Today's award for the most inappropriately named documentary goes to today's Horizon. Instead of actually looking at sugar, they included all carbs (complex starch, seeds, roughage, vegetable - pretty much everything counted the sugar) versus well fat. Only in the last 15 min today start to mention refined sugar in the forms of donuts and treats in general.
"As doctors would love to give you one pill to fix all this..." screamed the BBC twin doctors presenters. Unfortunately, their genetic situation seem to be the only reason they were chosen to present. They informed us, presumably in the interests of disclosure, that they specialised in infectious diseases and tropical medicine.
Not a great track record for a documentary about a primary-care epidemic, but hey a medical degree is a medical degree. At least they weren't nurse practitioners.
They came over as a pair of dullish dimwits well supported by appropriate expertise. One chap in a lab coat had particular TV charisma could have done a better job of presenting the whole thing.
Our twin male doctors got down to their boxer shorts twice and had a bit of forced fake repartee to try to spice things up. Unfortunately been witless, it didn't, mild amusement not being their specialty either.
I have to confess I thought I knew what the conclusion was going to be namely that fat is not as bad as we thought it was and sugar is the new(ish) evil.
But I was wrong. That wasn't what they concluded.
Their conclusion - that it is actually the "treats" - the combination of sugar and fat that makes you fat. Eating fat doesn't make you fat and eating sugar doesn't make you fat.
It seemed like exercise strips muscle from the twin on the high sugar diet as well as the twin on the high-fat diet. Wasting muscle is bad.
You must do some exercise, but if you don't have any easy sugar available you'll dissolve your own muscle.
The high sugar diet improved your insulin output ( but I'm guessing you would run out of insulin before the end of your need for it, and you'll develop a popular disease).
But even the high-fat, no sugar diet, increased insulin resistance, sugar levels increased and one of our twins became prediabetic.
It's a no-win situation... if you're looking for a easy answers.
Somebody at one point briefly seemed to mention the word calories.
Does anybody remember them?
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