Is anyone ever worried about the effects of sugar for fueling, as far as sugar causing/feeding cancer cells? It scares me to death… but also affects my ability to properly fuel…

When I grew up I was scared of proteins (and red meat). Then it turned out fats were the big bad villain. Now many people are scared of sugars. I decided a few years back to ignore all the noise and believe for myself that the body needs what it needs, based on what it does. Too much of anything is…

Not to mention caries… but seriously our body needs top consume exactly 0 carbs to perform, so why eat something which causes so much harm…

As far as I know consuming sugar immediately before and during exercise isn’t that bad for you. It’s when you eat sugar all the time and you don’t exercise that can create problems. Plenty of other great advice here.

[image] ArHu74: caries What’s this? [image] ArHu74: seriously our body needs top consume exactly 0 carbs to perform I’d like to see where you got this info and what you mean by ‘perform’. [image] ArHu74: so why eat something which causes so much harm What harm is it causing to…

Carbs? The most appropriate food for humans? Just look at many millions of healthy Chinese people living on 85% of carbs a day. And especially for athletes (cycling) it’s even more necessary to consume carbs/sugars.

I’m scared by how little I’m scared of sugar.

[image] mwglow15: [image] ArHu74: caries What’s this? Tooth decay - it’s the French word for it.

I never said there is anything wrong with carbs. I said there’s a problem consuming sugar and sitting on your butt. If you consume sugar before and during exercise that is the best “window” for your body to process them. if you want to go that route it all depends where you people live and the condi…

Did I miss a landmark study that shows sugar causes cancer? Nor correlation, but causality? The idea that we can perform just fine without carbs is simply wrong. We can exercise at a certain level without carbs, but some levels of intensity are simply not possible on a sustained basis w/o carbs.

How to stop being scared of sugar?

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T_Field February 12, 2022, 5:00am 3

Listen to the Peter Attia podcase with Richard Johnson. The problem with sugar is fructose. I’ve been using Hammer products that us maltodextrin which is a glucose polymer. No fructose.

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How to stop being scared of sugar?

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