"sugar is culturally defined for us as a food"
Fucking jesus wept. "culturally defined" ? You might as well say breathing is "a lifestyle choice"

You are aware that every single organism on the planet - every one - relies on respiration to survive? respiration - that being the conversion of sugar (glucose specifically, about as refined as you can make it, seeing as it's reduced to its constituent carbon ring) and oxygen to carbon dioxide and water and ENERGY. Without this, you would be dead in a very short period of time.

Our bodies are remarkably adapted to break down sugar dimers if necessary (sucrose, lactose, maltose) or polymers (starch etc) into glucose, fructose and galactose and convert the monomer galactose to glucose for metabolism. If anything, refining sugar helps.

the only sugar that really causes problems is the one that you probably think is the best as it's "natural" - fructose. Because it requires a different metabolic pathway, is absorbed differently in the gut and is not regulated in the same way as glucose metabolism (it runs very fast and tends to veer towards long-term energy storage rather than short-term release). Hence one of the reasons why if you exist entirely on fruit you'll fairly rapidly make yourself quite unwell

However, it's Sunday, you're not paying me to teach you this shit, although thankfully I've never come across a student at any level with beliefs as idiotic as this - so I think I'll leave it there.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Sun 4 Dec 2011, 12:09, 1 reply)

strange how the OP hasn't responded to you here...

( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Sun 4 Dec 2011, 14:32, closed)

Blimey give me a break
this is all over the place
(CADmonkey rollllllllled another one, just like the other one, Sun 4 Dec 2011, 15:06, closed)

When you say "this", you are presumably referring to your increasingly bizarre and desperate attempts to justify being a moron, right?

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Sun 4 Dec 2011, 17:37, closed)