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Whats Worse? Salt or Sugar?

Whats Worse for you? Salt or Sugar?

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Sugar adds calories, which leads to weight gain. Excess sugar is stored.

It's not possible to eat truly excessive amounts of salt.
 
Patrickt said:
What's really bad for me is other people nagging me about salt or sugar. Even strangers from the U.S. feel they have a right to tell me what to do.
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We have every right to tell you what to do, It takes a village.:mrgreen:
 
Mayor Snorkum said:
Sugar adds calories, which leads to weight gain. Excess sugar is stored.

It's not possible to eat truly excessive amounts of salt.
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It might make your feet swell up and then they'll make you wear pantyhose. I think that might get you to cut back a little
 
sazerac said:
I have swollen feet, For a couple of years. Really it come and goes. My sister is totality freaked about it. Swear it's not so bad. I have to use effort to pit on my shoes and a horn,

My doctor won;t give me lysics lysine? He wants me to wear like pantyhose! I'm thinking maybe NO! I use just a little of the nosalt but it seems to come and go at will. Like God's mad at me or not.

God looks so nice today! He's the best God ever. Has he been working out, ya think?
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Pass the doob already!
 
SE102 said:
Pass the doob already!
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Do you think I want feet that are even more swollen? Do you want God to be even more mad at me? He might start making my nose swell!
 
How is it worse? Or just in mass consumption in society in general?
 
SE102 said:
How is it worse? Or just in mass consumption in society in general?
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It's just ****ing unnatural and bad for you, and used in way too many food products. I refuse to consume anything with HFCS. I've felt better ever since.
 
Would make sense. Are you a granola type that goes for the local honey? (which is always very healthy for you) Do you spurn artificial sweeteners? Do you go for plain old sugar? (if it's even real sugar anymore)

I, personally chew on the sugar cane sticks harvested by the broken-backed-brownie slave children of the tropical regions of the earth.

(I don't mean anything by that btw)
 
SE102 said:
How is it worse? Or just in mass consumption in society in general?
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I just read an article in Prevention Mag about HFCS. The article says that HFCS the Fructose goes straight the liver whereas sugar does not...they metabolize differently and HFCS may cause higher and faster weight gain therefore contributing to the obesity epidemic. Am I saying this is fact? NO!! because I dont know.
The article also said there is a 3 yr study being conducted on HFCS right now and the results should become public in the summer.
 
Jetboogieman said:
Depends also on what kind of salt and sugar.

A lot of products have "sugar" but its really corn syrup, not too good for you. Organic cane sugar can be somewhat beneficial (not to mention tasty).

Iodized table salt is not very good for you either, but natural sea salt can be somewhat good for you.

The key in all this is quantity, too much of any salt and too much of any sugar can be bad for you.

Just know your limit! :2razz:
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Is there any proof of this ?
To the best of my knowledge, to the body sugar is sugar, salt is salt.
What counts is the balanced diet and exercise.
 
earthworm said:
Is there any proof of this ?
To the best of my knowledge, to the body sugar is sugar, salt is salt.
What counts is the balanced diet and exercise.
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Our bodies have never been exposed to glucose syrup or refined white sugar. They are human inventions. All sugars we ate in pre-industrial times were contained in the whole foods we ate. So yes, to the body it is still sugar, but it is at concentrations so high that it has toxic effects.
 
Sugar, excess sugar leads to excess calories. Excess weight has quite a few more problems than simply overdoing your salt.
 
Sugar is worse. Salt is bad for those who have high blood pressure. For all other's it's perfectly fine. Excess sugar is bad for everyone, it leads to weight gain which may also contribute to blood pressure problems where salt must be limited.
 
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