The statements on this page have not been approved by the FDA. That’s just as well, because, like all scientists, no one believes anything they say anymore, except for some of the people that work there, a few of their family members, and a couple of their friends.
I’ve done a number of them since the ’80s. Some of which I made up myself. None have really worked.
Sugar is bad. Well, everyone says it is. And now that I’m an American, it’s added to almost everything without anyone even asking me. Unless Sally works really hard to find food that’s made more like us Australians are used to.
So, added sugar is bad. Everyone agrees on that. But I think it’s simpler than that. All sugar is bad. None of this “naturally-occurring” excuse. (More on that further below.)
So I tried an experiment. I made a list of the total sugar content percentage by weight of every food I could find in Sally’s pantry, plus a ton of others that came into my mind. I sorted them by this percentage. And then I color-coded them.
Green and blue: as much as I want.
Orange and red: nope. Never. Well, a piece of Key Lime Pie where it was invented. But nothing else.
I’m ignoring them all. We’ve tried those.
I just go by the sugar list. If it’s green or blue, I eat as much as I like.
This is a tough one. It has no sugar. But I have a feeling that alcohol is almost as bad. (Again, more on that below.)
So I try to avoid it now. Except when celebrating. But definitely no sugary cocktails.
The jury is still out on this part.
I think it’s like Ozempic, or any other semaglutide. I’m disappearing in the right places, and keeping all the good bits.
No cost.
No side effects.
Other than no longer having the roller coaster of appetite that was probably just a series of sugar cycles. Hours after I would have normally needed a meal, I feel fine. And when I do eat I can eat as much or as little as I like. Pig out if I feel like it. If it’s green or blue.
Just a crazy theory, but I now believe that we’re not supposed to consume sugars beyond the 3–4% level. They are used within our bodies to deliver energy, but I believe that ingesting them directly short-circuits our internal processes. Just like if you indiscriminately injected insulin into yourself. Both are critical chemicals, but our bodies make them.
The potential connection with semaglutide is that I think that it’s not directly the energy content of sugar that is the problem, it’s the fact that it short-circuits our internal processes. Which is fundamentally controlled by our brains. Semaglutide fixes other brain chemistry problems, or quite possibly exactly the same ones. But I believe it to be a Band-Aid on top of the sugar consumption.
It’s just a theory, but it works.
Alcohol: it seems good, at first, because its sugars have all been converted to ethanol. But that itself is a problem. The body treats that as a toxin and suspends all other work to try to get rid of it. It gets converted into yet another form of energy that the brain and other parts of the body can use. So it’s an even more direct problem.
So I avoid it. Almost always.
Likewise, I now look at ingested sugar as a toxin.
I ignore it. Diabetics, whose systems are already shot, need to worry about it. I just want to keep things simple.
I don’t care if the body converts other foods into sugars. That’s what the body does. Let it worry about that.
We’ve had so much stupid dietary advice over the decades that it’s time to throw it all out and start with one variable at a time. Cut out sugars (and, preferably, alcohol). Consume as much as you want of everything else.
You don’t even need to ask that question. There’s now so much evidence that they completely screw up our brain chemistry that I don’t even need to tell you to avoid them like the plague, or Anthony Fauci. I wouldn’t be surprised if they were banned outright one day.
If not, do not read this section.
If you’re Jewish, Christian, or Muslim, you already know about the Forbidden Fruit. The sweet fruit. That was brought across to the Hebrew people. Snuck into the garden. That they were told not to eat. Don’t listen to that attractive importer.
Well, you know what fucking happened when they did.
They got fat. They were so embarrassed that they hid behind trees and covered themselves up with fig leaves. No more hot bodies.
Their life expectancies dropped dramatically. No more living “forever.”
If you survived to age five, then you could expect no more than forty or fifty more years of life. With sugar. (Pretty well the same life expectancy at age five as in 1900. Were you also scammed by the myth that life expectancy was much lower in the past? Mathematically true, but a lie by omission: it’s due to those first five years, which used to be a lot more dangerous.)
Sugar ages you.
Cutting it out is easier than all that other horrific stuff you’re doing to yourselves.
Muslims: you know that Muhammad also got the memo about alcohol. I think he was right.
Pork: Jews and Muslims got that memo. Christ missed that one, or no one wrote it down. I believe the rule was set because pork doesn’t smell bad enough when it goes off. Our internal detection system (our nose) fails for pork.
Well, we invented refrigerators and health departments. You can repeal that one now. Pork is good. But it’s a free country.
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