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TLDW;

  • Watch the first 5 minutes

  • Labeling laws designed to hide the amount of sugar in food.

  • Sugar is labeled BUT if two sugar molecules are bound they can be labeled as complex carbohydrates

  • This means that a bagel has 40grams of sugar even though the label says there is zero sugar in it.

The rest of the video is good too. Most of you know this, but, cholesterol level doesn't matter because it is just trying to patch up inflamed portions of blood vessels. What matters is how much of "sticky" (oxidized) cholesterol is in your blood (and also what is also causing the blood vessel inflamation, which is the real cause of atherosclerosis). Also, parkinsons desease seems to have a start in the gut (amongst many other causal effects, but this connection is real none the less).

The video is pretty dense with really great info.

TLDW; * Watch the first 5 minutes * Labeling laws designed to hide the amount of sugar in food. * Sugar is labeled BUT if two sugar molecules are bound they can be labeled as complex carbohydrates * This means that a bagel has 40grams of sugar even though the label says there is zero sugar in it. The rest of the video is good too. Most of you know this, but, cholesterol level doesn't matter because it is just trying to patch up inflamed portions of blood vessels. What matters is how much of "sticky" (oxidized) cholesterol is in your blood (and also what is also causing the blood vessel inflamation, which is the real cause of atherosclerosis). Also, parkinsons desease seems to have a start in the gut (amongst many other causal effects, but this connection is real none the less). The video is pretty dense with really great info.

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[–] • 1 pt

But all he does here is point out the conflation of carbs with sugar and proceeds to do the exact same thing in the other direction. Any rational person knows that a bagel contains a half cup of flour, which contains no sugar. Therefore not all carbs in a bagel can be sugar.

[–] • 2 pts

All carbohydrates are sugar. The only difference between any carbohydrate and another is how many sugar molecules are chained together. When you digest them the chains are broken and they're plain old sugar again in your blood.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

Carbs metabolize into glucose, same as sugar. It's all sugar.

[–] • -1 pt

it is all sugar because it can be metabolized into glucose

I got bad news for you champ, by this logic everything is sugar

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

You're flaunting your ignorance. Protein and fats don't metabolize into glucose.

[–] • 1 pt

True. Just adding a bit of repetition so that people absorb the info.

[–] • 0 pt

Flour = 70%+ starch = sugars in the blood