25-10-2025, 02:36 AM
"sugary food? oh, like chocolate, ice cream, donuts, starbucks drinks, cookies?"
no, dumbfuck.
here's some stereotypically 'sugary' foods listed by the percentage of calories from fat and carbs (lumping sugar and carbs together, because they're the same fucking thing - although my point would be made even stronger if i separated the fluffy healthy starchy carbys from the evil nasty scary glucose):
hmm, so all the stereotypically 'sugary' foods actually contain a pretty even split between carbs and fats - and in some cases, the fat content even exceeds the sugar. and yet these are the foods that get used are demonised as 'sugar bombs'. strange.
why is it that these are the majority of the foods that show up when you search "sugary food" into google?
![[Image: iStock-sugar.jpg]](https://keck.usc.edu/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/68/2023/11/iStock-sugar.jpg)
(THAT'S A LOT OF DONUTS, CONSIDERING THE TYPICAL KRISPY KREME DONUT IS MAJORITY FAT. A BIT STRANGE?)
ok, well there must be truly sugary foods that are the cause of obesity, or why would sugar be so widely demonised? like fizzy drinks (soda) for example?
a large coca-cola from mcdonald's (500ml in UK) has 186 calories (100% from sugar). that's slightly less than two medium-sized apples. or, the same calories of a third of a big mac. really cba doing the math rn, but let's just say that the calories from the sugary drink are miniscule compared to the fat coming from the rest of a mcdonald's meal.
SCARY WHITE SUGAR...
we've all seen pictures like the one below (showing the amount of sugar in various drinks). look how much is in the coca-cola! oooooh scary! it looks like cocaine or something!
yeah... not really very scary when you think about it for two seconds. the amount of sugar in a can of coca-cola is only 136 calories, which is the same as a large banana. so really, just a poor manipulation technique that works because people don't typically sit down to eat a bag of plain white sugar.
![[Image: Xo8qOq101ub-IfurKgC72k_oyUpUmyaB4aT_rAS8...445b8f0847]](https://external-preview.redd.it/Xo8qOq101ub-IfurKgC72k_oyUpUmyaB4aT_rAS88vo.jpg?auto=webp&s=604c1b1146034c1bd6f5dde043c9ee445b8f0847)
just some food for thought.
this leads somewhere deeper, but i won't be discussing it now.
no, dumbfuck.
here's some stereotypically 'sugary' foods listed by the percentage of calories from fat and carbs (lumping sugar and carbs together, because they're the same fucking thing - although my point would be made even stronger if i separated the fluffy healthy starchy carbys from the evil nasty scary glucose):
- Cadbury chocolate: 54% from carbs, 31% from fat
- Crumbl cookie: 55% from carbs , 41% from fat
- Ben & Jerry’s Vanilla: 36% from carbs , 59% from fat
- Krispy Kreme Original Glazed Doughnut: 44% from carbs, 52% from fat
- Snickers bar: 52% from carbs, 43% from fat
- Starbucks, White Chocolate Mocha: 48% carbs, 39% fat
hmm, so all the stereotypically 'sugary' foods actually contain a pretty even split between carbs and fats - and in some cases, the fat content even exceeds the sugar. and yet these are the foods that get used are demonised as 'sugar bombs'. strange.
why is it that these are the majority of the foods that show up when you search "sugary food" into google?
(THAT'S A LOT OF DONUTS, CONSIDERING THE TYPICAL KRISPY KREME DONUT IS MAJORITY FAT. A BIT STRANGE?)
ok, well there must be truly sugary foods that are the cause of obesity, or why would sugar be so widely demonised? like fizzy drinks (soda) for example?
a large coca-cola from mcdonald's (500ml in UK) has 186 calories (100% from sugar). that's slightly less than two medium-sized apples. or, the same calories of a third of a big mac. really cba doing the math rn, but let's just say that the calories from the sugary drink are miniscule compared to the fat coming from the rest of a mcdonald's meal.
SCARY WHITE SUGAR...
we've all seen pictures like the one below (showing the amount of sugar in various drinks). look how much is in the coca-cola! oooooh scary! it looks like cocaine or something!
yeah... not really very scary when you think about it for two seconds. the amount of sugar in a can of coca-cola is only 136 calories, which is the same as a large banana. so really, just a poor manipulation technique that works because people don't typically sit down to eat a bag of plain white sugar.
just some food for thought.
this leads somewhere deeper, but i won't be discussing it now.
