Yeah ok, but I think it is also clear at the same time that a lot of food that we eat today is much more sugary than the previous millions of years before that, and that we seem to be getting more and more problems with overweight and diabetes type 2.
So yeah in moderation everything is ok of course, but I do have the feeling that on average, we might be overdoing it a little bit with the sugar.
You are totally right. A honey crisp apple has a lot of fiber in it. 5,000 years ago outside of a few regions getting access to cane sugar would be difficult. Mango and pineapple somewhat easier but probably less sweet than today. This does concern me a lot. It’s sad when a restaurant sends you cut strawberry’s with sugar sprinkled on top. But sugar free chocolate just isn’t as good :)
I’m very interested to see ubiquitous continuous glucose monitors in action and the data we will get from that.
The high degree to which GLP-1 medicines work aide in your argument RE insulin quite a bit. I am just very suspect of all the keto claims (not made by you - just in general). If keto was a panacea then in the last 40 years we would have seen a bigger dent in obesity.
Aha, yeah, the keto hype is the pendulum swinging the extreme opposite way, and yeah there is a middle balance. I think keto is also an attempt to "cheat responsibly", because people have a hard time saying good bye to sweets, so all kinds of fancy keto sweeteners are promoted. But yeah I think it's eventually a bit futile, you're trying to fool yourself, and in the long run that doesn't work.
I think it is actually largely a psychological story. Food is like an addiction, a way of distracting yourself from the struggles of life. And addictive food (candy, snacks, fast food) is just the kind of drug that is easiest available to most people, and it's not illegal or necessarily looked down upon, even promoted in many ways (birthday cake). So that is why it's one of the bigger problems in society.
And the solution for addictions is not taking away the drug, because the desire is still there, and will eventually sip through in some other way. The way to deal with it is to look into the root cause of what is lacking in the life of the user causing it to try to fill up this hole in it's life with this drug. And then have a proper way of treating that, while also learning more about nutrition, because people have also just forgotten what healthy food is and how to make it.
So yeah in moderation everything is ok of course, but I do have the feeling that on average, we might be overdoing it a little bit with the sugar.