For example, most fruits have around 10-20g of sugar per cup of fruit. How is this sugar any different than if I were to eat a granola bar with 10g of added sugar? Or have a drink with added sugar? The USDA says to limit added sugar consumption, but says nothing about limiting regular sugar consumption. Is added sugar chemically any different from sugar found in natural foods?
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So a lot of people have covered a lot of things. The one interesting thing I was listening to. I think it was a podcast on NPR. They said that the biggest problem we have right now isn’t is the food we eat but the portionings of the food that we eat.
Prior to modern times, calories density was largely dependent on the amount of food you actually consumed. Nowadays that’s not true. Like a honey bun is 500ish calories. You can eat that honey bun in 5 seconds. Your body doesn’t understand that you’ve already consumed 500 calories, so it still feels hungry.
Before modern times it took time to chew food. It took time to consume food so that by the time you finished your meal and over the course of your meal, you would slowly begin to feel full.
That doesn’t really happen anymore. Drinking a soda is 1/8 of the calorie needs of an average human. But it’s not going to make you feel full until your body has time to process some of what it’s gotten.
This is one of the reasons why I add fiber to anything and everything that I eat. You end up reducing the amount of food you consume.
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