Comment on Bran flakes could be classed as junk food under new healthy eating guidelines

Armand1@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Zombie@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Added sugars provide no nutritional benefit, but are a source of excess calories that can lead to overweight and increased disease risk.[2][3][61][62]

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar#Health_effects

  Natural sugars tend to be mixed with fibres, starches, and vitamins. These slow the process of digestion, reducing a glucose spike within the bloodstream, and providing other nutrients beyond just raw calories.

  Added sugars provide none of these benefits.

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  • Armand1@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ok, I didn’t know that there was this effect. I’ll admit I don’t know much about health and nutrition.

    That said, shouldn’t we consider all sugar content when evaluating how healthy an item is?

    After all, you can take orange juice and ultra process out all the healthier stuff, leaving only the sugars. Those won’t be “added” but they won’t be any good for you, providing a marketing loophole of “no added sugars” for companies.

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    • gnuthing@lemmygrad.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Sugar in fruit is perfectly healthy, it does not have the same negative health effects as processed sugars. This website has links to studies as the sources if you want to read them. If you don’t know much about nutrition, that is one of the best websites to learn. It’s non-profit, has the info available for free there and on YouTube and provides all the studies supporting it. A lot of what the general public thinks about diet was designed by food corporations who have no interest in your health or wellbeing

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    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Sugar should be classified as a toxin. Sugar in typical diets increase risk of dementia due to metabolic effects in the brain.

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      • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        But the brain on glucose goes brrrrrr.

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• Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What do you mean a gallon of honey is unhealthy? Its all natural sugars!

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  • CodingCarpenter@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is why I convert all my honey into alcohol. Big brain move. Alcohol kills germs. I’m sanitizing my insides

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    • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      A fellow mead enjoyer I see.

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  • nerv@fedinsfw.app ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If you manage to ingest and keep down an entire gallon of pure, raw, bee juice, without your body violently and explosively purge it in a very biological way to preserve your existence, I congratulate you.

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