Comments by "JLH" (@Kyarrix) on "Cancer FEEDS On These Two Things! - AVOID THIS To Prevent Disease | Dr. Thomas Seyfried" video.
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@sailorman8668 Sugar is more of a problem than other carbohydrates. First, only the liver can process fructose, every other cell in the body can use glucose. Simple table sugar is 50% fructose. Much of the sugar added to processed food is fructose. There are at last count 65 different names for added sugar in processed food, many of them derived from fructose. This is a tremendous problem and a primary cause behind the epidemic of NAFLD (non-alcoholic fatty liver disease) in children and adults.
Dr Robert Lustig has written about this at length. If you are not someone who enjoys books, he has lots of videos on the topic as well. It isn't simply sugar, it is which sugar and what the body does with it. Of course it would be better to get rid of all of it but one form of it is acutely toxic and crucial to address. When approaching people who are new to a topic it is often better to start with one change versus telling them that they have to overhaul their entire diet. A demand for a huge change is likely to be rejected.
I wonder what is behind your attitude. Why would you take the approach that the person you're responding to doesn't understand and only you are there to enlighten them? What is behind the overt condescension verging on outright rudeness? I generally don't take the time to respond to people with your approach but in the interests of clarification and for anyone else reading these comments I will this time.
To begin with, my comment wasn't addressing the entire issue, I was responding to something Dhru said. He restated Dr Seyfried's position inaccurately. That is why I did not go into the entire issue with all of its confounding factors. I'll do a little of that now.
Most Americans are not metabolically healthy. In the 70s people were eating processed food but they were still eating three meals a day, not eating from the time they woke up until bedtime. Dr Jason Fung discusses this in numerous videos and books. You can eat some processed food as long as you aren't eating it around the clock. It's better to avoid it entirely but in the 70s people ate it and were still generally healthy.
Can you eat some pasta? Yes, if you're metabolically healthy you can have some pasta with your salmon or steak or whatever healthy protein you happen to be eating. Healthy fats, including saturated fats are important too. Sugar is okay in moderation depending on the rest of your diet. You can have a slice of cake at a celebration as long as you don't have it at every meal. Americans eat dessert routinely for breakfast. Cereals with sugar in them, Pop-Tarts, pastries, all of the processed breakfast foods, many of them aimed at children, all of these are in effect dessert. The same is true for simple carbohydrates. You can have a sandwich as long as you aren't eating Pop-Tarts or cereal for breakfast, a sandwich for lunch, low fat muffins mid-morning since you are hungry again (the low fat craze is a factor in all of this) sugar sweetened coffee and sodas throughout the day and then processed food at dinner time. It is the entirety of the issue.
Pivoting a moment to low fat, Ancel Keys has a lot to answer for. When President Eisenhower had his heart attack in 1955, Ancel Keys was in part tasked with determining what was behind the problem with the American diet. A lot has been written about the Seven Countries study. To summarize, it was a lot of cherry picked data that confused mild correlation with causation and ignored the many countries that did not fit his hypothesis. The result of the study was our food pyramid with its emphasis on carbohydrates. Keys believed that dietary fat, particularly saturated fat, was responsible for heart disease. He was wrong. His contemporary, Professor John Yudkin, author of Pure White and Deadly did his best to be heard and provided evidence that sugar was the primary culprit. He had written several books on low carb as a means of losing weight and was extremely well respected for a time. He criticized Ancel Keys' study because he knew Keys was wrong and that the recommendations he was implementing were going to do great harm. Unfortunately Ansel Keys had a lot more power and the result of the conflict was Professor Yudkin being relegated to what Dr Lustig has termed the dust bin of history. I'm glad that Professor Yudkin's reputation is being restored, particularly in light of current research.
The food pyramid, based on bad research as it was, demonized dietary fat and replaced it with carbohydrates. When you process food and take the fat out you have to put something in and that something is invariably a form of sugar.
The result of all of this was a food pyramid that rejected healthy dietary fat and promoted carbohydrates. Processed food was becoming more common and the companies making these foods endeavored to provide people with what they wanted, and what they wanted was low fat. That meant higher sugar. All of this became a perfect storm and led to the mess we have now. People grew up being told to eat every few hours, that this was necessary "for their metabolism." They ate processed foods but they ate low fat! They thought low fat was good but when you eat low fat and high sugar you are effectively on an insulin roller coaster (leading to metabolic disease and eventually diabetes) where you are hungry all the time and eat every few hours. They would eat a low fat muffin or some cookies mid-morning. Then lunch with more of the same, then an afternoon snack, then dinner then a night time snack. All of it low in saturated fat and high in processed carbohydrates and pro-inflammatory vegetable and seed oils. We got rid of trans fats but pro-inflammatory vegetable and seed oils are almost as bad in the amounts they are eaten. And the fact that they are unstable and prone to oxidization is an additional problem.
Eating this way has resulted in an epidemic of obesity, type 2 diabetes, NAFLD, and there is increasing evidence that it is also responsible for the increase in Alzheimer's disease. So much so that Alzheimer's is now referred to as type 3 diabetes.
What you seem to be confused about to borrow some of your attitude, is that there have been societies where people have eaten tremendous amounts of carbohydrates and been very healthy. It isn't the simple fact of the carbohydrate, it has to do more with the entire food environment. When you eat, how much you eat, whether the food is processed or not.
A person who eats a lot of processed food with its load of fructose, glucose and pro-inflammatory seed oils is not going to be someone who can healthily eat a bowl of rice or cereal because their carbohydrate load is already too high. They are already metabolically sick.
I ended up spending more time on this than I had planned to. I also edited out a lot of the irritation I felt at your condescension. If that was your goal, to provoke, you succeeded but I'm not sure why you would want to do that. What do you gain from it?
Perhaps next time you might consider that the person you are responding to does indeed know what they are talking about and instead of sneering you might ask a question to clarify.
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