Sugar-Free Lent: Day Thirty-Eight!
I really want to know it! I'm starting to feel better but is sugar really that evil stuff? So I was doing a bit of research again on the Internet and I came across a video on YouTube where Dr. Robert Lustig gave a lecture about "The bitter truth" at the university of California in 2017.
I watched it all. It was quite a long video, about 1 and a half hours, not what I usually watch. I'm quite an impatient person so any video which is longer than 3 minutes has to be really good unless it is Daniel Barenboim playing Beethoven.
And it was really good but I do not pretend to have understood everything he was talking about. It was a lot about biochemistry, and some of it I did understand, like the alcohol gets partly metabolised in the brain, partly in the liver.
What I did understand was that sugar and alcohol have the same affect on the body apart from the fact that sugar doesn't get metabolised in the brain, only in the liver.
They both cause the same problems in the body and create the same diseases like obesity, diabetes, liver cirrhosis, fatty liver, high blood pressure and cardiovascular diseases.
Well, think about it: What is alcohol? It is fermented sugar!!!! So no wonder.
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