I’ve been doing a lot of research to guide my diet. Everyone knows that too much sugar will cause weight gain. It’s worse than that.
The video below outlines how fructose (from high-fructose corn syrup and plain old table sugar) really destroys the human metabolic process with chronic usage.
Glucose, a simpler sugar, can cause weight gain, but without as much other damage. How do you get glucose? By eating starchy carbs. So, a piece of bread, which I generally avoid, is still better than a comparable number of calories of sugar.
You don’t believe it? Watch the video below. It’s 90 minutes, but is completely worth it.
My “paleodiet” avoids the issue neatly by avoiding most carbs, including sugar and HFCS.
The biggest change you can make with the smallest effort is give up all drinks except milk and water (and unsweetened tea or coffee). This means no fruit juice too folks.