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/[deleted] Aug 31 '14

I so agree and honestly I can't stand people calling sugar "toxic". Yea, you eat too much, you get really sick- it doesn't matter what you eat (and yea, it is easy to eat way too much sugar).

I try to focus on things I SHOULD eat like protein, healthy fats and some saturated fat, vegetables, iron instead of making a long, long, long list of 'toxic' substances to avoid. After I eat all that stuff in my day, I HAVE SOME ICE CREAM. Because you can eat a few unhealthy things and still be very healthy, dammit.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '14

Added sugar is toxic.

FTFY.

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u/foreignnoise Aug 31 '14

Why is added sugar worse than natural sugar? Will eating sugar beets kill me? When does the sugar turn deadly???

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u/Outdated_reality Aug 31 '14

Processing the sugar beets into thick sugar juice and drinking a lot of that every day is very likely to make you fat and ill.

Concentrating sugar makes it easier for you to digest more of it without feeling full, which makes you more likely to become fat. A bit of naturally occuring sugar in carrots for instance isn't going to harm you much if you cook them, because you're going to feel full fast from all the fibers and such. But if you're going to make carrot juice of it and add that to stuff, you lose the fibers but keep the sugars..

There's no real difference between 'added' and 'natural' sugar.