How bad is sugar and artifial flavor?

[Nocturnal]

It's better to eat things like sugar, butter, etc than to eat the replacements. Things like splenda are very bad for you, your body has a lot of trouble breaking them down.

Also, a lot of things that don't have sugar or fat are highly processed and the result is carbs with a high GI index. Those are bad unless you want to get fat quickly.

In short, eat a balanced, natural diet.

 

[Double]

no bodybuilder should eat butter. personally i use philadelphia balance for sandwiches which has much less fat and protein.
and industrial sugar is sure not better than MRP's

 

[B9]

what's the harm in sugar? it's carbs like pasta is, just broken down to sucrose. all of it will eventually be broken down into glucose. sugar just faster.

 

[Double]

yeh, the anti-fruit juice fraction has become quiet

 

[Lifeforce]

Originally posted by WesCottII
oops. Typo, i stand corrected. By pancrea, i assume you mean pancreas? :]

By the way, i've meant to say this for ages, that post you added to Pook's fifteen lessons was awesome.

oops. Typo, i stand corrected. :]

Thanks man! Glad you enjoyed reading it.

 

[fatkins]

Originally posted by WORKEROUTER
Why dont you instead name one nutritional benefit of consuming sugar.

Insulin spike, post workout.

 

[fatkins]

Originally posted by WORKEROUTER
When I say "sugar," I mainly mean it as an additive, not sugars naturally found in whole foods such as fruit.

Post workout getting a spike must be hell just eating "whole foods with sugar naturally found in them.

 

[Double]

still, no one of the dissacharids are soooo bad can answer my question, they only can repeat what they hear in common bodybuilding articles

 

[fatkins]

Originally posted by Double
still, no one of the dissacharids are soooo bad can answer my question, they only can repeat what they hear in common bodybuilding articles

If dextrose etc... have almost the same chemical structure as glucose how does it harm us if ingested at a reasonable amount.

 

[topher]

found a highly informative article about sugar written by a doctor. it is a long read but well worth it.

http://www.thedoctorwithin.com/articles/sugar_thief_life.html

 

[Derek Flint]

Refined Sugar is probably the worst thing you can eat.