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Originally posted by brecaidra:
I would add erythritol to this list. It's similar to xylitol but with a smaller molecular structure, so it's easier to digest.

Thanks for that info, brecaidra. I meant to add that too much xylitol can upset your stomach. I wasn't aware of erythritol.

If you have dogs be careful. Some of these sweeteners, like Xylitol, are deadly poison for dogs.

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Originally posted by cas:
I work with a guy who I would say eats a normal amount of carbs, but he probably eats above average. He's constantly eating whole bags of chips, popcorn and pretzels. He eats candy every day, many times all day. And I'm talking sugar! I've never seen a grownup eat Pixie Stix, but this guy in his late 50's downs them daily. lol His body fat is very low, his blood glucose levels and his teeth are fine.
I'm the exact opposite in what I can eat, unfortunately I learned it about 40 years too late. Several times in the past I'd cut out added sugar, all soda. ice tea etc, candy, cake etc... You know how much weight I lost? Between none and 5 lbs each time. Woopie! (and I drank a LOT of soda daily, thousands of calories).
It wasnt till I combined it with low carbs and intermittent fasting that I lost any weight. His body and my body obviously don't work the same way. lol

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Originally posted by thumperfbc:


I read time and again that stuff is all "chemically identical" or whatever, and I get it... But at the same time, I think there is a lot we don't know and I think our bodies are even more sophisticated than we give them credit for. We don't know what we don't know, and the chances that we know it all is pretty much zero. So while current science may say HFCS and honey are the same thing, I'm a skeptic.

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Originally posted by cas:
I work with a guy who I would say eats a normal amount of carbs, but he probably eats above average. He's constantly eating whole bags of chips, popcorn and pretzels. He eats candy every day, many times all day. And I'm talking sugar! I've never seen a grownup eat Pixie Stix, but this guy in his late 50's downs them daily. lol His body fat is very low, his blood glucose levels and his teeth are fine.
I'm the exact opposite in what I can eat, unfortunately I learned it about 40 years too late. Several times in the past I'd cut out added sugar, all soda. ice tea etc, candy, cake etc... You know how much weight I lost? Between none and 5 lbs each time. Woopie! (and I drank a LOT of soda daily, thousands of calories).
It wasnt till I combined it with low carbs and intermittent fasting that I lost any weight. His body and my body obviously don't work the same way. lol

His body is very sensitive to insulin. Yours isn't. That's the only difference. Your bodies work the exact same.

Your body simply has to release a lot more insulin to deal with the sugar in your blood than his does. Since he requires very little insulin to push that sugar into cells, his body can go back to burning stored fat much sooner than yours can.

insulin...it's all about the insulin.

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Originally posted by sakata8242:The sugar is chemically the same. What's different is the other compounds and substances found in a natural food like honey or fruit, vs. a highly refined food like pure white sugar or HFCS. This is where the "we don't know what we don't know" comes in. It's perhaps a subtle distinction, but important. Fructose is fructose. BUT -- the fructose and other forms of sugar found in countless natural foods do not exist in isolation and are not consumed in isolation like a refined sugar product.

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I think that's very true. Pretty hard to get fat eating apples, not so hard eating Snickers even though both contain sugar.