Fat was the sustenance rogue of last couple of decades. However, sugar is rapidly taking its place. As rates of sugar related issues creep up, fat is rapidly become a lesser evil for those who cannot take care of their eating habits.
The recent rise in interminable infections is connected to higher sugar utilization according to recent research. Dr. Robert Lustig, from the branch of paediatrics, has become a well known writer and researcher pertaining to the subject of sugar’s impacts on the body, needed clearer answers. Presently, in a paper distributed this Tuesday, he and his associates have come upon a conclusion where the team has termed sugar as poisonous.
According to Dr. Lustig, the recent rise of various chronic diseases is due to a higher consumption of sugar. However, along with his team at the University of California, Dr. Lustig had to prove his theory.
In most tests conducted in the laboratories, dosages of sugar are kept extremely high since they want to see what the effect is quickly and depending on the research, the team might not have time to wait and study the more gradual effects that would occur.
In studies, where people end up cutting down on the amount of sugar they eat, these people end up eating fewer calories overall so it becomes difficult to find out if any such changes are due to the removal of sugar or to the drop in calories.
Lustig and his team are now confident that they’ve finally created “hard and fast data that sugar is toxic irrespective of its calories and irrespective of weight.”
This conviction originates from the one of a kind study, depicted in Obesity, of 43 Hispanic and African-American kids aged eight to 18.
Lustig gathered detailed food questionnaires from every subject of his research in order to find out how many calories they ate per day on an average, before designing a menu for each one of them for nine days based on the number of calories they would normally consume. However, the only difference during the nine-day diet plan was that most of the sugar the children ate was replaced by starch while the overall number of calories was not changed. The children were weighed on a daily basis and in case they were losing weight, they were told to eat more of the provided food in order to keep their weight the same throughout the research.
Lustig says that there was visible improvement during those nine days as some of the children went from being insulin resistant to insulin sensitive.
“We took chicken teriyaki out, and put turkey hot dogs in. We took sweetened yogurt out, and put baked potato chips in. We took pastries out and put bagels in,” says Lustig. “So there was no change in [the children’s] weight and no change in calories.”
However, not everyone is entirely convinced that the results prove anything about the toxicity of sugar. For instance, Susan Roberts, a professor of Nutrition at the USDA Nutrition Center at Tufts University, believes that shedding some pounds may also have contributed to the overall improvement of metabolic measures among the test subjects. Moreover, she feels that since the children were asked to self-report their initial diet, it could also have been inaccurate.
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