Fri, Apr-05-19, 11:37
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Plan: modified adkins (sort of)
Stats: 265/176/167
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Progress: 91%
Location: Austin, TX
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hmmmm, if what they're trying to say is that "in the long run, sugar will make you feel worse" I'll buy that. If they're trying to say that there really is "no such thing as a sugar rush"... i.e., that ingesting sugar does not make you feel better even temporarily... then nope, I don't believe it!
The whole reason sugar - and every other addictive substance IS addictive - is that, in the short term, the substance makes people FEEL GOOD! If the immediate result of eating sugar was that people all felt worse than before they put the sugar in their mouths, no one would continue to eat sugar... at least not if they didn't have too.
People just don't voluntarily repeat actions that make them feel bad instantly and from which they don't derive any benefit. Yes, that short term "high" may quickly be followed by a fall, but there is no denying the "high" happens.
To attempt to say that there is no high at all, is argue in the face of (almost) EVERYBODY'S personal experience. For some people the high may only be a very slight bump up followed almost immediately by a fall. These people are, I suspect, most likely to be those who don't report having a sweet tooth. Sugar just doesn't "do it" for them...but I think they're very much in the minority.
For others - which probably includes all of us who have to fight our sugar cravings - the sugar rush (high) is immediate and very noticeable! We KNOW we feel better, at least temporarily. And, for us, the fall down from the sugar high is probably more of a slow slide down. Yes, we may end up more "down" than we would have been without the sugar rush at all, but the slide downward is so slow that by the time we've bottomed out, we tend to think of our post-sugar "down" as our "normal mood" never realizing that, in fact, sugar has depressed us in the long term.... at least not until we manage to kick sugar to the curb and begin realizing just how much better our moods are overall than they were before.
I understand that the researchers seem to be trying to provide evidence to fight against our societies madness FOR sugar. And I appreciate the motive.
But people are simply not going to pay attention (at least not for any length of time) to anybody who tries to tell them "you did not feel what you felt." So, it seems to me like they might better spend their time and research budget investigating and reporting on how long the sugar rush actually lasts and whether subjects long-term mood (after the sugar rush is over) is better or worse than if they hadn't experienced the sugar rush at all. It might also be instructive to look at the differences in these factors between people who don't have a sweet-tooth, normal people (if there are any), and those who CRAVE sugar.
Just my 2 cents.
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