[thisisscience]

yea, but why? it looks cool and all, but at least sugar gives you nutrients (energy calories).

[KptMarchewa]

The problem with modern nutrition is that people consume too much calories, not too few.

[thisisscience]

I'm pretty sure you're referring to the poor health outcomes correlating with high caloric intake, which afaict, come from people's consumption of heating oils (seed oils): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetable_oil

There's bound to be mixups what talking about sugars and fats. But these fuel oils are really really bad for us. We've demonized sugars unnecessarily. Right?

[KptMarchewa]

No, exactly opposite. Fats are good, sugars are bad.

[Jarwain]

Good fats are good, but there are bad fats too!

[culopatin]

Get your nutrients from everything else, you don’t need sugar for nutrients, and that’s not why you put it in a chocolate cookie