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By: Episode #80: What You Don't Know About Sugar | Ben Greenfield Fitness

Episode #80: What You Don't Know About Sugar | Ben Greenfield Fitness — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:56:27 +0000

[...] You may have read her article (which was featured at BenGreenfieldFitness.com last month) entitled “143 Reasons Sugar Ruins Your Health”, which was an excerpt from Nancy’s shocking but well-researched book “Suicide by [...]

By: Dan Popovici

Dan Popovici — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 08:22:26 +0000

I think it should be made clear what you mean with sugar. Do you just mean white sugar? All refined carbohydrates have the same effect be in white rice, white flour, white sugar, high fructose corn syrup etc.

I also recommend the book “Good Calories, Bad Calories” its a wonderful read but it has > 500 pages. It also contains a great summery of the conclusions on page 454.

Dan

By: Ben Greenfield

Ben Greenfield — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 16:47:14 +0000

Ace, I’ll be bringing ALL these comments to Nancy’s attention during my interview with her…

By: ace

ace — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 15:41:50 +0000

although there are only few facts that are true in this list, the fact that nancy uses the word “can” lead to, “can” cause, etc in 90% on the listed items, this means that there is NOT enough research or studies to back up what she is claiming.
for instance:
13. Sugar CAN lead to chromium deficiency.
and
16. Sugar causes copper deficiency.

in #13, well it’s not a 100% fact. in #16, it is supposedly true.

ben: i’d be curious if you could forward this to her, and listen to her in january’s podcast.
thanks!

By: Terry Paul

Terry Paul — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 05:24:03 +0000

I do believe you have ‘one word’ that should be eliminated from almost everyone of your reasons for for not eating sugar…. That is the word “CAN”

I believe it is more or an absolute than a maybe.

Thanks for sharing it.

Terry Paul
Terra-Culture.org

By: Lance

Lance — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 00:19:20 +0000

Glad to hear that she will be on the podcast because I would like to hear more. I read this list on the Hammer Nutrition website and find some of her claims a bit hard to believe,since correlation does not mean causation, but I don’t feel like digging through the research myself.

By: Ben Greenfield

Ben Greenfield — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 23:09:42 +0000

Bear in mind that the author of this article will be coming on the show in January…but I am not the author!!!

By: Tommy Nosek

Tommy Nosek — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 21:42:51 +0000

Ben,
Love the podcast, I look forward every week for the cast to come out. I do agree, very much, with the health affects on sugar. Unfortunately, I have to disagree with you in a lot of what’s listed. For example, #25, “Sugar can lead to alcoholism.” This is referenced from a 1977 study? Many may argue it’s…that leads to alcoholism. If anyone reads the references, they’ll see that some are 20, 30, and over 40 years old.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 21:31:43 +0000

On the one hand, all things taken in moderation while not necessarily good for you at least won’t do irreparable harm. On the other hand I’m not sure it’s possible to consume sugar “in moderation”, not in the standard “Western diet”. There are so many sugars under different names (sucrose, glucose, fructose, corn syrup and HFCS) that portion control is essentially impossible. For a in-depth explanation of many of the “143″ try Gary Taubes’ “Good Calories, Bad Calories”. You may never want to eat sugar again.

By: Christina

Christina — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 21:27:05 +0000

Hi Ben. I was excited when I received the email link to this list. I’ve been completely free of unnatural sugars since Halloween, and I feel great! However, I really have to question many of the statements in your list. The ones that I really have to disagree with deal with sugar and juvenile delinquency. I’m a teacher of young children, and have studied juvenile behavior for years. While I agree that sugar is not good for anyone, I have to disagree that it leads to misbehavior, delinquency, and ADD (a term completely over-used) in children. Most misbehaviors and forms of delinquency are caused by parenting, societal factors, and kids being kids, not sugar. In fact, if a child or parent ever blames poor choice behavior on sugar, I’d have to laugh.

Aside from all that, thank you for your hard work and dedication to helping people better their lives! While I can’t agree with the sugar-related childhood behavior statements, I do appreciate the advice that you give related to health and triathlon training.

Merry Christmas!

By: bill

bill — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 20:14:49 +0000

OMG

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:29:30 +0000

thanks, that was really sweet.

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Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:13:41 +0000

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By: Christine

Christine — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:24:27 +0000

Ben G.
I’m not drinking hot chocolate as I read your post, but eating a magnesium rich piece of fudge ! I’m printing this out and putting it on the fridge and asking my kids to read it when they ask for sugary foods. Hopefully they’ll loose their desire by the time they get to #143! Take a look at National Geographic “Human Footprint” documentary to get a visual of how much sugar (eggs, milk, etc) Americans consume. It’s too much & at the expense of other nutrients. I would have to read all the studies to see what amounts of sugar & what types lead to all these problems, so I agree with the other Ben regarding causal relationships. Maybe Dr. Appleton could clarify that.

By: Ben Greenfield

Ben Greenfield — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:54:47 +0000

Ben, we’re going to have Dr. Nancy Appleton on the show in a few weeks…would you mind if I read her your statement and got her thoughts?

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:12:32 +0000

I think this article is silly. Of course sugar isn’t good for you, but with so many variables, i don’t we can say sugar exclusively causes all those things. Basically sugar is behind everything that could happen in your body. Sorry, but this information is not helpful.