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**petegz28** · 01-02-2015, 02:01 PM

Scientific team sounds the alarm on sugar as a source of disease

Is sugar making us sick? A team of scientists at the University of California in San Francisco believes so, and they're doing something about it. They launched an initiative to bring information on food and drink and added sugar to the public by reviewing more than 8,000 scientific papers that show a strong link between the consumption of added sugar and chronic diseases.

The common belief until now was that sugar just makes us fat, but it's become clear through research that it's making us sick. For example, there's the rise in fatty-liver disease, the emergence of Type 2 diabetes as an epidemic in children and the dramatic increase in metabolic disorders.

Laura Schmidt, a UCSF professor at the School of Medicine and the lead investigator on the project, SugarScience, said the idea is to make the findings comprehensible and clear to everyone. The results will be available to all on a website (SugarScience.org) and social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter.

Added sugars, Schmidt said, are sugars that don't occur naturally in foods. They are found in 74 percent of all packaged foods, have 61 names and often are difficult to decipher on food labels. Although the U.S. Food and Drug Administration requires food companies to list ingredients on packaging, the suggested daily values of natural and added sugars can't be found.

The FDA is considering a proposal to require food manufacturers to list information on sugars in the same way they do for fats, cholesterol, sodium, carbohydrates and protein. But because so much added sugar is dumped into so many products, one average American breakfast of cereal would likely exceed a reasonable daily limit.

"SugarScience shows that a calorie is not a calorie but rather that the source of a calorie determines how it's metabolized," said pediatric endocrinologist Robert Lustig, a member of the SugarScience team and the author of "Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease." Lustig said that more than half of the U.S. population is sick with metabolic syndrome, a group of risk factors for chronic diseases such as heart disease, diabetes and liver disease that are directly related to the excessive consumption of added sugars in the Western diet.

Figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show the category of heart attack/stroke as the leading cause of death in the United States. Every day, 2,200 Americans die of cardiovascular disease. That's about 800,000 a year, or one in three deaths.

The latest statistics from the American Diabetes Association show that 29.1 million Americans, or 9.3 percent, have diabetes. Of that number, 21 million have been diagnosed and 8.1 million have not, and the numbers continue to grow, according to the association.

It doesn't stop there. The American Liver Foundation says at least 30 million Americans, or 1 in 10, has one of 100 kinds of liver disease.

Clinicians widely believe that obesity is the cause of metabolic disease. Although it is a marker for these diseases, Lustig said, it's not the cause. "Too much sugar causes chronic metabolic disease in both fat and thin people," he said, "and instead of focusing on obesity as the problem, we should be focusing on our processed-food supply."

The average American consumes 19.5 teaspoons (78 grams) of sugar a day, substantially more than the amount recommended by the American Heart Association. The association sets these limits: 6 teaspoons (24 grams) for women, 9 teaspoons (36 grams) for men, and 3-6 teaspoons (12-24 grams) for children, depending on age. Just one 12-ounce soda contains 8 to 9 teaspoons (32-36 grams) of sugar.

Liquid sugar in sodas, energy drinks and sports drinks is the leading source of added sugar in the American diet. That represents 36 percent of all added sugars consumed, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. And because liquid does not include fiber, the body processes it quickly. That causes more sugar to be sent to the pancreas and liver than either can process properly, and the resulting buildup of sugar leads to heart disease, diabetes and liver disease.

Consuming too much sugar causes the level of glucose sugar in the bloodstream to increase. That, in turn, causes the pancreas to release high levels of insulin that cause the body to store extra calories as fat.

Too much insulin also affects the hormone leptin, a natural appetite suppressant that signals the brain to stop eating when full. But the imbalance of insulin levels caused by the intake of too much sugar causes lipid resistance, and the brain no longer gets that signal.

Another member of the SugarScience team, Dean Schillinger, is a professor of medicine at UCSF and a practicing primary care doctor at San Francisco General Hospital. He believes the overconsumption of added sugars is a social problem, not a problem of individual choice and freedom.

"People are becoming literate about the toxic effects of sugar," Schillinger said, "and have more understanding of the idea that high doses are bad for one's health." He sees evidence that those in a higher socioeconomic bracket are taking steps to limit intake of sugar when compared with poorer, less literate people.

Healthy food is expensive and less readily accessible in poorer neighborhoods, and because corn is so abundant and cheap, it is added to many food products. "Dumping high fructose corn syrup into cheap foods, sodas, sports drinks and energy drinks is toxic to the body, causing epidemic metabolic diseases and a serious health crisis," Schillinger said.

To underscore the scope of the problem, he pointed out that during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, 1,500 American soldiers lost a limb in combat. In that same period, 1.5 million people in the U.S. lost limbs to amputations from Type 2 diabetes, a preventable disease. "We have yet to mobilize for a public health war," he said, "but the time has come to do so."

Such a war would have to take on the root causes of the problem. As a nation, Schillinger added, we would need to look at our food policies, food pricing, availability of healthy foods, and the marketing being carried out by food and beverage industries to hook the public on unhealthy choices loaded with added sugar.

Frank Hu, a professor of nutrition and epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health, is not a SugarScience researcher, but he agreed that the amount of sugar consumed by the American public is too high. SugarScience, he said, is being helpful by bringing the information about added sugar to public attention.

"It's just about impossible," Hu said, "to know from food labels what kinds and amounts of sugars are in a product." That's why he thinks the FDA should require food companies to list those amounts on all food labels so people know what they're eating, in what amounts they're eating it, and what amounts are safe.

Food labels are important, Schillinger said, and they need to be revised, but the most important change needed is to make the healthier choice the easier choice.

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-0...ar-source.html

beach tribe · 01-03-2015, 01:11 PM

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Originally Posted by ThaVirus

I had read the other day that one cup of Coca Cola has enough sugar to make you throw up. The only reason you don't is that they put some type of chemical that prevents you from doing so.

Thankfully, I've never been particularly fond of soda.

Phosphoric acid.

Mmmmmmm, I gotta go get some coke now.

Cmd'r&Chief · 01-03-2015, 01:18 PM

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Originally Posted by beach tribe

I'm sorry, but if this planet is going to continue to sustain us in the future, people are going to have to ****ing die.
I know how that sounds.
But I just don't understand the world's infatuation with wanting to live until someone else has to wipe your ass.
Heart attack sounds good to me.
Just about everything that tastes good is bad for you, and everything that is fun is dangerous.
I'm gonna eat it, drink it, climb it, jump it, **** it, and enjoy it with my foot on the gas.
I'm gonna live for 60 years, give or take, when most people live for 30, exist for 20, ponder for 15 and die for 10..
And in 50 years the government is going to either have to start more wars, or find more creative ways to kill all you leaf eaters.

The infatuation with eternal life has existed for centuries. But yes, AIDS are delicious.

-King- · 01-03-2015, 01:19 PM

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Originally Posted by BucEyedPea

Link?

And did you read it right or are you confusing context? I notice lefties tend to twist words around to mean something other than posted.
In fact I posted the EXACT same thing you did about chocolate cake in your Post #51. Please read, instead of twisting my words to suit your antagonism.

I think that was on aspartame being bad for you. Between aspartame and sugar, sugar is the lesser of two evils. Moderation is fine though.

What in the **** are you talking about?
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BucEyedPea · 01-03-2015, 01:23 PM

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Originally Posted by -King-

What in the **** are you talking about?
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Figures. You really are clueless and pretty angry too.

-King- · 01-03-2015, 01:30 PM

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Originally Posted by BucEyedPea

Figures. You really are clueless and pretty angry too.

I didn't even quote you or address you in my original post. How did i twist your words if in wasnt replying to you. I didnt even know you had posted in this thread. So why are you even replying to me?

And you found a way to do the "lefty" political idiocy. The fact that you're bringing politics up in a thread about sugar should tell you that something is mentally off with you.
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beach tribe · 01-03-2015, 01:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Cmd'r&Chief

The infatuation with eternal life has existed for centuries. But yes, AIDS are delicious.

I think people are just scared to die.
Guess what......You Gonna DIE!!

We all gonna die.
So let's die on our feet
Hand round somethin' cold
mouthful of red meat

**lewdog** · 01-03-2015, 01:37 PM

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Originally Posted by BucEyedPea

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.

You missed the point of my comment. TW said he lost weight because he cut out sugar. What he simply did was also cut out calories by cutting out sugar. He'd have lost the same weight if he cut out the same amount of calories but from fat as well. And yes, he will be healthier to decrease the amount of sugar he is taking in because he is decreasing his total caloric intake and losing weight. I'm just stating that it doesn't just have to be from sugar. I think you agree with that as well?

We aren't really disagreeing that much Buc. I still think personal accountability is a huge issue. EVERYONE knows eating shit all day is bad for you. Let's stop blaming the food companies though as I do like Oreos every week and I've managed to have them and not be fat. It's not the food companies fault the guy buying the same Oreos I am is having a pack a week and getting fat.

Hammock Parties · 01-03-2015, 01:39 PM

The only thing "wrong" with sugar is that it is one of the most calorie-dense substances on the planet, and it doesn't satisfy you, it just makes you even more hungry.

That is why it is bad.

Now if you'll excuse me I feel like going to get a slice of cake from the grocery store. I will eat it and lose weight today.

beach tribe · 01-03-2015, 01:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Cmd'r&Chief

The infatuation with eternal life has existed for centuries. But yes, AIDS are delicious.

Probably should have left out the ****in' part
I grew up in rural TN.
If I did as much banging down here as I did there I probably would have teh AIDS.

beach tribe · 01-03-2015, 01:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Count Alex's Losses

The only thing "wrong" with sugar is that it is one of the most calorie-dense substances on the planet, and it doesn't satisfy you, it just makes you even more hungry.

That is why it is bad.

Now if you'll excuse me I feel like going to get a slice of cake from the grocery store. I will eat it and lose weight today.

You can do that when you're not a fat lazy POS, ammirite?

Get up and move around tubbies.

**lewdog** · 01-03-2015, 01:46 PM

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Originally Posted by beach tribe

You can do that when you're not a fat lazy POS, ammirite?

Get up and move around tubbies.

Well that's a good point too. The reward center in the brain that is active when we eat is close to the same response we get when we exercise. Feel good working out, make changes in your body and you'll use that rationale brain to decide to eat less shit because you like looking better. Not to mention if you workout with intensity, you can eat more calories per day to maintain your weight than someone who is sedentary.

I was eating 3500+ calories a day just to maintain my weight back when I was Olympic lifting because the lifting was so intense that I was just burning through calories in a day.

ThaVirus · 01-03-2015, 01:46 PM

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Originally Posted by beach tribe

I think people are just scared to die.

Guess what......You Gonna DIE!!

We all gonna die.

So let's die on our feet

Hand round somethin' cold

mouthful of red meat

I'm scared to shit of death, I'll be totally honest.

BWillie · 01-03-2015, 01:50 PM

Everything you eat can kill you in some form or another

ThaVirus · 01-03-2015, 01:52 PM

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Originally Posted by BWillie

Everything you eat can kill you in some form or another

Go ahead and down some battery acid then, if it's all the same to you.

**SAUTO** · 01-03-2015, 01:53 PM

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Originally Posted by ThaVirus

I'm scared to shit of death, I'll be totally honest.

Why?

01-02-2015, 02:01 PM
petegz28 Supporter Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Olathe, Ks Casino cash: $-895873	This just in: Sugar is bad for you Scientific team sounds the alarm on sugar as a source of disease Is sugar making us sick? A team of scientists at the University of California in San Francisco believes so, and they're doing something about it. They launched an initiative to bring information on food and drink and added sugar to the public by reviewing more than 8,000 scientific papers that show a strong link between the consumption of added sugar and chronic diseases. The common belief until now was that sugar just makes us fat, but it's become clear through research that it's making us sick. For example, there's the rise in fatty-liver disease, the emergence of Type 2 diabetes as an epidemic in children and the dramatic increase in metabolic disorders. Laura Schmidt, a UCSF professor at the School of Medicine and the lead investigator on the project, SugarScience, said the idea is to make the findings comprehensible and clear to everyone. The results will be available to all on a website (SugarScience.org) and social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter. Added sugars, Schmidt said, are sugars that don't occur naturally in foods. They are found in 74 percent of all packaged foods, have 61 names and often are difficult to decipher on food labels. Although the U.S. Food and Drug Administration requires food companies to list ingredients on packaging, the suggested daily values of natural and added sugars can't be found. The FDA is considering a proposal to require food manufacturers to list information on sugars in the same way they do for fats, cholesterol, sodium, carbohydrates and protein. But because so much added sugar is dumped into so many products, one average American breakfast of cereal would likely exceed a reasonable daily limit. "SugarScience shows that a calorie is not a calorie but rather that the source of a calorie determines how it's metabolized," said pediatric endocrinologist Robert Lustig, a member of the SugarScience team and the author of "Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease." Lustig said that more than half of the U.S. population is sick with metabolic syndrome, a group of risk factors for chronic diseases such as heart disease, diabetes and liver disease that are directly related to the excessive consumption of added sugars in the Western diet. Figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show the category of heart attack/stroke as the leading cause of death in the United States. Every day, 2,200 Americans die of cardiovascular disease. That's about 800,000 a year, or one in three deaths. The latest statistics from the American Diabetes Association show that 29.1 million Americans, or 9.3 percent, have diabetes. Of that number, 21 million have been diagnosed and 8.1 million have not, and the numbers continue to grow, according to the association. It doesn't stop there. The American Liver Foundation says at least 30 million Americans, or 1 in 10, has one of 100 kinds of liver disease. Clinicians widely believe that obesity is the cause of metabolic disease. Although it is a marker for these diseases, Lustig said, it's not the cause. "Too much sugar causes chronic metabolic disease in both fat and thin people," he said, "and instead of focusing on obesity as the problem, we should be focusing on our processed-food supply." The average American consumes 19.5 teaspoons (78 grams) of sugar a day, substantially more than the amount recommended by the American Heart Association. The association sets these limits: 6 teaspoons (24 grams) for women, 9 teaspoons (36 grams) for men, and 3-6 teaspoons (12-24 grams) for children, depending on age. Just one 12-ounce soda contains 8 to 9 teaspoons (32-36 grams) of sugar. Liquid sugar in sodas, energy drinks and sports drinks is the leading source of added sugar in the American diet. That represents 36 percent of all added sugars consumed, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. And because liquid does not include fiber, the body processes it quickly. That causes more sugar to be sent to the pancreas and liver than either can process properly, and the resulting buildup of sugar leads to heart disease, diabetes and liver disease. Consuming too much sugar causes the level of glucose sugar in the bloodstream to increase. That, in turn, causes the pancreas to release high levels of insulin that cause the body to store extra calories as fat. Too much insulin also affects the hormone leptin, a natural appetite suppressant that signals the brain to stop eating when full. But the imbalance of insulin levels caused by the intake of too much sugar causes lipid resistance, and the brain no longer gets that signal. Another member of the SugarScience team, Dean Schillinger, is a professor of medicine at UCSF and a practicing primary care doctor at San Francisco General Hospital. He believes the overconsumption of added sugars is a social problem, not a problem of individual choice and freedom. "People are becoming literate about the toxic effects of sugar," Schillinger said, "and have more understanding of the idea that high doses are bad for one's health." He sees evidence that those in a higher socioeconomic bracket are taking steps to limit intake of sugar when compared with poorer, less literate people. Healthy food is expensive and less readily accessible in poorer neighborhoods, and because corn is so abundant and cheap, it is added to many food products. "Dumping high fructose corn syrup into cheap foods, sodas, sports drinks and energy drinks is toxic to the body, causing epidemic metabolic diseases and a serious health crisis," Schillinger said. To underscore the scope of the problem, he pointed out that during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, 1,500 American soldiers lost a limb in combat. In that same period, 1.5 million people in the U.S. lost limbs to amputations from Type 2 diabetes, a preventable disease. "We have yet to mobilize for a public health war," he said, "but the time has come to do so." Such a war would have to take on the root causes of the problem. As a nation, Schillinger added, we would need to look at our food policies, food pricing, availability of healthy foods, and the marketing being carried out by food and beverage industries to hook the public on unhealthy choices loaded with added sugar. Frank Hu, a professor of nutrition and epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health, is not a SugarScience researcher, but he agreed that the amount of sugar consumed by the American public is too high. SugarScience, he said, is being helpful by bringing the information about added sugar to public attention. "It's just about impossible," Hu said, "to know from food labels what kinds and amounts of sugars are in a product." That's why he thinks the FDA should require food companies to list those amounts on all food labels so people know what they're eating, in what amounts they're eating it, and what amounts are safe. Food labels are important, Schillinger said, and they need to be revised, but the most important change needed is to make the healthier choice the easier choice. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-0...ar-source.html
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