I keep telling you that sugar doesn’t make you fat.
This newsletter is growing by leaps and bounds, so the Cookster, that’s me, is getting a lot of criticism for my well-reasoned and proven stand on sugar not making you fat.
But I will continue bringing you the truth, analysis and studies that they don’t want you to see.
In this case, we’re talking about eating huge amounts of sugar and not getting fat.
You can eat as much sugar as you want. And starch too.
Because starch turns into sugar in your body. So you can eat as much starch as you want.
However, the starch will ferment in the gut, and that can create endotoxins that cause problems in the body, especially if your health is already in a compromised state.
Sugar is safer because sugar is absorbed into the body before it enters very far into the gut.
Unless you have small intestine bacterial overgrowth or SIBO, you really don’t have to worry about eating sugar.
So the researchers in the study decided that they want to test which sugars make you fat.
Like almost all researchers today, they believe that sugar, and especially fruit sugar or fructose, is the very devil.
They believe sugar causes the obesity that is so prevalent — not only in the United States, but around the world.
See, if they could have, they would’ve stated in the subject of the study that chronic consumption of fructose-rich soft drinks causes obesity.
But they couldn’t… because it didn’t.
Instead, what happened in this lab was so shocking that I doubt the scientists have recovered.
They gave one group of rats Coke to drink.
Coke with high fructose corn syrup.
They gave another group of rats just water, and still another group Diet Coke.
Then they sacrificed the rats and did some analysis on their tissues to find out the effects.
The “R” group got Coke.
The “L” group got Diet Coke.
The “C” group (“C” stands for “Control”) got plain water.
So the rats that drank Coke drank a lot of Coke. Voluntarily. These poor rats loved Coke! (The sugary kind.)
In fact, they drank so much Coke that they had the equivalent of 8000 calories a day of sugar, mostly fructose.
And their triglycerides went up. About 50%
That’s true, but did their weight go up? Did they get fat and obese?
You would think so, right?
I mean that they were practically drowning in high fructose corn syrup. And yet…
THE CALORIC INTAKE OF [THESE] ANIMALS…WAS APPROXIMATELY FOUR TIMES HIGHER… HOWEVER, THERE WAS NO SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE IN BODY WEIGHT.
More proof that sugar and fruit sugar does not make you fat.
I don’t recommend that you consume quarts and quarts of high fructose corn syrup loaded Coke.
But I don’t think it will hurt you that much either.
In fact, this is more evidence that consuming more sugar may actually be healthier, and help your weight loss.
The scientists who did the study were so shocked that they tried to figure out a reason why these rats consuming thousands and thousands of calories a day were not getting fat.
The best they could come up with was that the Coke contained some caffeine, and the caffeine somehow stimulated these rats’ metabolism so much that they didn’t gain weight.
However, many people consume this much caffeine routinely in coffee, and they don’t suddenly lose a ton of weight, so it’s clearly not the caffeine that has this powerful effect.
It is simply that
sugar doesn’t make you fat!
If you scratch the surface of what does make you fat today, you’ll find that it’s consumption of polyunsaturated fatty acids, or PUFAs.
PUFAs have been a huge part of our diet only in recent years, and that has led to high inflammation in the body, obesity, heart disease, erectile dysfunction, and a host of other health problems.
Once you get rid of the PUFAs, you can eat all the sugar you want, and you’re not going to gain weight.
But beware of fat plus sugar.
If you consume massive amounts of sugar, and you also consume a lot of fat, you will get fat.
And you’ll get fat even if the fat you consume is healthy fat.
It doesn’t matter– you have to keep your fat LOW if you consume this much sugar.
Is it healthy to eat this much sugar? What about triglycerides? Remember, the high sugar eating, Coke drinking rats had 50% higher triglycerides.
Personally, my triglycerides were much higher when I consumed a low-carb high-fat diet.
Triglycerides are a mechanism where your body moves fat around. Fat is not soluble in water.
Blood is mostly water, so in order to transport fat in your blood, one of the things your body can do is create triglycerides out of that fat.
When you eat a lot of fat, your triglycerides are high because the fat you eat has to be moved from your gut into your fat tissue.
If you eat a ton of sugar, your triglycerides may be a bit high.
I’m not sure of that so bad.
The triglycerides were certainly elevated in the high fructose rats, they are the “R” group, remember 326 versus 229 for the “C” group of rats (water only).
But this is an extreme example. They were not allowed fresh water, only Coke.
Can you imagine?
And really, the outcome is still quite shocking, isn’t it?
I think I’ll drink a Coke right now. (A Mexican all-cane-syrup Coke.)
Citations
Chronic consumption of fructose rich soft drinks alters tissue lipids of rats
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2913938/
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