So, it can be burned off easier if it is absorbed over a longer period of time?
The slower a food is absorbed into the blood stream, the slower the body needs to respond. If a high amount of carbohydrates (sugars) are absorbed very quickly then the body overcompensates with a massive insulin response. Chronically causing insulin spikes causes increased insulin resistance which leaves you very prone to many diseases including obesity, heart disease, etc.
Ok, so I was wrong about the sugar content of carrots. I am sorry. However, I did NOT ever say not to eat them, in fact I do believe I implyed they were tasty.
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I also did not say not to eat something with 1/2 fat, I did not claim that the fat was bad. I was using it as an example to demonstrate reading the chart. Maybe I should have used protein.
Really not trying to be a jerk, but if you read your original post your comment about carrots were alarmist and the implications were more regarding its alarming sugar content than its tastiness. How does the following statement look:
"Cake is very high in sugar. It is tasty though."
Maybe its me, it sounds like you are not recommending cake.
However, when you find things like this:
Caramelized Carrots
Carrots have a higher natural sugar content than all other vegetables with the exception of beets. Carrots are high in glucose, fructose and sucrose (depending on the breed of carrot) which promote caramelization. In the case of carrots the reaction actually contains both caramelization products and Maillard reaction products since vegetables also contain amino acids along with reducing sugars.
You can see where that might be misleading. I read that as high in sugar, not "higher" in sugar. My mistake.
I understand the mistake, but this is how myths start. Now there are 3 posts in this thread to avoid the propagation of a myth when all you needed to do was visit nutritiondata and see that carrots are 5% sugar by volume (and the differences between species vary, of course, but not where one carrot is 50% sugar or something like that...)
I erased my original post.
Please do not do this in the future.
