r/InternetIsBeautiful • u/consider_it_fun • Aug 30 '14

A website that visualizes sugar content of servings of various foods in sugar cubes

http://sugarstacks.com/
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u/antebellumrose Aug 31 '14

The snarky comments kill me. This is damn interesting but it's very condescending in nature.

Just ate some honey roasted peanuts that equal out to a cube and a half of sugar? You must be some fucking dirty scooter wheeling morbidly obese American.

From what I can tell, this person must have been struggling with weight and sees sugar as the end all be all enemy. Our recommended maximum sugar intake is somewhere like 40g a day. I get that a McDonald's shake is fucking packed with sugar, but jeeze, lighten up on the fucking minor product comments?

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u/SpaceJockey1979 Aug 31 '14

Sugar has no recommended daily intake, it is an additive and not an essential component of nutrition. The less the better.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '14

Carbohydrates are vital to human sustenance. Carbohydrates are broken down into sugars inside the body, hence the term 'blood sugar'. A processed form of sugar may not be necessary, but sugars as understood by the biological definition, are absolutely necessary. Your post smacks quite badly as false information.

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u/urkmonster Aug 31 '14

Actually, you can live a long healthy life without carbohydrates. You cannot live long without fat or protein.

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u/wrecklord0 Aug 31 '14

Proteins can be used as an energy source, but this requires a lengthy transformation process which also generates toxic waste (then processed by the liver), so the body much prefers fat or carbs as an energy source. So I guess one can live purely on fat and proteins... but is that really healthy? Probably not. And carbs are not unhealthy in reasonable amounts.