Current Events > Sugar is not bad, oil, grease lard, butter, animal fat is.

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I'm glad KETO is fading out. Everyone, and I mean 100% of the people I know that have claimed to do the keto diet has gained weight, got flabby and unbalanced. While fats are not to be 100% avoided, you need very little to have hormones and bodily functions at their optimal level.
Meanwhile every cell in your body, from muscle cells to brain cells, absolutely thrives off of fructose glucose dextrose sucrose lactose, whatever you want to call it, it is -sugar- is what our bodies function the best from.
Fruit
Grains
Potatoes
Rice
Starches
Breads
Pastas

Just look at anyone you've in person stick to KETO - high fat meats, oils, lard, grease butter, animal fat...

My brother did keto for years and it worked well for him.

Carbs are the new salt. Years ago people liked to blame all their health issues on salt while continuing to eat a diet rich in saturated fats. The paranoia around salt is starting to fade, but its being replaced with carbs and sugar.

Not 100% avoided? Then what mr dietician 99? 98? 97?, 96, 95? 94?, 93?, 92?, 91?, 90?, 89? 88?, 87? 86?, 85?, 84? 50?, 63? 13?

I do find that my system can handle sweets and candy a hell of a lot better than deep fried shit

Natural sugar isn't bad -- but the highly processed and refined version present in a lot of processed foods absolutely is.

Sugar is absolutely bad for you lmao

but so are fats, in excess. The key is everything in moderation with a combo of regular exercise and cardio

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The problems the oil and fats that are in "sweets"
Donuts cookies cake, - globs of butter grease oil and lard
The highly refined sucrose isn't giving people obesity nor diabetes

No macronutrient is "bad" for you. What's bad for you is excess calories, of any kind, and its end result: obesity

If this is a thinly veiled attempt to convert us to an all sugar diet I swear

Sugar is definitely bad. Cancer eats that shit up

Malcrasternus posted...

If this is a thinly veiled attempt to convert us to an all sugar diet I swear

It's just to acknowledge that highly refined straight pure table sucrose/glucose is not bad for you
If you were on your death bed in a hospital you're probably hooked up to an IV being fed sucrose/glucose

CervusCanadensi posted...

It's just to acknowledge that highly refined straight pure table sucrose/glucose is not bad for you
If you were on your death bed in a hospital you're probably hooked up to an IV being fed sucrose/glucose

If Im dying then I dont give a shit about being healthy anymore.

If you do keto right you shouldn't be gaining weight. My mom did it for years and lost a lot of weight.

...I feel like I'm getting mixed signals here...

Where do we think TC got his shit info from? Some uneducated fitness Youtuber, or some uneducated Facebook posts?

Eh, in my case and many others my diet can use tightening up a lot more in the carb department than anywhere else. I'm snacking on candy and shit which is definitely poor eating.

Almost no one is eating too much protein, so really it just depends on your regular eating habits of what to cut from there. Although admittedly, many people who aren't me indulge in too much fat.

I think you have it the other way around, Mr. Big Sugar

I eat a stick of butter with my baked potato.

I'm basically made out of all that

It is what plants crave

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He may not have had a source.
He may have just had the passing thought, then assumed it must have been right.

Cocytus posted...

I eat a stick of butter with my baked potato.

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Soon: Obeeses Baked Potato Cups

Olive oil

Its waaaaayyy more nuanced than this. Sugar IS bad, but a lil sugar wont do much harm. Also all those foods you mentioned, their health level depends mostly on how they were prepared. Whole grains, sourdough bread are much much much better than their processed, white counter parts.

meatlesshotdogz posted...

Sugar is absolutely bad for you lmao

but so are fats, in excess. The key is everything in moderation with a combo of regular exercise and cardio

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Funny how your argument is that glucose is necessary to biological function while making the argument that fat is bad.

there are good and bad sources of glucose and fat. And even the good ones need to be consumed within moderation. People who are overweight the vast majority of the time are getting at least one, but usually both of those wrong.

My pancreas disagrees, at least with the sugar part.

The people I know who have lost weight through keto have managed to keep it off, but theyre definitely flabby. They dont look slim or in any sense fit. Just not fat.

meatlesshotdogz posted...

Sugar is absolutely bad for you lmao

but so are fats, in excess. The key is everything in moderation with a combo of regular exercise and cardio

This is the short answer

CARRRNE_ASADA posted...

Its waaaaayyy more nuanced than this. Sugar IS bad, but a lil sugar wont do much harm. Also all those foods you mentioned, their health level depends mostly on how they were prepared. Whole grains, sourdough bread are much much much better than their processed, white counter parts.

This too

https://youtu.be/3_lAb8m9MpI?si=6JwweZJA2sfhTkKb

Anything outside of moderation isn't good for you. The levels that define moderation depend on what we're measuring, of course.

I think any diet that aims to eliminate an entire macronutrient is suspect at best, particularly for long term use.

Biggest issue I've seen with almost anything marketed as keto is the fat content, particularly saturated fat.