Surely sweets are more likely to rot your teeth than make you fat?
Although, that may be a little late for many on here (myself included)

Alt: I'm not actually sure, I think it's chicken curry, I just grabbed it out of my freezer.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 22 Sep 2011, 11:32, 1 reply, 14 years ago)

sugar turns to fat if you don't burn it off
sitting at my desk is not a good way to burn off sugar.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 22 Sep 2011, 11:37, Reply)

Ahh, good point, well made
That explains why I piled on weight drinking nothing but Lucozade when I started here.

Well, that and other things
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 22 Sep 2011, 11:38, Reply)

everything turns to fat if you don't burn it off.
sugar's hardly any more or less guilty.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 22 Sep 2011, 11:46, Reply)

yes it is
because it has no nutritional benefits!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 22 Sep 2011, 11:47, Reply)

But Haribo tastes nom
Therefore benefit
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 22 Sep 2011, 11:47, Reply)

Haribo's latest advert can fuck right off.

( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 22 Sep 2011, 11:49, Reply)

Agreed
Don't fuck with Haribo.
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 22 Sep 2011, 11:49, Reply)

In an advert where the hook is a 'catchy' song
you'd think they could get four people who weren't actually tone deaf. But no...
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 22 Sep 2011, 11:52, Reply)

Just makes me want to jam the kids head in a door
Then his Dad's
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 22 Sep 2011, 11:54, Reply)

one word in your sig
is nearly the bloke's surname. i keep seeing it and jumping!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 22 Sep 2011, 11:57, Reply)

Of course it does.
Sugar is what your cells run on. It keeps you alive.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 22 Sep 2011, 11:48, Reply)

cancer eats sugar
it loves the stuff
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 22 Sep 2011, 11:51, Reply)

All cells use sugar.
glucose is the only thing that cells can respire with. without sugar we'd all be dead. We don't have to get it from refined sugar, we can get it from complex carbs or even protein, but it all ends up broken down to sugar in the end for cells to use

/did someone seriously tell you that cancer cells use sugar more than every other cell in your body or are you taking the piss?
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 22 Sep 2011, 11:53, Reply)

haha sort of
what i read said that refined processed white sugar is the worst shit you can pump into your body and should be avoided at all costs. then it went on to say that "cancer loves it" - you take the point. it was dumbed-down for idiots but hopefully in a way that would make them more likely to eat their sugar in a banana than a crunchie.




mmmm. crunchie.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 22 Sep 2011, 11:56, Reply)

Course it isn't
your body runs on glucose and other simple sugars. it needs to extract glucose from whatever it is given. Refined white sugar is no better or worse for you than any other thing you could eat as a fuel. Sucrose (white refined sugar) is a dimer of glucose and fructose. Arguably it is THE best fuel short of eating glucose, which doesn't taste very nice.

Complex carbs are only better for you because they take a while to break down so they don't spike your blood sugar so much. At the end of the day it's simply an energy balance whatever form you take your sugar in.

And eating refined sugar or not has not the tiniest effect on any form of cancer, believe me.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 22 Sep 2011, 12:03, Reply)

dude, i checked out when i said the word crunchie
i'm now just hanging on in here until i can go and get my soup to stop me wanting a crunchie.

/homer
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 22 Sep 2011, 12:06, Reply)