This is the most nuanced and well thought out take on sugar I’ve seen; thank you for writing it. I agree with almost everything here. I suspect that even if some part of diet Twitter were to figure out a relatively complete solution to diabesity (~98 percent of the population can eat to satiety and have great energy levels, bmi, and metabolic health when eating within the bounds of this solution) it will be too complex to be practically implemented throughout society without some sort of top down controls,
I’d also like to emphasize that there probably are certain phenotypes of person whom can eat very high sugar diets, and given the correct conditions (low pufa, potentially low fat in general) and have great outcomes.
I’m interested to see how the honey diet performs long term. Short term it’s a slam dunk for many, but perhaps it will form some long term health problems.
This is the most nuanced and well thought out take on sugar I’ve seen; thank you for writing it. I agree with almost everything here. I suspect that even if some part of diet Twitter were to figure out a relatively complete solution to diabesity (~98 percent of the population can eat to satiety and have great energy levels, bmi, and metabolic health when eating within the bounds of this solution) it will be too complex to be practically implemented throughout society without some sort of top down controls,
I’d also like to emphasize that there probably are certain phenotypes of person whom can eat very high sugar diets, and given the correct conditions (low pufa, potentially low fat in general) and have great outcomes.
I’m interested to see how the honey diet performs long term. Short term it’s a slam dunk for many, but perhaps it will form some long term health problems.
Thank you.
High levels of fructose, especially in combination with a high-PUFA load, can be problematic, especially for the liver.
I recommend looking at this other article, which offers an evolutionary perspective on fructose intake for primates like humans: https://mindandmatter.substack.com/p/dietary-fructose-and-metabolic-health?utm_source=publication-search
See also this one, touching on some of the latest research linking high fructose intake to cancer via fat metabolism: https://mindandmatter.substack.com/p/fructose-and-the-cooking-goth?utm_source=publication-search