47 sats \ 5 replies \ @erict875 OP 7 Mar \ parent \ on: US Sugar Consumption, 1822—2005 charts
If I'm not mistaken, sugar and alcohol are metabolically equivalent (and maybe chemically too)
If you mean in terms of calories per gram, I believe alcohol is actual slightly greater than sugar.
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You're probably right, but I meant to say that the body metabolises sugar and alcohol in the same manner. I vaguely remember having heard this somewhere before... if true, they might have similar effects in terms of health etc.
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I don't know whether that's right or not, for sure, but people on ketogenic diets substitute sugar alcohols for sugar. That makes me think they're metabolized differently.
Are you thinking of protein, by any chance? Because, I do recall that excess protein ends up being metabolized like sugar.
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OK, I've found my source. In this quite old interview with philosopher Stefan Molyneux, Pr. Lustig argued that fructose acts very similarly to ethanol at the metabolic and cellular level, contributing to issues like fatty liver, triglyceride production, and even addictive properties...
It's a great and relatively short episode in which they both discuss Pr. Lustig's article, "The Fructose Epidemic"
Also, it's important to note that we're talking about fructose, which is present in the food etc, and not glucose. Both are metabolised differently by the body.
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Interesting. I wonder if it's because ethanol is derived from fructose initially, so the body basically converts it back first.
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