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Originally Posted by costello
I really think you don't understand who this book is aimed at. Honey is sugar. The people who need that book don't handle sugar well.
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No, I got that part. It's just that in the particular chapter where he rails against refined sugar, he completely fails to mention honey. I wondered if it was a cultural thing where perhaps not much honey is (/was) eaten in the US, or if it was for another reason.
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Originally Posted by costello
Ironically we're the same people who crave sugar the most.
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The psych drugs/coeliac disease messed up my system so much that I have no idea what I crave anymore. I've never wanted to eat wheat products (which is unsurprising in hindsight with the coeliac and all) but on some of the drugs I would eat four or five pounds of pasta at one sitting, or a whole loaf of bread. Even still, some days it's all I can do to choke down a salad and other days I can plow through an entire family-sized dessert. *shrugs*
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Originally Posted by costello
So if you don't have the metabolic issues of the typical Atkins dieter, I say go for it. Frankly if I were you, I'd go for the sugar.  |
I don't know what I have! All I know is that I look very thin, but I have a BMI of 24 and I feel roly-poly. I have bad PMS and heard that eliminating sugar could help. I also worry about diabetes because it's rife through my mother's family; but they're also all alcoholics.
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