Nutrition - Sugar:The Bitter Truth

[Siggie]

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Re: Nutrition - Sugar:The Bitter Truth

[Siggie]

Re: Nutrition - Sugar:The Bitter Truth

I posted a talk by physician and professor from a highly reputable university who supported what he said with research. This is a science forum afterall...

I've seen other YT videos from this user, psychetruth, and I have heard misinformation and myths being propagated by her. While she may have some useful suggestions, like cutting the sugary soft drinks, other things she says are completely unsubstantiated (e.g. the artificial sweetener stuff; the research does not bear out what she claims). The channel also discloses that this person advocates alternative medicine and that's a red flag for sure... I encourage people to be cautious; anyone can put up a video on YT.

[Christina]

Re: Nutrition - Sugar:The Bitter Truth

I posted a talk by physician and professor from a highly reputable university who supported what he said with research. This is a science forum afterall...

I've seen other YT videos from this user, psychetruth, and I have heard misinformation and myths being propagated by her. While she may have some useful suggestions, like cutting the sugary soft drinks, other things she says are completely unsubstantiated (e.g. the artificial sweetener stuff; the research does not bear out what she claims). The channel also discloses that this person advocates alternative medicine and that's a red flag for sure... I encourage people to be cautious; anyone can put up a video on YT.

Stevia. It has been around forever. It is a natural plant that is healthy to use with cooking or cold.
It is made into power form or liquid.
It is sweeter than sugar so a person has to use to taste.

Gloria Swanson, the famous 1920s actress never liked sugar.

There is a book that states the sugar cane plants in Hawai'i is healthy to
eat as it is.

Interesting, the original Armenian food was not with sugar, and other ingredients modern
people use.

Back centuries ago or even as far as 18th-19th c, recipes have only natural plants, ingredients,
and hence the food was better and there was no preservatives, the animals lived off the land and
the meat was healthy, as were the inhabitants.

[jgk3]

Re: Nutrition - Sugar:The Bitter Truth

My dad has grown stevia in his garden for 2 summers now, it's a wonderfully sweet plant and is a leaf of it is a great substitute to common sugar in coffee or tea.

Regarding peoples' diets in the 18th-19th centuries, I'm sure the food must've tasted better since people had to make things themselves (the average Armenian farmer did not go shopping or to restaurants), but they found their ways to preserve food... Pickles use vinegar and salt as a preservative, cured meats use acids and spices... Making jams by boiling fruits with sugar... all of these are considered preservatives.

Animals lived off the land and they were as healthy as the land was able to make them.
Same goes with the inhabitants. And the inhabitants didn't have a medical system like today's, they also did not have our present knowledge about risks associated with dietary choices, they had their own popular ideas about that subject and might've been right or wrong about all sorts of different stuff. For example, since sugars and salts were so important for preserving food, they were likely abundantly consumed, and I don't think at that time you had doctors waving their finger at them saying, "that's gonna raise your blood pressure, raise your risk of of diabetes, etc..." I think that mentality towards sugar, salt, fat, etc,,, is much more recent, starting in the 50s-60s (which is also why when we taste old fashioned cooking made by skillful grandmothers and greatgrandmothers we taste a heaven that is no longer commonly found in society!)

Like today, where it's expected that you'll have some old age disease when you get older, for them, heart attacks and organs not working properly were a normal part of life, except that these conditions were less treatable back then than they are today due to the technological disparity in medicine.

[Haykakan]

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I was watching this vid and found it very interesting but it cutts out when he starts talking about sport drinks. I hope to find the rest of it. Thank you for posting it.

[Siggie]

Re: Nutrition - Sugar:The Bitter Truth

I was watching this vid and found it very interesting but it cutts out when he starts talking about sport drinks. I hope to find the rest of it. Thank you for posting it.

That's odd. It's complete for me... Try watching it in YT instead of embedded maybe?

[jgk3]

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you know what's funny about this topic? For once KanadaHye isn't fighting with Siggie, because this is related to a government conspiracy!

Anyway, I watched the whole video and found it really informative Thanks for posting it.

[Siggie]

Re: Nutrition - Sugar:The Bitter Truth

Sure Jeff. I actually found a good article too. I will find it and share it. I haven't had a chance to read it all yet.

[jgk3]

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Thanks, I'd like to read it