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I never claimed to know how much sugar?
You claimed that a certain sugar intake would result in a 100% risk-- that seems a rather foolish claim to make if you don't have any specifics or details.

No it's not, the only way one can eat a lot of sugar without getting diabetes is if they have immunity to insulin resistance.
Bollocks. Some people eat loads of sugar and don't develop diabetes. Others consume less sugar and do develop diabetes. Because these things aren't black and white, definite, effecting everyone identically.
 

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The levels being reached here to avoid saying "Sorry, I was being hyperbolic and exaggerated an extreme."

It's always the dumbest of shits who lack the ability to reflect on having mispoken, and not being the smartest person in the room on all things.

But I guess admitting it was an exaggeration also admits the point about the world existing in greys, rather than his black and white perspective.
 
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You claimed that a certain sugar intake would result in a 100% risk-- that seems a rather foolish claim to make if you don't have any specifics or details.



Bollocks. Some people eat loads of sugar and don't develop diabetes. Others consume less sugar and do develop diabetes. Because these things aren't black and white, definite, effecting everyone identically.
My dad smoked two and a half packs a day for decades and when he died, the doctors were surprised by how clean his lungs were. They were better than non-smokers

But then, I remember having an extended conversation with someone here about co-morbidities only giving you an increased chance of being seriously hurt by COVID. And it certainly does not mean that having fewer co-morbidities stopped you from being hurt, hence me knowing a national athlete who was bedridden by COVID for over a month and can no loner compete due to damage sustained to her body
 

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The levels being reached here to avoid saying "Sorry, I was being hyperbolic and exaggerated an extreme."
Yeah, it's pretty weird. I can't honestly wrap my head around it. Like, I can claim that everyone who drinks enough alcohol will get alcohol poisoning. And... sure it's still true even though there are people who drink excessive amounts of alcohol all the time and don't get alcohol poisoning, because that doesn't mean they are categorically immune to it.

My dad smoked two and a half packs a day for decades and when he died, the doctors were surprised by how clean his lungs were. They were better than non-smokers
That's a plain lie. Some people's lung tissue adjusts to the strain and damage better, sure, but humans don't have self-cleaning lungs that could clear all the shit that tobacco smoke brings in over the years.
 

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You claimed that a certain sugar intake would result in a 100% risk-- that seems a rather foolish claim to make if you don't have any specifics or details.



Bollocks. Some people eat loads of sugar and don't develop diabetes. Others consume less sugar and do develop diabetes. Because these things aren't black and white, definite, effecting everyone identically.
Yeah, if you eat too much sugar (which varies from person to person), you will eventually get diabetes.

Where is this person that eats loads of sugar that didn't develop diabetes?
 

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Yeah, if you eat too much sugar (which varies from person to person), you will eventually get diabetes.
So there's a 100% risk... but it's entirely individual? That seems pretty much impossible to demonstrate, so your source must be pretty rock solid. Where is it?

Where is this person that eats loads of sugar that didn't develop diabetes?



Diabetes is caused by eating too much sugar - FALSE
You may have wondered if eating too many sweets can cause diabetes. The simple answer is no.
With type 2 diabetes, the answer is a little more complex. Though we know sugar doesn’t directly cause type 2 diabetes, you are more likely to get it if you are overweight. You gain weight when you take in more calories than your body needs, and sugary foods and drinks contain a lot of calories.

So you can see if too much sugar is making you put on weight, then you are increasing your risk of getting type 2 diabetes. But type 2 diabetes is complex, and sugar is unlikely to be the only reason the condition develops.
So, if someone isn't overweight-- and their sugar intake isn't from particularly risk-indicating sources, like soft drinks-- they may well intake a lot of sugar from other sources and remain at relatively low risk of diabetes.
 

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So there's a 100% risk... but it's entirely individual? That seems pretty much impossible to demonstrate, so your source must be pretty rock solid. Where is it?












So, if someone isn't overweight-- and their sugar intake isn't from particularly risk-indicating sources, like soft drinks-- they may well intake a lot of sugar from other sources and remain at relatively low risk of diabetes.
"You may have wondered if eating too many sweets can cause diabetes. The simple answer is no. But there’s more to know before giving into those cravings for cookies, candy and sweetened drinks.

Because type 2 diabetes is not always linked to obesity and having diabetes means blood sugar levels are consistently too high
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Getting diabetes means blood sugar levels are consistently too high but sugar, somehow, doesn't cause increased blood sugar levels? What? How does that work? And you can technically eat a good amount of sugar if it comes with it's natural fiber, but people aren't consuming sugar with its natural fiber. Technically sugar isn't the only the thing that causes diabetes as sugar is not the only thing that is high on the glycemic index and causes blood sugar levels to increase as you can eat a ton of bread and refined grains (that become sugar) and get diabetes.

There's tons of horrible articles on nutrition, just because you found something that says I'm wrong doesn't mean I'm wrong (there's tons of articles that are wrong). Here's a CDC article about diabetes and look how much is wrong in there like saying to eat plenty of grains, saying butter/dairy/red meat/salt are bad, it's says saturated fats are bad for your heart, etc.

And for you last statement about not being overweight and being able to eat sugar, go to India and tell that to them.
 

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Getting diabetes means blood sugar levels are consistently too high but sugar, somehow, doesn't cause increased blood sugar levels? What? How does that work?
That's the difference between a symptom and a cause.

There's tons of horrible articles on nutrition, just because you found something that says I'm wrong doesn't mean I'm wrong (there's tons of articles that are wrong).
And this is why nobody bothers to respond to your constant requests for sources any more. Because whenever someone actually does, you'll just discount or dismiss them for various specious reasons. As soon as a source disagrees with you it's "horrible".

They are more authoritative than you. Suck it up, it's not as simple as you tried to persuade us.
 
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That's the difference between a symptom and a cause.



And this is why nobody bothers to respond to your constant requests for sources any more. Because whenever someone actually does, you'll just discount or dismiss them for various specious reasons. As soon as a source disagrees with you it's "horrible".

They are more authoritative than you. Suck it up, it's not as simple as you tried to persuade us.
You think sugar doesn't cause blood sugar to go up and high blood sugar doesn't cause insulin resistance?

Nutrition sources mainly misinformation because of the Ancel Keys hypothesis that everyone keeps thinking is right (to this day for some reason). I showed you the horrible CDC page on diabetes with all the misinformation.

Go tell your doctor that sugar doesn't cause diabetes and you will eat as much of it as you want and see what he/she says to that? Is me telling you guys to just eat real food that much of a reach for you? Because it's really just common sense in reality.
 

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That's a plain lie. Some people's lung tissue adjusts to the strain and damage better, sure, but humans don't have self-cleaning lungs that could clear all the shit that tobacco smoke brings in over the years.
Actually, the lungs are self-cleaning. They produce mucus, one of the functions of which is to trap particulates, and the mucus plus whatever it has captured is transported out to the throat. It's said that someone who smokes 20 a day will collect a cup of tar in their lungs every year. That sounds bad. (Well, it is bad.) However, in the context that your lungs generally produce more than a cup of mucus every week and potentially a cup every day to clear crap out, maybe it's not necessarily that bad - as long as everything continues to work well enough so that the mucus carries on getting rid of the tar.

Genetics can make a huge difference to susceptibility to disease, and lifestyle can likewise provide some major modifiers too. It is very possible that some people blessed with the right DNA and/or otherwise healthy living might be remarkably resistant to long-term damage.
 
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Actually, the lungs are self-cleaning. They produce mucus, one of the functions of which is to trap particulates, and the mucus plus whatever it has captured is transported out to the throat. It's said that someone who smokes 20 a day will collect a cup of tar in their lungs every year. That sounds bad. (Well, it is bad.) However, in the context that your lungs generally produce more than a cup of mucus every week and potentially a cup every day to clear crap out, maybe it's not necessarily that bad - as long as everything continues to work well enough so that the mucus carries on getting rid of the tar.

Genetics can make a huge difference to susceptibility to disease, and lifestyle can likewise provide some major modifiers too. It is very possible that some people blessed with the right DNA and/or otherwise healthy living might be remarkably resistant to long-term damage.
And some people conversely live so hard their organs age prematurely. Pretty sure that's what the pathologist said about Errol Flynn after he carked it.
 
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And some people conversely live so hard their organs age prematurely. Pretty sure that's what the pathologist said about Errol Flynn after he carked it.
Very likely. Excessive drug consumption, poor diet, lack of sleep, etc. - it's all going to add up.

I suspect a lot of issues - being overweight, little exercise, eating too much sugar, or fats, smoking, high alcohol consumption, etc. are on their own often relatively modest issues. It's when people start to combine several of them that the risks start adding up. Well, not necessarily adding up, but multiplying. If someone has a base 2% chance of stroke or heart attack in the next ten years, something that increases it 50% (i.e. to 3%) might be viewed as pretty trivial. Two of them, 4.5%. Three, nearing 7%. Four, around 10%. So things can mount up. And it's not just going to be that: chances are the risks of all manner of other things degrading or going wrong is also going up - kidneys, lungs, brain, liver, immune system etc. - which themselves might create additional risks.
 

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Smoking stains the lungs. Pollution stains the lungs too. Anthracosis of lung tissue doesn't clear if the exposure is constant. Inhaling smoke is the problem, and it goes into the tissue, and y'know, promotes more mucus production, because that's the mechanism lungs have. Lung mucus is fine for normal stuff like pollen to eventually get coughed up, but once it's in the cells it's pretty much stuck and macrophage activity practically doesn't have the time or capacity to ever clear it all.

My expectation was that Trunkage's late dad's lungs, the actual chainsmoked lungs, were looked at and supposedly deemed "better than non-smokers", because they were checked after he'd died. An x-ray might look fine and the man himself might have had a decent lung function despite all the smoking, but there is no damn way the organ itself macro- or microscopically outshined a non-smoker's lung.

They are more authoritative than you. Suck it up, it's not as simple as you tried to persuade us.
All of Phoenixmgs' health and nutrition comments point to the preference of some form of a "bacon only diet", or more specifically an animal product based low carb diet on top of an ego that absolutely hates statistics. Thus if somebody has a "bad diet" yet thrives it either won't last or they could just do better, and if somebody is unhealthy it's their own personal failing. Then there is the pop science or "bro science" part where one way simply works while imperfections in the opposition are used to discredit it completely.
 

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All of Phoenixmgs' health and nutrition comments point to the preference of some form of a "bacon only diet", or more specifically an animal product based low carb diet on top of an ego that absolutely hates statistics. Thus if somebody has a "bad diet" yet thrives it either won't last or they could just do better, and if somebody is unhealthy it's their own personal failing. Then there is the pop science or "bro science" part where one way simply works while imperfections in the opposition are used to discredit it completely.
When did I ever say to just eat meat? I only ever said to eat real foods, which include meat as well as obviously fruits, vegetable, nuts, dairy, eggs, etc. And that is somehow crazy talk? Grains are probably the sneakiest things people don't realize that are that bad for you. And fried foods are horrible for you and most people realize fried food is bad, but they eat too much of it (as fries come as a side to everything).

Diet alone is the biggest component of how healthy someone is as most diseases are directly caused by a bad diet. I bet some people will read that as me saying every disease is caused by a bad diet and I never said that, but that's how people read my posts here all the fucking time.
 

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You think sugar doesn't cause blood sugar to go up and high blood sugar doesn't cause insulin resistance?
Those things can happen and do happen, to various degrees for various people, with no risk ever reaching 100%.

Nutrition sources mainly misinformation because of the Ancel Keys hypothesis that everyone keeps thinking is right (to this day for some reason). I showed you the horrible CDC page on diabetes with all the misinformation.
Still not seeing any reason to trust a random Internet commentator above accredited experts.

Go tell your doctor that sugar doesn't cause diabetes and you will eat as much of it as you want and see what he/she says to that? Is me telling you guys to just eat real food that much of a reach for you? Because it's really just common sense in reality.
Ah, you've just exaggerated your opponent's claim into a mess of strawmen again, rather than engaging.
 
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Gurren Lagann is actually right-wing political fiction, change my mind.

Also, Libera Me From Hell (the version of that song where the rap is intermixed with opera) is one of my guilty pleasures. It really should be awful, but I love it.
 

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When did I ever say to just eat meat? I only ever said to eat real foods, which include meat as well as obviously fruits, vegetable, nuts, dairy, eggs, etc.
I didn't claim that. And ok, my bad then, the model plate of 1/2 greens, 1/4 side (and no, not a single recommendation guideline puts fries in there), and 1/4 meat/fish/egg/plant protein works fine as a good basis for both you and me then. For the rest of it I'm not going to bother - I doubt people take diet advice from this forum.
I bet some people will read that as me saying every disease is caused by a bad diet and I never said that, but that's how people read my posts here all the fucking time.
I doubt anyone reads it that way. I think the reason why these exchanges with you and some others drag on for so long is that they don't let you get away with bullshit.
Diet alone is the biggest component of how healthy someone is as most diseases are directly caused by a bad diet.
This is plenty enough to criticize you for. When you combine this mindset with the constant distrust of nutritional guidelines, it's essentially saying those guidelines (and the experts who have made them) peddle disease to people. And the peddling becomes almost intentional when you add that the "truth" or whatever is easily found. Then it follows that individuals who either follow those guidelines or not (but don't follow the "truth") are to blame for "most diseases" they get. Finally it points to the individual who gets sick that they brought it on themselves no matter what they actually did in the past.

It's an abhorrently egoistic mindset.

As a personal side note, I work in healthcare and it's a powerful feeling to rail on people for their self-caused bad health and their biases that on the surface seem idiotic (in the employee lunch room, of course), and there simply isn't enough time and energy to unpack that stuff, and on top of that it feels like a waste of time because there are people who are dealt with easier and faster and with better results. But it's my job to put my ego aside and find the angle of cooperation. On the shadow side my motivation for weight loss is a testament to that powerful emotion: harsh judgment of fat people and reflecting those feelings back into myself.
 
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