The Real Impact of Excess Sugar on Weight Gain | Dr Robert Lustig

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  @IeitnyllaKharsati · 1 year ago

  I felt so drained and tired everday. I tried everything, preworkouts, youtube gurus, morning routines that nearly killed me. none of it hit. then i saw someone mention Testosterone Rewired by David Brooks in the comments and it literally changed my life. Following everything in that book past couple of weeks made me realize I was running on empty for YEARS. wish I knew about this years ago🔥

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  @ChrisSmith-BMX · 1 year ago

  I quit sugar 10 months ago when I weighed 264 lbs.<br>I weigh 184 now.<br>Have a nice day.

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  @SC_Jolly · 1 year ago

  Table sugar has been around for hundreds of years. Widespread obesity started when high-fructose corn syrup was introduced as a sugar substitute in the mid-1970s and skyrocketed in the 1990s.

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  @checkthefacts. · 1 year ago

  In the 70s as a child both myself and the kids around me definitely consumed a lot of sugar, school meals were always followed by sweet puddings like syrup puddings,tapioca,ice cream, sponge and custard etc and most of us were pretty skinny. We practically all walked or cycled to school, and had very active lifestyles in recreation.

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  @WilliamShedwardian · 1 year ago

  im nearly 60.. European, the doctor told me i was pre diabetic and i had an enormous heart attack at 48... i am heavy but not fat,, slightly tubby at most. i cut out seed oil, and cooked with beef fat. i massively reduced potato, bread, rice, pasta and i eat real butter, full fat Greek yogurt, red meat, poultry, fish, eggs, nuts, cheeses from cows, sheep and goats, drink milk and eat plenty of green leafy vegetables/salads dressed in butter or &nbsp;olive oil and cider vinegar, i drink minimum 4 pints of water a day, more in the summer, each glass has a tiny granule of raw sea salt in it. i do my best to avoid all sugar (difficult as it can be hidden in some foods) even limiting the level of fruit i eat. i do adore pineapple at times. i am not so obsessed that i am a social bore (odd cheat day with a few tweaks if invited out and then back on track) and i have never felt better since i was a teenager. i even feel better if i dont take my heart meds and thats a discussion with the doctor for another day

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  @wickedbird1538 · 1 year ago (edited)

  😮😮😮😮I blame the US government for selling out American health for corn. . . As a child, I (70) was very thin. My brothers and I grew up on tang with SUGAR. As corn syrup replaced sugar, my siblings and I started having difficulty with weight.

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  @poll2dock · 1 year ago

  I’m 67. As a child we ate a pretty high fat diet. Lots of fatty meat, butter, lard. No weight problems then. Very little sweets. <br>Then the “butter bad, high fructose” crap started. <br>Not surprisingly also the adhd, autism stuff started as well as children getting fat. <br>Add to that the internet era where everyone just sits looking at a screen all day. <br>We are doomed. Glad I’m old because I don’t want to see how much worse society gets

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  @michellebwilson2610 · 1 year ago

  “Obligate weight gain” - first time I’ve ever heard that. Impossibility of losing weight-something every dieter is extremely familiar with.

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  @michaelalpine4198 · 2 days ago

  Dr Lustig is a blessing to humanity.

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  @MarkMcGuireFit · 1 year ago

  This is exactly why focusing on insulin, not just calories, changes everything. Chronic fatigue, weight gain, even hormonal imbalance — all of it traces back to dysfunction at the metabolic level. Lowering insulin isn&apos;t just about weight, it&apos;s about getting your life back.

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  @rmondave · 1 year ago

  Imagine that the federal government is subsidizing growing of corn, for both ethanol and high fructose corn syrup as a cheap sweetener and depopulation agent and pharma sales bononza

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  @kelkel001t · 1 year ago

  We don’t use corn syrup in Australia as we have a big sugar cane industry yet obesity is our biggest health problem 🤷🏻‍♀️

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