How much does sugar affect you?

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I can't eat sugar or simple carbs on an empty stomach or I feel ill immediately. So can only eat sweets as dessert.

Thanks for the info! I haven't entirely dropped grains, damn things are as addictive as crack.

I tend to eat a lot of nuts, seeds and legumes instead of meat. The thing about fatty meat is interesting. The media tells us to stop eating fat, but since I started eating full fat versions of things, I feel much better. If I do dairy (and I do sometimes, but I process it into kefir) I get full fat milk for example.

Do you ever eat raw meat? I know some paleo dudes do.

I eat a lot of nuts - mostly walnuts because I try to watch my omega 3:6 ratio. I do also spring for grass fed ground beef for the omega 3s, though for more expensive cuts I don't go for the grass fed. I do avoid legumes because they are not paleo; peanuts and peanut oil in particular are high in omega 6s. It sounds like the legumes are the main difference between what you do and paleo.

I personally do not eat meat raw, though I know some who do; cooking is allowed on the paleo diet. I do have my steaks very rare, which is essentially raw in the middle.

..Nahhh!! "social networking?!?!?" (doh!! like why else would you use the net?! !?!? sd)

better to talk to you own community..sugar...it's good stuff..gives you energy in a world were energy is lacking..OK it rots your teeth but it rotted Queen Victoria's teeth and I don't exactly think she complained did she..

Sugars and high fructose corn syrup have no effects on me. Same with caffeine. I drank two Monsters today and and don't feel anything.

Actually, fruit contains a LOT of fructose. That's why it's called "Fructose". It's fruit sugar.

Foods highest in fructose

As expected, this list puts soda at the top--quickly followed by various sorts of fruits and fruit juices.

Nope, it doesn't affect me in any way i'm afraid, yet it does after a while keep me awake after a few minutes and then back to being exhausted again...

Caffeine, well that's a different story...

In earlier years I ran on sugar... no I do better with reduced sugar, but grains. Sometimes chocolate and cake, but the amounts are nothing compared to the amounts I ate before (cake for breakfast etc. ...).

A bit is fine for me and helps me stand the day. For emergency case I have a small sweet always with me. I never drink sugar in tea or coffee, don´t like soft drinks, so it´s fine for me.
And I have one day per week "Decadence day"

But I hate sweetener. The effect, the bitter aftertaste, everything. I get hungry from it, my system thinks it gets sugar, gets none and drives mad.

Why? Is it a different chemical when it's found naturally?

fructose causes less of the problems described, than does sucrose.

too much of anything is dangerous

I'm getting ready to go off sugar for awhile. I noticed major improvements in myself when I went off gluten. I've recently slipped up on that and need to get back on track with it.