Meryl Horn

And that's why like you see marathon runners having that like sugar goo stuff.

It can be converted really quickly into energy unlike other things like fat.

Yeah.

So, yeah, there is there is some good here.

But for the sugar haters, they're not really coming for your like fruit.

They're more worried about the sugar that gets added to stuff like soda, cakes, your ice cream.

Well, they're wrong.

That's the big concern, right?

So that's what we're really going to dive into.

Let's look at whether it does make us gain weight first, since there's this idea that when we eat sugar, it really like packs on the pounds compared to eating other stuff.

And so one of the first studies that shed light on this was done by Professor Jim Mann at the University of Otago in New Zealand.

He did it like 50 years ago, actually, back in the 70s.

And so, yeah, it really stuck with him.

like a Tootsie Roll that you left in your pocket too long because something totally unexpected ended up happening.

So here's how it went down.

Okay.

The goal of the study was to see what happens when people replace sugar for other types of calories, like starch, the stuff that's in bread.

So they could see like, is sugar particularly unhealthy for us?

So here's what they told the volunteers.

So ditch the dessert and have some pasta instead?