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Originally Posted by Silock
Key word: EXCESS calorie consumption.
This demonization of food and certain food groups is abso****inglutely OUT OF CONTROL.
I'll post this again, simply because it needs to be read. Even though it's mainly focused on HFCS, there's a lot of good info about other sugars and carbohydrates, as well.
http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/88/6/1716S.full
There is room in a person's diet for anything they want to have, whether that's soda, ice cream, fruit juice, pixie sticks or orange marmalade. It's all about portion control and understanding how these foods fit in to the larger picture of one's diet. I have serious issues with how this article/thread is worded because it assumes that soda is inherently bad for you and if fruit juice is as bad as soda, then it's inherently bad, too. That's just not true.
Overconsumption is bad. That's the devil. It's not the X food/drink.
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The idea that all calories are created equal is not true. You don't get type 2 diabetes from eating too much steak.
Different types of calories are metabolized differently. Sugar intake impacts your blood sugar, given enough time can cause insulin resistance, which is the fast track to obesity. Limiting the proportion of your sugar and carb intake absolutely has an effect on your health, even with calories being equal.