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Iirc, what we normally call “sugar” is sucrose, made up of glucose and fructose. Glucose is used all over the place and too much is definitely bad (ask diabetics), while fructose is processed in your liver. Like a poison.

Just trying to remember that from stuff I’ve seen from Robert Lustig MD. There’s a very old “sugar: the bitter truth” lecture of his on YouTube, plus lots of media since then.

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easily3667@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Glucose is only bad in the same way oxygen is bad. I think you need to rewatch your lecture.

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- stray@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Too much glucose is a great way to get diabetes.
  
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  - kerrigan778@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Kind of? Getting fat and eating too much regularly are great ways to get diabetes, and sugar is a great way to get fat.
    
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    mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Sugar is also acidic. Not enough to kill you, but that’s why ketoacidosis kills people. It also increases blood viscosity, making it pump harder and causing hypertension. Plus, it causes chronic inflammation, which calcifies triglycerides in your blood to form clots.
    
    Sugar has tons of negative effects.
    
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  - easily3667@lemmus.org ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    As is an autoimmune disorder
    
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