If all carbohydrates get broken down to their most simple form, sugar, why is it unhealthy to just eat tablespoons of sugar?
In: Biology
It’s not. In moderation.
But putting sucrose, or worse glucose into your body in large amounts all at once taxes your ability to process it and may lead to some diabetes like stresses due to blood sugar spiking.
At it’s core your body is an incredibly complicated machine for turning potentially millions of different complex combinations of nutrients into a half dozen simple fats and sugars your body can use directly, on the fly, with minimal food wasted.
Many of the things we consider unhealthy are simply more direct routes to these simple fuels our body needs. But this encourages both over consumption and avoids the rate limits of how quickly we can process certain types of food.
Even highly processed food is good for you, in moderation. VERY CAREFUL moderation.
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