Office Hours: Sugar Toxicity + The Latest on Saturated Fat & Heart Disease

Darya discusses the impact of Gary Taubes latest article on the dangers of sugar and fructose, as well as the latest scientific consensus on the role of saturated fat in heart disease.

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Education

Tags:

• health
• sugar
• fructose
• diet
• glucose
• diabetes
• metabolic syndrome
• saturated fat
• heart disease health diet

[rui27marne]

what do u eat daily?

[daryapino]

@rui27marne I made a video of that called Darya's Healthstyle

[hitssquad]

4:46 "it's not easy to guzzle down 40 apples, which is what it would take to equal a dessert"

40 large apples together contain over 2 pounds of sugar. A slice of apple pie contains only about 50 grams of sugar. 20 slices of apple pie = 40 large apples, in terms of sugar content.

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23.2 g sugar per apple: caloriecount. about. com/calories-apples-i9003?size­_grams=223. 0

12 t sugar per slice of apple pie: karlloren. com/diet/p35. htm

[daryapino]

@hitssquad Touche. I hadn't really thought out that calculation in my head before the show. Though I should add that I can't even finish one of those "large," sickly sweet Fuji apples that they sell at grocery stores. In my brain apples (from my farmers market) are about 1/3 that size and far less sweet.

[hitssquad]

@daryapino "In my brain apples [...] are about 1/3 that size and far less sweet."

All apples have a lot of sugar. They also contain bitter chemicals that might make the sugar less obvious. That site lists large, medium, small, and extra-small. The extra-smalls are a bit less than half the mass of the larges, and have a bit less than half the sugar:

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Large: 3-1/4" dia (223 g) Sugars 23.2g

Medium: 3" (182 g) Sugars 18.9g

Small: 2-3/4" (149 g) Sugars 15.5g

Extra-small: 2-1/2" (101 g) Sugars 10.5g

[daryapino]

@hitssquad Yep, but I'm sure they measured industrial apples, which are bred for sweetness. I'd be interested to see how the sugar content of heirloom apples compare.

[porkyo123]

@daryapino Keep nit simple? Balance all meals and don't over do anything.

[TheRosa63]

fructose is 10 X reactive as glucose,if yoru glucose intolerant yes to much carbs is bad, but glucose/fructose itself is not bad, if your eating enough saturated fats with fruits then that lowers the gi even more. insulin resistance is caused by nutritional deficiency not fructose or glucose. you need cholesterol to create the lipid rafts that handle glucose while protecting the cytoplasm from glucose toxicity. low fat diets and sun avoidance is main cause of glucose intolerance.

[rui27marne]

@daryapino thns im watching ur probiotic video as im writing this.. i iwant to see if u cover raw milk kefir .. im on the fence about it

[hitssquad]

"writes Michael Pollan of tasting true wild apples. “On the first bite some of these apples would start out with high promise on the tongue—Now here’s an apple!—only to suddenly veer into a bitterness so profound it makes my stomach rise even at the recollection.”4

This is true of most domestic fruits. Their progenitors are almost inedible by humans."

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4. Pollan, Botany, p. 55.

Pollan, Michael. The Botany of Desire. New York: Random House, 2001.

[hitssquad]

@daryapino "but I'm sure they measured industrial apples, which are bred for sweetness."

All apples were bred for sweetness. Heirloom apples are not paleolithic. They were also recently invented. From Lierre Keith's The Vegetarian Myth:

"there are no apples in nature. Apples are domesticated. Apples started as Malus sieversii, in the mountains of Kazakhstan and, once upon a time, they were bitter.

“Imagine sinking your teeth into a tart potato or a slightly mushy Brazil nut covered in leather,”

[hitssquad]

@daryapino So, 40 of the small apples = a dozen slices of apple pie (in terms of sugar content).

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You earlier claimed we've been eating fructose for millions of years. However, it wouldn't have been possible for paleolithic man to eat anything as sweet as modern varieties of apples. The apple, like most commercial fruits, is a recent invention, bred for sweetness (and fructose is sweeter than glucose or sucrose).

I believe that's why modern fruit is referred-to by some as "junk food".