Good sugar, bad sugar?

Slinwagh · 1 Jun 2008 at 14:36

I have had a problem with snacking in the past, all the stuff that is bad for you, crisps, chocolate, cakes and coke etc.

Now I haven't a problem stopping eating and drinking them and swapping the snacks for fruit, coke for water or tea.

I am curious as to whether there is such as thing as good and bad sugar. I am assuming that the sugar in snacks in refined sugar where as the sugar in fruit is natural sugar.

I know that eating fruit is better than snacking but I don't want to be substituting bad sugar for bad sugar if that makes sense.

Gilly · 1 Jun 2008 at 14:37

Are you asking if fruit is as bad as the other things you mention?

Slinwagh · 1 Jun 2008 at 14:43

Gilly said:
Are you asking if fruit is as bad as the other things you mention?

Sort of I suppose !

Although I know that coke is full of sugar is the sugar that is in fruit "good sugar" as it has not been refined?

Chong Warrior · 1 Jun 2008 at 15:52

There's no comparison. Fruit is good for you, chocolate, cakes and crisps aren't... and coke is quite possibly THE worst thing you could put in your body?

oddjob62 · 1 Jun 2008 at 15:58

Chong Warrior said:
There's no comparison. Fruit is good for you

Note, CW says fruit, not fruit juice. Too many people think they can drink as much juice as they want because it comes from fruit.

Chong Warrior · 1 Jun 2008 at 15:59

oddjob62 said:
Note, CW says fruit, not fruit juice. Too many people think they can drink as much juice as they want because it comes from fruit.

Good point. Fruit juice isn't that good and some are actually pretty bad!

The Pat · 1 Jun 2008 at 16:34

Slinwagh said:
I am curious as to whether there is such as thing as good and bad sugar. I am assuming that the sugar in snacks in refined sugar where as the sugar in fruit is natural sugar.

Regarding sugar only, it all becomes the same stuff in the body.

Johnny Girth · 2 Jun 2008 at 14:38

The Pat said:
Regarding sugar only, it all becomes the same stuff in the body.

But the way the body reacts varies greatly depending on the type of sugar you put in it.

Fruit is good for you, but as has been said - whole fruit is a lot better than fruit juice. And just because it's good for you, doesn't mean that eating loads of it is healthy or will keep you slim. Everything in moderation.

Morba · 2 Jun 2008 at 14:39

oddjob62 said:
Note, CW says fruit, not fruit juice. Too many people think they can drink as much juice as they want because it comes from fruit.

but but but innocent rocks!

oddjob62 · 2 Jun 2008 at 14:51

Morba said:
but but but innocent rocks!

That's right Morbs, keep chuggind down those Innocents...

...and our little pull-up comp will me mine!!!

Morba · 2 Jun 2008 at 14:55

oddjob62 said:
That's right Morbs, keep chuggind down those Innocents...

...and our little pull-up comp will me mine!!!

haha, im an addict! i think that is where the extra 5kg has come from recently!

on the pullup stakes - im about 4 reps in half decent form on chins and.... yesterday i almost managed a single wide grip pullup!!! go me haha

oddjob62 · 2 Jun 2008 at 14:57

Morba said:
on the pullup stakes - im about 4 reps in half decent form on chins and.... yesterday i almost managed a single wide grip pullup!!! go me haha

Nice, i've got some rings at home, so I do a couple of attempts then few negs several times a day. Greasing the groove

6thElement · 2 Jun 2008 at 16:10

So 100% pure OJ Tropicana isn't just OJ .o?

oddjob62 · 2 Jun 2008 at 17:37

6thElement said:
So 100% pure OJ Tropicana isn't just OJ .o?

It is. But a 200ml serving contains 18g of sugars. 1 serving is fine, but you get kids (and adults) who will drink a carton in a day, thinking that because it's from fruit. it's fine.

Morba · 2 Jun 2008 at 17:37

oddjob62 said:
It is. But a 200ml serving contains 18g of sugars. 1 serving is fine, but you get kids (and adults) who will drink a carton in a day, thinking that because it's from fruit. it's fine.

*cough*

6thElement · 2 Jun 2008 at 19:25

/whistles nonchalently

I'm aware of the sugar content, but I'm a long way from being a porker and I burn off everything I consume.

Ultra_Extreme · 2 Jun 2008 at 22:22

good sugars and bad sugars are just methods of vocalising the differences between sugary foods that are bad and sugary foods that are good. When you take in sugars they are used preferentially for energy, when these sugars are consumed with fat the sugars meet any energy demand and hike your insulin levels. Fat is then stored more readily and lo and behold youve just ingested a load.

When you eat fruit the sugar response is no different, but most fruits lack any significant fat content. A lot of the other benefits of fruit come from eating the wholefruit and not simply the juices. Also remember that at a basic level juice is no better/worse for you calorically than beer or coke. Bout 250k/cal per glass. Not good.

Fraggr · 2 Jun 2008 at 22:25

Why not replace coke with Coke Zero/Diet Coke if you are concerned about sugar?

Ultra_Extreme · 2 Jun 2008 at 22:30

Fraggr said:
Why not replace coke with Coke Zero/Diet Coke if you are concerned about sugar?

because sweetners give you cancer, or aids, or aids cancer, or something.

Anway all studies show that diet coke is worse than smoking, in a room full of gas, holding a can of petrol, while strapped to an al-quaida terrorist, on acid, at the bottom of a ravine, used for nuclear testing. So best avoid it.

A2Z · 2 Jun 2008 at 22:45

Ultra_Extreme said:
because sweetners give you cancer, or aids, or aids cancer, or something.

Anway all studies show that diet coke is worse than smoking, in a room full of gas, holding a can of petrol, while strapped to an al-quaida terrorist, on acid, at the bottom of a ravine, used for nuclear testing. So best avoid it.

hahaha