Comment

Comment on Sweet tea

xohshoo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Whoa settle down there

Sucrose is 1:1 glucose/ fructose which is near the optimal 0.8 ratio for fueling endurance activities

I rode 100 miles solo in less than 5 hours Sunday on 360g sucrose in 4 750ml bottles

It’sa lot cheaper than all that fancy SIS/skratch etc

Carbs aren’t poison if you move your body

Sort:hotnew top

minorsecond@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Yeah I consume near 400g carbs every day and am fine as a competitive powerlifter who also runs (which is rare lol). You just can’t be sitting on your ass all day.

source
iopq@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
If you paid twice as much for the sugar, would it materially impact you?

source
- xohshoo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  At this point in my life no. When I was young, for sure
  
  source
psud@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Sure, but so few people are high energy athletes who can legitimately burn the sugar right away.

My comment was really about the great majority of people for whom sugar consumption is a path to metabolic disease, diabetes, and early death

I still support a tax on sugar as it would reduce consumption overall, but for those wealthy enough to exercise hard a sugar tax would hardly hurt

source
- xohshoo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Wealthy enough to exercise? Wtf?
  
  Ain’t even going there
  
  source
  - psud@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    It’s probably a U shaped curve where you can devote (or have to devote) significant time to exercise at very low incomes, but it becomes harder at working poor sort of levels, then easy again at a certain level above poverty
    
    source