Dietitians Debunk 10 Sugar Myths | Debunked 

One thing of note is that even if sugar isn't as problematic as many people believe it is (and that's a big if), the sugar industry was also involved in many misleading campaigns to shift blame for the source of an unhealthy lifestyle. This includes the "too much salt is bad for you" (true, but oversimplifies things), and the "low-fat= good" campaign, since sugar is added to replace the fats that were removed, and causes even more problems.

I like that they recognized the lack of access to healthy options and presented alternatives too. :)

Does anyone else feel like this video was funded by the sugar industry? "Sugar doesn't cause diabetes" "Sugar isn't addictive" "Sugar isn't bad for you" "Honey and Agave aren't better alternatives"

After being diagnosed with Type-2 diabetes I began researching about sugar and carbs. I found several doctors on You Tube who claim that sugar is a primary cause of metabolic disease and that Type 2 diabetes is reversible. For 6 months I eliminated all sugar possible from my diet. My blood sugar dropped from average 180 to 110, my A1c went from 7.5 to 6.2 and I lost 30 pounds. I also felt great. I reduced carbs but did not eliminate them. The body creates glucogen from fats and carbs so you can eliminate nearly all sugar from your diet and still maintain safe sugar levels as long as you are still eating carbs and (natural) fats. I did after a time start introducing more carbs back into my diet since I was still losing weight but I have to say that eliminating almost all sugar from my diet did me a lot more benefit than harm. There is also new research that, more and more is pointing to sugar as the primary fuel for cancers.

The problem with these types of discussions is that the term "sugar" can refer to different things in different contexts. In chemistry sugar mainly refers to all carbohydrates, be it monosaccharides (glucose, fructose and galactose), disaccharides (sucrose, maltose and lactose) or polysaccharides (starches, dextrins, cellulose). So, in that sense both table sugar and vegetables are "sugars". But we know that they are different. Table sugar is simple sugar but vegetables are complex sugars or complex carbohydrates which, yes, has the simple sugars but also fiber (polysaccharide) which makes their digestion processes (primarily in terms of time and load) very different. But an even more important distinction to make is that between glucose and fructose. Both of them are monosaccharides and thus, "sugars" and in terms of their chemical composition are just isomers to each other. But they are VERY different. Fructose is almost twice as sweet as glucose. While glucose can be metabolized by every single cell in the human body fructose can only be metabolized by the liver. While glucose stimulates insulin on consumption, fructose does not. While glucose circulates in the blood, fructose does not. So, "blood sugar" means "blood glucose". Therefore, a tablespoon of table sugar and a tablespoon of glucose will not have the same effect on your blood sugar because they are chemically different things. Consequently, if we take rice and table sugar which have the same amount of "sugars" while rice is mostly glucose table sugar is sucrose (half glucose, half fructose). They are very different. Say, you consume 120 calories of glucose or sucrose. In case of glucose 24 calories will go to the liver while the other 96 calories will go to the other parts of the body. From the same 120 calories of sucrose 72 calories (12 calories from the glucose part + all 60 calories of fructose) will hit the liver. Additionally, while glucose can be converted to glycogen for later use, fructose can't be. So, not only are we overloading one single organ at once we're also not giving it the chance to store it as a desirable back up source for carbs(glycogen) and forcing the liver to turn it into liver fat. Now, this will happen when you really overload it and that won't normally happen from fruits and vegetables. Because when you look at the fructose content of fruits and vegetables they are not nearly as high as that in processed foods where the sugar has been added in high quantities to make the foods more palatable, addictive and less satiating. Which makes you literally stuff all of that and still want more. This is mainly because of the sweetness of fructose and it being low satiating compared to glucose. This is exactly why our ancestors had so little access to fructose. Firstly, we don't need them at all (they are not an essential nutrient) and we should be having them in very low doses. And in terms of diabetes (oh boy it's another long rabbit hole). But long story short, type 2 diabetes is the state when your body is so resistant to insulin that the pancreas is making every bit of insulin it can to keep the blood sugar down but it's still not enough. The most common treatment is to just inject more insulin. And what that does is it keeps the blood sugar in control for a while but the resistance soon catches up and now you need more insulin. Then you increase the dose and the resistance increases again. Rinse and repeat. The disease is not treated and it only gets worse. The cause of this wrong treatment to be the norm is trying to treat the symptom and not the disease. Blood sugar rising is only a symptom it's not the disease. The disease is insulin resistance. And that is multifactorial, Diet, sleep, exercise, genetics etc. However, currently, the diabetes epidemic is mainly being driven by processed foods and more specifically refined carbs. For glucose, it's obvious. Refined starches cause tremendous fluctuations in insulin levels and since it's less satiating than non-refined sources(vegetables, fruits) you eat a lot of it before you feel full. So, too much insulin production leads to acute hyperinsulinemia and when this happens every single day it becomes chronic and your body starts to get resistant. GTT tests won't show anything abnormal since blood glucose will be kept under control but your insulin is going out of whack. A proper kraft test can diagnose insulin resistance way before you get full blown diabetes. Now, fructose gets a free pass here since it doesn't make your body release insulin on consumption. So, it can't possibly cause insulin resistance. Or can it. You see even though fructose does not affect insulin levels in the short-term it does in the long term. Continuing from the previous discussion of how all of fructose goes to the liver and a lot of it (and you do eat a lot of it when you do) it will force your liver to turn it into fat through a process called de novo lipogenesis. When this keeps going on everyday your liver fills up, followed by the other parts of your viscera. It's called visceral fat. And visceral fat can directly cause insulin resistance as your body now releases extra insulin to help out the suffocating liver. And you know the rest. So, the point is that in discussions about sugar the distinction between Glucose and Fructose is extremely significant. The distinction between the sources of sugar is also important but people usually talk about that. What they don't talk about is how different glucose and fructose are.

Sugar is bad for you Dieticians: no (but yes)

"Sugar is not addictive" There is a reason why my weight-loss started, AFTER I stopped visiting my dietitian.

Based on the definiton of addiction that these two provided, cocaine isn't addictive, I've done it multiple times, (many many months apart) without any withdrawal effects and with no carving to get more of. From my personal experience I would say that sugar is much more addictive then cocaine or any other drugs that I've tried and I've tried many. If I see anything that's high in sugar it's only matter of time before I'll go and eat it. I never get "tricked" into buying cocaine, but I've often gotten "tricked" into buying very sugary stuff.

I feel like they're intentionally arbitrarily choosing when to understand sugar as "glucose that your body breaks down food into" and "white sugar that has no nutritional benefit besides straight calories" and their choices sometimes misunderstand the heart behind the "myths." sugar is NOT just a basic molecule - that's just one of it's definitions. the type of definition they address isn't consistent across the myths they address. smh.

I think one of the big issues with this is that when a lot of people talk about "sugar," they mean added sugar or refined sugar. The experts here refer to the scientific concept of sugar, but sometimes switch it out with the colloquial concept. I assume that's a problem with editing, but it that some of the things they talk about are more confusing or not totally accurate

About a year ago, I went into a Ketogenic/IF regime ( I am 58 years old), with special emphasis on cutting ALL refined sugars, high fructose fruits, and all vegetable omega 6 oils. I lost 65 pounds and I was able to lower my IC glucose index from 5.6 to 5.25. I was also able to normalize my liver AST/ALT count.

I have been doing Keto off and on for the last year and I am at my lowest weight since high school. Grad of 1995. I did stop keto just to test and went back to the "Standard American Diet" and felt like crap. Cutting out sugar was one of the best things I have done. When they state you have to have sugar for energy they are full of crap. I also cut out all processed foods and only eat foods that are 5 ingredients or less. I have plenty of energy and all my blood work comes back in great numbers. I have to disagree with a good portion of this video. But what I do is not for everyone but it does work for me.

As my mother taught me many years ago: Everything in moderation. I use that in all aspects of life.

I cut out added and refined sugar from my diet 40 years ago. I no longer crave it. I get my sugar from whole foods that are not over prepared. I eat small meals frequently and avoid overeating in any given meal. This has helped me to keep my weight down and has helped me to maintain a regular sleep schedule.

"Sugar is not addictive." "When you get a sugar crash you just need to eat more." These are very questionable statements.

Fructose can only be metabolized by the liver, so in large quantities (high fructose corn syrup) it's far worse than normal table sugar.

Is sugar bad? Experts: Yesn't

As someone who has struggled with sugar addiction, it is real. Mind you, this does not necessarily mean it is addictive to every person, like say heroin or cocaine would be (I’m not up on the latest science, so it may or may not be). But I would say from personal experience it is at least akin to alcohol, etc, or behavioral addictions like shopping or gambling, gaming, etc, which may be highly addictive to some people while others can enjoy them moderately. This becomes especially problematic in people with eating disorders too (which I also had) - as people aren’t generally bingeing on green beans and whole grains.

I feel like they completely glossed over their own definition of addiction to say sugar isn't addictive. Anything that produces dopamine can be addictive. If you get pleasure from shopping then you begin using it as a coping method and it can become addictive. Which then leads me to believe that perhaps they are playing a bit fast and loose with their other terms.

3:52 wait.. where is the research that says ketosis increases inflammation and brain fog? I've heard from countless people who had the opposite results. And I definitely find energy levels more stable the less sugar I eat. Not on keto FTR. Just not aware of any evidence at all that there's a harmful effect below a certain level of sugar consumption. None. There _is_ research that indicates the human brain preferentially consumes ketones over glucose as well.

What I would prefer for these videos is if the experts rephrased the statements because they're typically so oversimplified that the answer is either "it depends" or you can answer it either way and you just pick one, technically correctly, but leaving enough room to dismiss the argument.

You should write a guide about how to misrepresent arguments. Every single one of your points has nothing to do with the argument you are trying to disprove.

If only the information in this video were true! Sorry guys, continuous research is saying sugar is bad for you. There are too many qualified medical specialists now saying the same thing. Would love to know the sponsorship behind videos like this.

I would have appreciated if they made a distinction between sugar and it’s components- glucose and fructose.

I think their whole argument about sugar not being addictive is: if sugar is really addictive why aren't we just eating spoonfuls of sugar and raiding the cupboard for the sugar bag. Instead we are eating chocolate bars and candy (mind u those have added addictive chemicals and flavours). If we ate other types of food with the sugary foods then we won't crave it. But ppl do eat other food like salad and fish and still go back to eating another extra slice of cake. Maybe not the morbidly obese ppl but ppl with a normal BMI do. Salad and fish don't have the same high as a piece of cake.

I’m a little confused why dietitians would be the people to discuss addiction. Studies done by neuroscientists show that refined sugar abuse causes very similar binge, withdrawal, and cravings to cocaine abuse. Meaning it meets all the criteria of addiction. Irritability, anxiety and depression are just some of the withdrawal symptoms.

The one about cutting all sugar from the diet was clearly referring to added sugars, not cutting out all naturally present sugars in any food. Since there are naturally present sugars in so many foods, it was bizarre that they interpreted the question in the way they did

"Sugar drains you" I agree...

I'm 53, started OMAD 2016, started 3 to 20 day water fasting sessions in January 2019. until January 2020 I consumed sugars and carbs in my rare meals, then i stopped eating sugars and carbs completely, aside from 1 or two bottles of kombucha per month and maybe 10oz of black garlic, every 2-3 months. Six months later, July 2020, I realized all my problematic symptoms, disappeared. Now, I'm at 170lbs, down from 400lbs in 2009, 11% body fat, never hungry, eating at most once every 24 hours, water fasting the rest of the time, in fact I fasted about 70% of the days since January 2019. All my 53 years of health problems and issues are completely gone. Feeling like a teenager, it's insane. Absolutely NOT going back to sugar, life is to good to waste it on slowly dying. I'm consuming more calories on my occasional meal than I ever ate in a day while obese. This drives my metabolism up like crazy, I'm always hot although not sweating like I used to, I sleep entire winter naked in open window. My typical meal calories are coming from fatty fish such as wild caught salmon and sardines, duck eggs, my homemade mayonnaise(I'm using duck egg yolks and macadamia oil), I drink oils while fasting, which promotes further fat adaptation by forcing the cells of my entire body to manufacture more mitochondria, including the brain(which has had an amazing and completely unexpected effect), such as ghee, evoo, avocado oil, mct, c8.

I wish they would have touched on the effects it has on the digestive tract, your microbiome and immune system, and yeast infections/candidiasis. Also xylitol as an alternative, since it is completely different from all of the others (it is the best, but causes intestinal upset if you eat too much, aren't used to it, or generally are intolerant to it. Usually you can build up a tolerance, but not always)

In a TED video about sugar they contradict them and highlight how sugar CAN cause withdrawal symptoms and how the craving can definitely be associated with addictive behaviour, kind of like caffeine. Mmmmh.

They keep repeating "Sugar is not bad for you and it is important for your diet", while meaning that CARBS are important, and also say "you should ideally eat very little added sugar", added sugar meaning actual sugar or what most of us will call sugar

I've cut nearly all sugar and complex carbs from my diet and dropped 13kg in 2mths. Feel great and reversed type 2 diabetes

There are some contradictions and inaccuracies in given arguments in this video. Aside from that I’d like to hear their comments on Robert Lustig MD research and presentations that sugar consumption does correlate strongly with type 2 diabetes. While body weight is not a correlation at all. You can have type 2 diabetes being perfectly normal BMI and lifestyle.

I have hashimotos/hypothyroidism - cutting sugars to an absolute minimum did wonders for my joint pain and brain fog after years of wondering why I still feel like crap with an optimal medication range and all other variables checked (drink water, vitamins, etc). After a few weeks, my inflammation decreased, my constipation disappeared completely, my feet stopped hurting every morning when I got out of bed - it's been awesome! I also lost 10 lbs with the only lifestyle/diet change being removing sugar. I still have some whole fruit and I replace any sugar with erythritol/monk fruit which is super low on the glycemic index. Worth noting for anyone in the same boat.

I just love how you managed to dodge the mountian of negative effects sugar will cause to insulin, hormones and function of the body. "It's not addictive", well it depends on your definition of an addiction. Its hillarious that you look up the words and dodge its meaning like that. Ketosis will clear the body of the sugar and carb addiction. The brain fog and negative effects is very much the same process for the body as when you quit smoking. It only lasts a few days.

I cut out sugar in all forms completely and lost 38 kgs in 5 months, I'm now maintaining my weight at under 100 kgs and eat a little bit of fruit now. I don't feel any cravings for sugar at all.

As someone who has an addiction to sugar. And who has had withdrawl from not eating sugar saying sugar is not addictibe is dangerous . I have friends who Where drug addicts are now afficted to sugar says it is very addictibe. Listen to us who ate suffering

I think the main issue with sugar nowadays is that it's added into everything, so it's very difficult to track how much you're actually consuming and extremely easy to overdose. You also get used to sweetness, so your body will not inform you that the thing you're eating is overloaded with sugar. This is pretty easy to verify experimentally: Do your best to avoid any foods with high sugar content for a few weeks and see if you can still stomach eg. sodas afterwards. In my experience, they become downright disgusting once your body "resets" its taste for sweetness.

There definitely is a difference between real cane sugar and high fructose corn syrup. If I drink a soda with high fructose corn syrup I can tell right away, I can feel it in my stomach. If I drink a soda with real sugar my stomach feels fine

What she said about long term ketosis, actually I experience the complete opposite of those

5:53 = Sugar is not addictive 3:35 = It is very hard to go off sugar. Contradiction? Our body stores energy as fat, not sugar. We can make glucose from fat or protein with gluconeogenenis. I run marathons and workout everyday in the gym without eating added sugar and with a maximum of 20g of net carbs (not including fiber). I wouldn’t say that I lack energy. It did however take me some time to get off the sugar addiction and mental need for sugar.

Everyone likes to talk about getting their sugar in the form of whole fruits but never recognizes that fruits have been very heavily selected for sweetness. There is a lot more sugar in the fruits in your local grocery store than our ancestors would have ever found growing in the wild.

I have diabetes type 1 for about 23 years and i've never, ever, been said that it could be caused by "certain viruses"!

I totally have to disagree with sugar not being addictive 🤣 I get sick if I don't have added sugar 😅

Took a look at the literature they were referencing on long-term damage caused by keto. It was done on the elderly, and the takeaway is that though it has a lot of benefits, it curbs appetite faster than other diets so the only risk is that they don't take in enough nutrients (though that can absolutely be done on that diet). It also calls out that there are NO long-term studies on the keto diet available yet. It does make sense though that they're avoid those findings if they're trying to make a video of "Sugar isn't really that bad" for sus reasons.

Personally, I've found that cutting the sugar used in home made baking like banana bread or cookies by as much as 1/3 is nearly indistinguishable to the full sugar recepies. Give it a try the next time you bake at home (you will probably need more flour to replace the sugar so your batter isn't too runny)

…And today’s video comes to you thanks to the American Sugar Producers 🤭🤭🤭🤭 this is the FDA dietary recommendations in the 70s ALL OVER AGAIN…

Wow, I lost 75 pounds on a keto diet and have kept it off for three years.....

The fact that they didn’t clearly define sugar before starting their loosely defined facts bothers me.

Lost me at 5:54, honestly this video is just supporting the status quo, we have too much research that shows sugar is addictive and added sugar is bad for us and reaching ketosis is better than having muffins and pancakes. We don't even need grains. It's the food industry that's given us these standards and it's the cause of our obesity problem.

This really feels like semantics… I think when most people say sugar is bad for you they’re not talking about glucose, they’re talking about added sugars, which as they admit is bad for you and you should have no more than 6 tsp/day. Just a complication of “well, akshully…”

Fasting, or going into Ketosis, is a good thing. It's cell renewal, not cell damage.

I think they’re downplaying a lot of the issues with sugar

Here’s the thing - The idea isn’t that you eliminate all glucose, is that you get the sugar sugar out of your diet. You do this by eating 10 cups of greens 🥬 per day along with moderate amounts of protein. The are still items in your diet that break down to glucose in your diet (extra protein/amino acids and the minuscule amounts in vegetables like kale, broccoli, and avocado 🥑 etc.) but you want those carbs to be under 20 grams if you’re trying to lose weight. Under 50 grams just for a low carb diet. No one would argue that have a salmon fillet with 10 cups of salad 🥗 for dinner is unhealthy, but adding fruit to that doesn’t really make it healthier. Nor does a serving of whole wheat pasta. In fact, those items can be problematic because you are adding more glucose for the liver to break down. I remained obese on vegetarian and vegan diets because I followed the food pyramid and listen to health professionals about what to eat. Eliminating sugar and carbs from the diet is a sound nutritional decision, and after a year of doing so, I lost 30 kg and reversed a number of diseases. Your body turns to fat for fuel in absence of glucose, and that’s what we want.

It’s as if this video was funded by the food industry. So many misconceptions! I used to like the videos from this channel but now I will definitely be more careful on whether or not I believe what is being said.

Table sugar is a fructose molecule bonded with a glucose molecule, of course pure fructose in corn syrup is worse. Holy shit.

I've cut out all sugar/carbohydrates for months (zero carb) and I experienced enhanced clarity of mind and focus. Based on my own experience I wouldn't trust anything these two dietitians are saying. Cutting out sugar may or may not cause brain fog. You'll have to try for yourself to know what you will experience. N = 1 > dietary advice In My Opinion

Great video! Thank you for doing this!

I love that the RU-vid commercial in front of this video (for me) was for Twix! 🤣 Keep up the amazing job YT!

I'm going on 10 months of ketosis, mostly intermittent fasting, and currently OMAD. Decided to eat to live. Not live to eat. I'm confident that my body will make the sugar it requires.

When people say "sugar is bad for you" they do mean always only refined sugar, I've never meet anybody saying anything in this meaning about fruit and vegetables.

I felt like they were defending sugar consumption a suspicious amount. Makes me wonder if this video was sponsored by a sugar company 🤔

Anyone who's seen how kids act after holloween can tell you how excess sugar changes behavior Saying sugar doesn't have anything to do with hyperactivity is like saying weather has nothing to do with catching a cold. Real life experience >>> theory And I've tried studying for exams in an office that had a bunch of cookies/candies and other sugary snacks around and everything they said here 2:57 is EXACTLY what I experienced when normally my attention span and focus are superhuman. Sugar was definitely NOT giving me the energy I needed to focus and learn, it was just giving me a ton of distraction and frustration

Were they paid by the sugar industry? Like their so political.

I mean a sugar free diet usually refers to leaving out processed sugar in my experience, one would still eat fruit and carbohydrates and therefore not deprive the body of glucose, surely.

When I eat refined sugar, I want more sugar. When I eat sugar it makes me hungry. This has been true all my life. I also feel more energetic when I cut out refined sugar. It’s that simple.

How can they argue sugar is not addictive, when someone eats a high carb diet and eats very frequently like 6 meals a day, they can have withdrawl symptoms when their bodies sense they need another sugar spike. They experience mood swings and low energy until their next insulin spike. That is like the definition of physical addiction.

According to these two, gambling also would not be addictive which we know is not true.

not all addictions cause withdrawal - cocaine doesn't cause a withdrawal. Sugar is addictive as it reinforces the dopamine system. These two may be diet experts, but they are not addiction experts.

Wow! This channel is very helpful! Thank you so much!

"sugar isn't addictive" people that weigh 500 pounds: _am I a joke to you_ ?

Wait hold the phone, sugar is not addictive? It just acts the same way addictive substances do. It releases endorphins... how is not addictive?

Maybe sugar isn't as addictive as heroine, but it is addictive!! I got bad withdrawals when I stopped drinking soda. I don't drink soda anymore, but I still have a problem with other sweet stuff.

Thanks for the information 😁👍.

As someone who has struggled with drug addiction, my relationship with sugar is very similar.

I can confirm the adhd thing. I even have coffee and I'm not hyper, I get better focus and less mood swings, but one thing I know that can mess with adhd and cognitive function is certain food colouring like red dye, it made me more angry and there's a video that elaborated it but forgot how it happens exactly but it's good to know

Dietitians have awful twisted understanding of long term effects of being in ketosis

When they talked about sugar high, I was like "finally". I've never felt more energy for eating candy. It's just good. I think that's a placebo effect that people created. They act as if they were on red bull or something.

I think someone might need to reevaluate what addiction is. Take someone who consumes nothing but soda and sweet tea, along with little Debbie snacks, chips, pasta, etc., and then give them nothing but water, fresh fruit, and vegetables and watch the withdrawal symptoms roll in. "Sugar isn't addictive" is page one of Coca-cola's/Pepsi's playbook for convincing the public sugar is safe for their families.

I once fasted from simple sugars to jump start a weight loss plan that basically was designed to slowly change my eating/drinking habits to support a healthy lifestyle. It worked, but health changes and other problems led to a return to overeating. I would eat fruit, and drink milk or water, but I allowed myself zero juice, soda, tea or coffee (I tend to add a lot of sweetener to my cereals and caffeinated beverages). I would eat fruits, pasta/spinach salad, raw almonds.... basically eat small, snack-like meals throughout the day and have a full meal at home with my family. I also made dietary exchanges based on nutrition. I was allowed carbs, but avoided empty carbs or foods with a higher carb value. Example: instead of potato with butter/sour cream and chicken, I had butternut or acorn squash (lower in carbs, higher in value) with butter and seasoning and some chicken. Eventually I started exercising more and the small changes became big ones. It is possible.

Sugar is 100% addictive. The analysis of that "myth" was completely disingenuous. The dose of sugar you're getting in a single bowl of strawberries is not high enough to elicit an addictive effect, but the average American diet IS.

you guys briefly glossed over Ketosis and only spoke about the mild symptoms of the first few days of being without sugar. Being in Ketosis for a long period of time can be beneficial for you in alot of ways even though its not recommended to everyone it helps against diabetes, and people with uncontrolled epilepsy.

In the tropical modern diet, even if you cut out "sugary" dos, your likely still getting too much sugar in the form of hidden added sugar, like ketchup.

I knew about hidden sugar a long time ago and I actually watch my intake, but I do over do it sometimes.

What does "unsustained weight control" (under long-term effects of ketosis) mean?

Ok, so I have done the all meat diet on and off for years. As a 46 year old man, it can be really difficult to lose weight, except on this diet. I hate that they said your body needs sugar to function: it doesn’t. In many earlier cultures sugar was very difficult to find outside of honey, and fruits, and it was seasonal. Depends if the culture was hunter or gather, but for the most part sugar was never so available as it is in today’s culture. It is very much like an addiction, and we have a diabetic epidemic in this country. The funny thing about all meat diets: you are not diabetic while on the diet. You have no need for shots or medications or anything. The problem is, certain large corporations make a very large amount of money off of those medications, and they don’t want you to know it is as simple as completely cutting sugar out of your life. There is a lot of available research on this diet, and there are a lot of doctors doing the research for the sake of being able to recommend it to their patients. Check it out. I just politely disagree with this video and the message it is putting out.

When I heard that sugar is not addictive, I was having some fruit because I had just felt anxiety and wanted something sweet... What can I call that? I'm trying to cut off my refined sugar intake but I get very anxious about it.

Confusingly mixes different types of sugar (with very different consequences) just for the sake of “myth debunking”.

I have been eating lower carbohydrates for over a year, also skipping breakfast, and eating more healthy fats and moderate protein. I have never been more positive, more energized, more healthy. Yes, there is different types of sugar in various foods but It is important to cut the processed and added sugars as much as possible. The way these ladies talk about ketones and ketosis as negative is really simplistic. Long term low carb people know this. There should be just these recommendations (lost 40pounds like this and have kept it off without ever counting calories): - cut processed foods, eat real food, - cut added sugar as much as possible, - don’t snack/eat max 3x a day/eat 1st meal later in the day/have an eating window of 6-8 hours/IM fasting, -don’t be afraid of fats like butter, olive oil, -eat moderate protein, -cut excess carbs (helps to keep insulin levels in check), - eat lots of veggies, like cruciferous ones. It does work. The moderation thing sounds cute but the truth is that some foods are addictive and raise insulin like crazy. For me what kills it is wheat and sugar mix in foods. It is like drugs.

Cutting sugar out of my diet is the most significant thing I ever did. It improved my weight, blood pressure, eliminated gout and arthritis, I feel much more energetic and less drowsy. I should have done it decades ago..... all in a matter of 3 months. It wasn't easy as I craved sugar and had withdrawal symptoms.... I was addicted. I think this video must have been paid for by the sugar industry ....

I can definitely tell you from personal experience that high fructose corn syrup is definitely worse for you. Considering my body was in a more fragile state because some bad eating habits and i think was damaged by mold exposure. When ever i drank coke that was made with cane sugar i felt fine but when ever i drank coke with high fructose corn syrup, i could feel my body start to hurt and feel weak. I also made smoothies with lots of fruits and that is what actually helped heal my body.

I have chronic gastroenteritis and if I make a cake with honey as opposed to sugar my stomach feels a lot better. Also if I have a bar of chocolate made with artifical sugar I don't feel sick. If I eat one with sugar, I feel sick and sore. This is my experience

I cut out sugar over a year ago and I've never had so much energy and a clearer head so im a lil unsettled on these ladies encouraging sugar, seems a lil weird

1:16 But different sugars are metabolized in different ways. Glucose is consumed by any cell, while fructose is only processed by the liver (and it is easy to overwhelm it). So, if you really want to have a non-alcoholic fatty liver, just eat a lot of fructose. The same amount of glucose (e.g. starch) won't work.

How the hell do dietitians not know that your body can produce all the glucose it requires from protein and fat precursors? That we need exogenous sugar is what is a complete myth. Our brain is going to be fine running 83% glucose and 17% ketones. That is completely sustainable. What you're doing when you consume sugar is you're pouring excess sugar into a system that is already capped out in sugar. There is no possible way to moderate your own blood sugar like this. Consume protein and fat and let your body handle blood sugar like any normal animal you could think off, even our herbivorous cousins rely on a high fat diet.

I'd totally debate the honey topic with them. More and more research has been coming forward in recent years explaining many of the benefits honey may offer to certain groups of people. I would say for most people there may not be a difference, but a spoon full of honey has helped countless people with digestive issues, and other issues when a spoon of sugar would not. I've found tremendous help from honey personally, I've had countless surgeries and have many stomach issues and find that it can help when not much else can. Fantastic video otherwise though ❤

Who is to say that these experts are more experts than other experts?

Helpful. Thanks.

"No-Sugar Diets Don't Work". I gave up refined sugars and my teeth pain went away and I never feel plaque build-up at the gumline. Works for me!