If all carbohydrates get broken down to their most simple form, sugar, why is it unhealthy to just eat tablespoons of sugar?
In: Biology
The way your liver processes it. Eating an apple has a good amount of sugar (mostly as fructose), but it also has fiber, which slows the release of insulin and extends digestion.
Eating raw sugar, your body would react as it would to another toxin, in a rather extreme fashion. Your pancreas would excrete insulin at an alarming rate to cope with it.
Refined sugar has issues as other processed things, like table salt. In nature, sugar comes packaged in optimal form (as fructose with fiber, usually). Just as sea salt comes with other minerals like magnesium and potassium, which complement it. Stripping it from those other naturally occurring substances makes it better for profit margins, but worse for your body.
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