Sugar: The Super Food
What they don't want you to know!
Come on then all the dieticians and nutritionists! Let's see you roll your sleeves up, crack your knuckles and wade on in here.
What could I possibly mean?
“Sugar is bad. We know it is bad, I'm unsubbing so fast right now. Oh, hold on, I wasn't subbed in the first place.”
Exactly! Now who looks like the loser?!
I therefore don't give a dang about unsubbers, due to my deep unpopularity. And long may it last!
I give about as many dangs about unsubbers as there is sugar in one of those zero sugar energy drinks.
As an aside, why do people who drink energy drinks all the time always look so tired? Ever noticed?
Something isn't right there.
Anyway.
I once stopped eating sugar and kept it up for about 2.5 years. And, by the way, if you ever declare that you are doing this be prepared for everyone to suddenly become this kind of biochemical expert and tell you that the bread you are eating, and the rice… dadadada…. all convert to sugar. So, you know, nice one! Thanks all!
Sunshine dances through everything and I guess sugars happen.
So I then needed to change it; I wasn't eating “sugar centric” food. A takeaway pizza has 50 grams of sugar, but I would eat that because it wasn't about sugar.
Yeah?
But I wouldn't have any sweets, ice cream, biscuits, and all that. Not even fruit juice, or honey.
Should anyone really eat honey? Apparently it also contains medicine for the bees. We take their honey-medicine, swap it out for sugar water and wonder why those guys are dying out!
You wouldn't be looking too good either if someone swapped you food and medicine out for skittles.
“Hold on a second Mind Pilot. I thought you said sugar was a super food though, what the devil is going on here?”
You got me.
And you also unwittingly pushed me to finally make my point.
Thank you.
Sugar is a super food. What do I mean?
Well, I used to say sugar was a poison. Now I respect it as a substance.
But “Sugar is a Substance” isn't that attention-grabbing as a title. So, I guess I mislead you there. I'm really really sorry.
And I guess that's the key message, we seem to have been brainwashed to not have respect for sugar. We see it as food, a crappy food, not a substance.
As a substance, it can be massively beneficial:
20 minutes left in the World Cup Final and you need to get a goal? Take sugar!
Lining up for the 100m sprint at the Olympics? Take sugar!
Gotten lost on a hike, the sun's going down and you're going to freeze to death if you don't make it to your next waypoint. Take sugar!
Long drive but you're almost home but your knackered? Take sugar!
It's a substance. And should be treated as such.
Parallel it with other substances, let's take opiates (not literally now you nutters).
I mean let's take opiates as an example of another substance:
Appendix about to burst? Have opiates!
Arm been severed off by a tiger when you reached in to the cage at the zoo? Have opiates!
Gotten yourself mangled by some machine or other? Have opiates!
But one thing most sensible people understand about this substance is:
When we are just sitting on the couch watching tv… Don't have opiates!
But we aren't taught to see it that way about sugar!
Thank you for reading, despite the click-baity title and preachy sentiment 🙂
Now go grab yourself some wine gums, decant the sugar out of them, and enjoy.
Or just drink wine. I dunno.
Please join me again for my next click-baity post; “Let's Drink Alcohol and Get Smashed on Opiates Cos That's Freakin Awesome”, where I will discuss the exciting pleasures of staying at home in somber, sober quietude.
Unfortunately, this segues directly into the conversation on how the western world handles substances. Particularly the absolute saturation of them in America, where 2/3 of Americans are on prescription drugs, and over-the-counter substances are not only rampantly used but socially propagated. Even if we reclassify sugar, nothing will change because we've built this house on the substance cornerstone.
Haha, Mind Pilot… your post had me smiling the whole way through! I love how you take us on the full rollercoaster—sugar as villain, sugar as hero, sugar as substance. There’s a real kindness in your honesty and in noticing the little details, like the tiredness of energy drink drinkers and the bees’ honey medicine.
It’s refreshing to see someone admit how cultural narratives shape our ideas about food—and then gently, humorously, flip the script. I think the takeaway (pun intended!) is that respect and awareness are everything: sugar isn’t inherently evil, it’s context, purpose, and moderation that make the difference.
Thanks for making us think, laugh, and reconsider our everyday substances all at once.