes. this is the kind that depends on food intake, and excessive calorie intake is a large contributing factor. basically, cells try to stabilize their internal sugar levels as well, and if the cell is full, it becomes more hesitant to respond to insulin and take in even more sugar. now, if you’re obese in general, the cells are typically full of sugar, so they respond less well to additional insulin and hesitate to accept even more sugar, which is what causes the diabetes symptoms.

now, eating a lot of sugary stuff is bad for two reasons: for one because it makes type 2 diabetes more likely, and for two because if you already have diabetes, it makes the symptoms worse. since the body has an even more difficult time to keep the blood sugar levels stable and not spiking.

(type 2 diabetes is the one that’s more common btw; type 1 diabetes is only in a rare few cases)

can confirm that’s how it works. my brain is super smooth and so is my skin

beer, i guess

the thing is that the sugar in solid food is not as rapidly absorbed as from soda. so if you have hypoglycemia and are about to faint in ~90 seconds, eating a carrot is not gonna save you

Mayve i am too autistic to assume such exception exists but i have been burned by assuming common sense will apply many times before.

relatable

also i agree with the rest of your comment

i’d also like to add that the discussion about sugar typically revolves around diabetes, but that’s not the only effect that excessive sugar intake has. it also causes a higher incidence rate of inflammation; which you can imagine is because bacteria feed off that sugar in your blood, and then produce toxins which make you itchy.

the entire discussion about sugar intake seems incredibly heated to me, from just reading the comments. i don’t get why we don’t just sit down¹ and talk this through step-by-step in a meaningful way.

[1]: you can also keep standing if you want to

i’m not a phd in healthcare but i’ve read various things over the years, that i’m gonna say, if others think they have something to add / correct, feel free to chime in.

the amount of sugar intake is recommended by the WHO to be not more than 10% of your daily calorie intake. So if you consume 2000 kcal a day, that means ideally not more than 50g sugar per day.

now, what one must realize about these numbers is that they’re a worldwide average, and numbers can vary a lot by region and individual. for example, people in 1960 in the US consumed more sugar than we do today, yet they had fewer cases of obesity. the reason is because people were more physically active and worked more physically demanding blue-collar jobs. so the situation depends on time, space, individual.

so one shouldn’t take the WHO recommendation as gospel and the only truth to live by.

i think that this is a bad take as well. you can’t just reliably “wean yourself off” of coke if you actually do burn a lot of calories, because it’s not as if people could just digest arbitrarily large amounts of solid food. coke should exist, it just shouldn’t be the norm.

lemmy.blahaj.zone is not the best place for serious discussions because you can’t downvote bad takes

for the rare case that somebody actually needs a shot of sugar due to hypoglycemia (which only diabetic people have), these people typically carry sugar around with them for this exact purpose.

iirc most soda drinks are 10g sugar per 100g

depends … do you live in central europe or nearby region?

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this has been my favorite song for about the last 3 months, i’ve heard it hundreds of times so far.

finally we found out what CNC truly stands for

the only valid genders are french, irish, etc

(/s obviously)