**** yeah! Twin Cherries too FTMFW!

DOTS are my second fave

The average American has no idea how important diet is to weight loss and body composition.

You can neutralize like 8 hours of working out with one shitty ass meal.

According to that movie, a rat addicted to cocaine and to sugar will choose to get his sugar fix first.

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/ass...-story-top.jpg

Link?

Just looking up lewdog's claim
 

Hmmm inflammation and exercise—sounds like apples and oranges dog. Not the same thing.

Exercise and Chronic Inflammation

Systemic inflammation is a critical component in the development of cardiovascular disease. Individuals with chronic inflammation often have high levels of C-reactive protein -- a biomarker that correlates with the amount of inflammation in the body. Elevated C-reactive protein levels are significantly reduced in individuals who engage in moderate to intense physical activity compared to those who do not exercise.

Process of Inflammation

Youi can separate inflammation into two categories, acute inflammation which occurs over a short period of time and chronic inflammation which happens over longer time frames. Acute inflammation happens immediately following an injury. Blood flow will increase in the area around the injury, and fluid, blood proteins and white blood cells will move into the tissue. Inflammation is generally part of a healthy immune response; however, sometimes this process becomes uncontrolled. This may lead to a state of chronic inflammation that can trigger the development of diseases like atherosclerosis and cancer.

http://www.livestrong.com/article/45...n-in-the-body/

Sugar is now being found to be a factor in cardiovascular disease—less so fat. ( healthy fat that is). Plus sugar, as well as artificial sweeteners, make the body more acidic. PH balance is important.

This.

You don't need a link for that, it's how the body works. And you clearly linked an article that states exercise causes inflammation. So does eating sugar. How much you eat of it determine how long the inflammation process lasts, kind of like how long you workout for or the intensity at which you do effects how long the inflammation lasts. It is somewhat similar. Nothing should be done to the max. Whether that's eating sugar or working out.

I do both. Anyone that says they avoid sugar altogether is completely lying. In fact, our body does need some amount of sugar to function at it's best. Insulin is an anabolic component in the body. I workout to build muscle. Causing an insulin spike post workout to increase the glycogen re-absorption and protein into the muscles post workout is ideal. I do this with a handful of candy or milk. It's not a huge spike like many think but it's done and done for a reason. Sugar will not cause issues for you unless you are just eating shit all day.

That's simply because you are eating less calories. Sugary drinks can be a big culprit because they provide no nutritional value but take up way too much of a person's calorie intake for the day. Remove the 400-500 calories you might be getting from these drinks and replace with diet drinks or water and you'll lose weight. It's not because of the sugar.

It's been mentioned before but rat studies are pretty much worthless. The rat judges it's eating based on it's brain's/body's reward response as it cannot rationalize. And while I love pizza and Oreos as much as the next guy, my brain is a human brain with rational thought and I know the consequences of eating an entire pizza everyday will make me fat. Therefore I choose other foods, since I can also read about nutrition values of food and make informed decisions.

We are humans, we CAN and SHOULD make rational decisions about food. We SHOULD also stop blaming food companies when the average American consumer won't take the time to be even slightly educated about food or how to even read of food label.

Don't blame the food companies? This guy works for ****ing Nabisco

There's nothing wrong with asking you to back up your claim.

Then you need to re read it. There's more to your oversimplified statement.Quit ignoring that to make a strawman argument.

Systemic inflammation is a critical component in the development of cardiovascular disease. Individuals with chronic inflammation often have high levels of C-reactive protein -- a biomarker that correlates with the amount of inflammation in the body. Elevated C-reactive protein levels are significantly reduced in individuals who engage in moderate to intense physical activity compared to those who do not exercise...

Inflammation is generally part of a healthy immune response; however, sometimes this process becomes uncontrolled. This may lead to a state of chronic inflammation that can trigger the development of diseases like atherosclerosis and cancer.

Yes it is now linked to heart disease too.

Again, you need to re read what I posted even earlier. I said sugar needs to be moderated.

And I'd add there's more to sugar than inflammation issues.

What if said such sugar is poured on you?

Then is it bad?

Really? So if you eat 400-500 calories of cake and ice cream or cookies it's also not because of the sugar?

The excess calories come from the sugar in these drinks unless it's a cream based sugary drink then it comes from both.

Not all humans can rationalize or well enough. If we did, we wouldn't have an epidemic of obesity in this country not to mention adult diabetes.