The Truth about Sugar

is... Sugar is POISON!*

Matthew Miller Celebrity VPT Covent Garden/Bank calbodybuilder@gmail.com

I am not being sensationalist in the least, either. Please let me share some of this new research that will pull the rug right out from under your feet!

"So how can I say that, sugar is natural right?"

What do we call it when you take in a compound that’s foreign to your body and only the liver can metabolize it, and in the process, it generates various problems? What do we call that? We call that a poison. It is only a difference between acute and chronic poisons. Alcohol is an acute poisoon, so it is a controlled substance. Sugar is a chronic poison, which means that the toxic effects are seen over a longer time period. It is therefore not a controlled substance. But note that alcohol is in fact made from sugar.

"But what about fruit I eat lots of healthy fruit!? "

High-fructose corn syrup and sucrose are exactly the same. They’re both equally bad. They’re both dangerous. They’re both poison. This is because they both contain relatively equal amounts of fructose. The other part of HFCS and sucrose is glucose. Every cell in the body utilizes glucose, but only the liver can metabolize fructose.

"Prove it! "

Adding only one soda a day is equal to 15 pounds per year of added body fat! This refers to statistics that since 1982 fat consumption has decreased while there has been a 41% increase in soft drink and a 35% increase in fruit drink consumption. Eating or drinking 3500 calories more than you use leads to gaining one-pound of fat. So, 150 calories (a can of soda) times 365 days per year and then divided by 3500 comes to 15.64 pounds of fat.

"And what is worse... Fructose does not suppress the hunger hormone.”

This is a monumental problem because drinks containing any form of sugar will not raise insulin because there’s no receptor cell for fructose on insulin’s beta cell—which means that your brain will not see that you ate something. In other words, that large soda won’t even be counted by the brain as food.

"So, in summary when you consume fructose, you’re not consuming the carbohydrate; you’re consuming fat. Everybody talks about a high-fat diet. Well, a high-sugar diet is a high-fat diet. That’s the point! That’s exactly the point!”

"Yikes!!! OK What do I do now?!"

Step 1

“Get rid of every sugared liquid in the house, bar none—only water and milk. There is no such thing as a good sugared beverage. Period!”

Step 2

“Eat your carbohydrate with fiber. Why? Because fiber is good!”

What Fiber Does:

Slows down the rate that carbohydrates are absorbed in the intenstines Speeds up the satiety signal to your brain because food is processed more quickly Leads to “short-chain fatty acids” that suppress insulin

Step 3

“Wait 20 minutes for second portions to get that satiety signal.”

Step 4

“Buy your screen time minute-for-minute with physical activity. So, if you [exercise] for half an hour, you can watch TV for half an hour. You want to watch TV for an hour, [exercise] for an hour.”

*Excerpts taken from and for further reading please read the lecture The Truth About Sugar given in 2011 by Dr. Robert Lustig, professor of Clinical Pediatrics and the Director of Obesity at the University of California in San Francisco. It changed my level of education on sugar forever.