Sugar: Is it bad for kids’ learning and behavior?
Important Points: Sugar Behavior Learning Brain Memory Sugar: Is it bad for kids’ learning and behavior? The effect of sugar intake on children’s behavior is a hotly debated topic in pediatrics. Parents and educators often contend that sugar and other carbohydrate ingestion can dramatically impact children’s behavior, particularly their activity levels. Physicians, on the other hand, have […]
The Impact Of Sugar On Mental Health
When enjoying your tasty donut, the last thing on your mind your long-term mental health. However, there is plenty of evidence to suggest that you should be thinking of just that. Most of us know the harm of too much sugar on our physical health. It can cause obesity, wide-spread inflammation, and poor dental health […]
Could Chronic Pain Patients Be Could Substitution Sugar For Opioids….
Could sugar self-substitution for opioids in our patient’s be leading to insulin resistance, obesity, T2DM? In an experiment done on mini-pigs, they found that sugar can affect the brain’s reward system in a similar “manner similar to that of drugs of abuse” Sugar’s impact on the brain’s reward system boils down to how it affects […]
Sugar vs. Fat
In the 1960s, the sugar industry paid three Harvard scientists to publish a review of research on sugar vs. fat and their effects on heart disease. The Sugar Association paid the scientists the equivalent of about $50,000 today, cherry-picked the research included in the review; resulting in a biased article published in the New England […]
Sugar, Addiction, and Obesity
Sugar addiction, especially glucose, leads to obesity because of how it is metabolized. Sucrose (table sugar) is a disaccharide made of 50% fructose and 50% glucose. Sucrose is metabolized primarily in the small intestine, releasing equal parts glucose and fructose. Glucose causes insulin release and is rapidly cleared from the bloodstream by insulin-dependent channels. Fructose […]
Sugar, vegetable oil, and grain
Sugar, vegetable oils, and grains — in my more than 20 years of experience, I have never seen a type 2 diabetic patient that didn’t have this unholy trifecta. The root cause of the obesity, prediabetes, and type 2 diabetes epidemic is this combination of acellular carbohydrates, industrial seed oils, and refined carbohydrates.
Intentional and Unlabeled Increase in Fructose
There has been an intentional, unlabeled increase in manufacturing fructose, which is having an impact on weight and leading to the obesity epidemic. Soda drinkers in particular are consuming more fructose than people realize. Manufactured high-fructose corn syrup contains a ratio of 55:45 fructose to glucose. High-fructose corn syrup was invented in the early 1970s […]
WHY WE DON’T COUNT CALORIES
Instead of calorie counting, practice hara hachi bu, Confucian teaching, that instructs people to eat until they are 80 percent full. “Eat until you are eight parts (out of ten) full” or “belly 80 percent full.” Simple changes to your eating patterns or the environment will dramatically increase the joy of food. First, eat more […]
The role of fructose
Many people think that sugar is sugar, but there are different types and sugar comes in many forms. Compared with glucose, fructose plays a primary role in development of metainflammation, obesity, prediabetes, and type 2 diabetes Fructose directly increases de novo lipogenesis, promotes dyslipidemia, decreases insulin sensitivity, increases visceral adiposity, and stimulates the reward center, similar to […]