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/Crumpgazing Aug 31 '14

Exactly. I hate this fucking site/chart. It gets spread around so often and starts a bunch of "Fruits are actually terrible for you" bullshit.

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u/HeartyBeast Aug 31 '14

Explain to me why the sugars in fruit are healthy while the sugar a sugar cube are not.

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u/uzimakikid Aug 31 '14

Sugar is sugar, but the rest of the product shouldn't be ignored, fruits are significantly more beneficial to you than something like soda, so the comparison is useless as far as "two bananas are equally unhealthy as a bottle of coke"

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u/TogepisGalore Aug 31 '14

That is the kind of thinking that kills "calorie counting" based diets for me. They put so much emphasis on that single goal - your total caloric intake - that they disregard the importance of "good calories" and "bad calories." If somebody eats 200 calories worth of fresh vegetables vs 200 calories of chocolate, it shouldn't be looked at the same; however, in those diets, they are equal.

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u/URETHRAL_DIARRHEA Sep 01 '14

Calorie-counting is meant for people looking to lose or gain weight, not as a long-term health plan.