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>For a lifter trying to gain weight, a milkshake might be perfectly fine.

Y’all should look into insulin resistance. Huge loads of sugar being bad for you is fairly settled science, with foods that have a High Glycemic Index(GI) being linked to the development of Insulin Resistance. This is only the most tested link between high GI foods and higher all cause mortality[1]. The linked study is on a population of high Cardiovascular risk, however considering the website is for dieting that might make it more relevant. There’s a good reason the WHO guideline for sugar is a maximum of 10% of your caloric intake and a recommendation if 5%.[2]

I want to eat 1800 kcal in 2 vegetarian meals and a sample suggestion is 3 eggs and veggies(which is great) for the first meal, followed by 2 apples and almond butter and 2 bananas with yogurt for the second(labeled lunch). That’s terrible, and going to set my diet up for failure. That’s like 18% of your caloric intake as sugar, and in your last meal no less. You are going to burn through all that sugar and then feel hungry/hangry as hell when the insulin load in your body doesn’t match your blood sugar.

Seriously, the way your website treats sugar is completely negligent considering it’s proposition is that it’s an alternative to counting macros. I’d love to be able to suggest your website but my impression today is awful.

[1]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4176720/

[2]https://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2015/sugar-gui...