What I don't get is why it took them decades to figure this out. Why have they been giving us sugar substitutes without understanding what they have been doing to us? Why were these approved for use in the first place?

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[–] 16 points 9 months ago (14 children)
  • [+] -10 points 9 months ago (13 children)

    It is if you don’t eat too much

    But aspartame will literally damage the DNA in your colon because it’s inherently genotoxic to our cells

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  • [–] 16 points 9 months ago

    The DNA damage comes from the formaldehyde that the body produces when metabolizing aspartame, but guess what? The body makes formaldehyde anyway, just from its natural metabolic processes. As long as you don't consume too much it's fine.

    The problem is over-consumption, which is the basis of having a consumer economy. If everyone ate less the food industry would collapse. They need us to overeat and if we ever stopped they'd have to reconcile with the fact that they can't just keep growing their profits infinitely. Plus, when we overeat, they can make even more money by treating the sicknesses it causes. Win/Win!

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  • [+] -12 points 9 months ago (11 children)

    Don't consume either. Artificial sweeteners are UPFs and sugar in all its forms have no place in the human diet.

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  • [–] 25 points 9 months ago (9 children)

    If you remove sugar in all its forms from your diet then you'd better forget about eating any plants whatsoever. Cellulose is sugar, carbs are sugar. Where do you think we get our energy from?

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  • [+] -10 points 9 months ago (8 children)

    Amino acids and fat. Why do we need sugar? It's not an essential nutrient.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    Lipids (fat) also gets converted into glucose before your body can use it. If we're cutting out sugar in all forms then that counts too.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    That is also my understanding. We needn't consume any exogenous sugars in any form, since the body is able to make all it needs.

    If we’re cutting out sugar in all forms then that counts too.

    That's nothing near to what I said. To reiterate my statement, there is no requirement for sugar in the human diet.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (3 children)

    Your previous comment definitely says "sugar in all its forms"

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  • [–] -1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Yes, in the human diet. Fats are not a form of sugar.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    Except it is, fat is how we store sugars. Lipids are made from glucose. It is sugar just in another form. If you eat glucose it gets turned into lipids and if you eat lipids it gets turned into glucose. All of our energy comes from turning food into glucose. You couldn't survive if you didn't have some form of sugar in your diet.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    I'm not sure what to say to that. Are you asserting that fat is a form of sugar? I don't believe that to be case. One of the obvious differences is that sugars are water soluble, but fats are not.

    Triglycerides do contain a glycerol backbone, but aren't sugars. In any case I will revise my statement. Don't eat carbohydrates, get your nutrition from protein and the associated fat.

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    All of our energy comes from turning food into glucose.

    In lipolysis, our bodies break down triglycerides into both fatty acids and glycerol. Most of our cells are also able to metabolize fatty acids for energy, not just glucose.

    You couldn’t survive if you didn’t have some form of sugar in your diet.

    Unless we conflate fat with sugars, it is perfectly possible to survive (and indeed thrive!) without eating any form of sugar at all. Again, the human body is capable of making all the glucose it needs.

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