- cross-posted to:
- science@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- science@lemmy.world
What I don’t get is why it took them decades to figure this out. Why have they been giving us sugar substitutes without understanding what they have been doing to us? Why were these approved for use in the first place?
Amino acids and fat. Why do we need sugar? It’s not an essential nutrient.
Lipids (fat) also gets converted into glucose before your body can use it. If we’re cutting out sugar in all forms then that counts too.
That is also my understanding. We needn’t consume any exogenous sugars in any form, since the body is able to make all it needs.
That’s nothing near to what I said. To reiterate my statement, there is no requirement for sugar in the human diet.
Your previous comment definitely says “sugar in all its forms”
Yes, in the human diet. Fats are not a form of sugar.
Except it is, fat is how we store sugars. Lipids are made from glucose. It is sugar just in another form. If you eat glucose it gets turned into lipids and if you eat lipids it gets turned into glucose. All of our energy comes from turning food into glucose. You couldn’t survive if you didn’t have some form of sugar in your diet.
I’m not sure what to say to that. Are you asserting that fat is a form of sugar? I don’t believe that to be case. One of the obvious differences is that sugars are water soluble, but fats are not.
Triglycerides do contain a glycerol backbone, but aren’t sugars. In any case I will revise my statement. Don’t eat carbohydrates, get your nutrition from protein and the associated fat.
Edit:
In lipolysis, our bodies break down triglycerides into both fatty acids and glycerol. Most of our cells are also able to metabolize fatty acids for energy, not just glucose.
Unless we conflate fat with sugars, it is perfectly possible to survive (and indeed thrive!) without eating any form of sugar at all. Again, the human body is capable of making all the glucose it needs.
You don’t understand human biology very well.
Please elaborate. I would love to learn more. Not being sarcastic.