Fri, Nov-03-17, 12:53
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Plan: Atkins-ish (hypoglycemia)
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Originally Posted by teaser
I'm not crazy about "clean, natural, organic" or even "quality." Not that these aren't good traits, I don't think they're sufficient to arrive at a good diet. A friend yesterday told me a story where she was working with Mohawk children, telling them that if they used maple syrup in place of sugar, they wouldn't get diabetes. Clean, natural, organic, high-quality maple syrup. I told her if they were going to get diabetes with the sugar, replacing it with maple syrup would just give them all-natural diabetes.
I've seen "organic, non-gmo" cotton candy in the health food store. That just shouldn't happen unless there are hidden cameras or something.
Organic spinach might be better than "conventional" spinach. Probably it's more important that I eat my spinach than that it be organic. Organic sweet-potato french fries made with virgin coconut oil? The "organic" and "virgin" aspects might make a difference, but I think it's probably a minor difference compared to macro and micronutrient considerations. Of course that can come under "quality" but there's the question of which qualities matter enough to make a difference. The only way I could afford to eat organic, all natural, grass-fed etc. is to sacrifice other qualities that I think have a much stronger and obvious effect in improving my health.
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In a round-about way, she's right.
Considering how expensive real maple syrup is to begin with, the cost itself would limit consumption to amounts you could afford. With just a quick google, I'm seeing $6+ for 8 oz maple syrup, compared to $1.49 for 4 lbs sugar - the price difference should seriously limit maple syrup use compared to granulated sugar. Qualifying maple syrup even further by insisting that it be clean, natural, organic, and high quality - well, the price for that is going to be even higher.
Sure, maple syrup still pure sugar, but if your food budget is used to the type of sweet consumption that the price of granulated sugar encourages, you probably can't afford to use more than about 1-2 tsp/day of maple syrup, if that's the only sweetener you're using as a sweetener in all your food. So if you switch all your conventionally sugar sweetened foods to those sweetened ONLY with maple syrup, you wouldn't be likely to consume enough of it to raise your blood sugar enough to cause diabetes.
Other things in the diet could of course raise the blood sugar enough to cause diabetes, such as excessive fruit, or too many starches.
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