They're not as separated as you'd like to think they are. When you taste something that is sugary & sweet it sends the signal to your brain which releases the dopamine to let you know that it tastes good and is safe to eat. The 60 minutes segment last night discussed and pointed this out.

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Hey dudes, check it out. A Cadbury cream egg cheesecake.

I just ate a whole one of these, and I'm still diabetes-free. Toxic my ass.

Exactly. Your brain tells you that you like it and want to eat it - because it contains sugar.

a 6-pack of grape flavored cold duck was my first drunk and my first 3-way kissing with 2 senior girls. :clap:

tis all good

but lets be honest, if people didn't get buzzed they wouldn't drink. There would be no point to drink alcohol instead of much tastier drinks.

The same with candy, if it didn't give you a sugar spike then you wouldn't eat it.

Yep, I'm in. I have been cutting sugar intake, fat intake and working out for the last 7 months. Transformed from pudgy to fairly lean. I had a trainer for the 1st few months and he said you can eat just cut out sweets. He's 47 and in great shape.

I'm polishing off some organic Chocolate Chip cookies as we speak..friggin' dopamine inducing' sugar high if i ever had one. ;)

I MUCH prefer the taste of a strong German beer when I eat red meat. It has nothing to do with being buzzed as I stop consuming them when the food is gone. It is strictly a flavor combination.

I ABSOLUTELY agree. I just don't get the reaction to this 60 Minutes piece when it's not only not new, it's 10-year old advice AT LEAST.

some people aren't paying attention and it's a surprise.

Hell ... there is a thread around here some place where Mecca is telling me how sugar isn't a problem and doesn't spike your blood sugar or some such bullshit.

sugar makes you feel false hungry so if you trying to lose weight the first things you should do is eliminate all simple sugars and increase exercise.

candy
cakes
sugar drinks (hell, they sneak sugar into most drinks)
white pasta
white bread
red sauces
ketchup
etc,etc

weight loss should come pretty naturally then

The food reward aspect is fairly new, especially in the public eye. Food reward is much more than eating because food tastes good; there is a neurological aspect to it, as explained in the last part of the 60 Minutes piece. Not everyone is susceptible to it, just like not everyone who goes to Vegas becomes addicted to gambling (there are similarities between food reward and gambling and drug addiction).

Here's a nice rundown on food reward.

Plain sugar all by itself isn't particularly rewarding. Sit down with a bag of white sugar and a spoon and you'll get tired of it pretty quickly. Put that sugar in water and add some flavoring and it is much easier to put it away. To make sugar really rewarding, combine it with fat (like pretty much all junk food).

A really good book on food reward is The End Of Overeating. It details how food reward works on our brains and how modern food manufacturers engineer their foods to take advantage of it so that we buy more and more of their products.

By the way, the cancer section on the 60 Minute piece is pretty weak. It's true that some cancers have more insulin receptors but the idea that insulin spikes cause the cancer to grow is still pretty controversial. The guy they talked to didn't offer any proof other than some computer animation.

Besides, sugar (as in sucrose and HFCS) is actually fairly low GI since it made up of about 50% fructose and fructose doesn't enter the blood stream as glucose (it's turned into triglycerides in the liver which are either used for fuel or stored as fat). If high blood sugar spikes are the problem, then reducing starch like potatoes and bread would make more sense than just looking at sugar since they convert more readily to glucose in the blood.

It took a 60 minutes special for Buck to learn that sugar is bad for you, and now he thinks he is a dietary expert.

Yep. The fact that simple carbs are detrimental to weight loss is self-evident to anybody that monitors caloric content. In fact, balanced nutrition in general is pretty obvious. Foods with complex carbs, good fats, and/or protein have lower calorie content in general and cellulose fiber has no calories at all. By contrasts, most bad fats and all simple carbs are simply loaded with easily-digestible calories.

Pretty much.

I've eaten nothing but Pixie sticks for 20 years and I feel perfectly fine!