-------------------- "One may dislike carrots, spinach, beetroot, or the skin on hot milk. But not wine. It is like hating the air that one breathes, since each is equally indispensable."
Marcel Ayme`
Posts: 6942 | Location: The Left Coast | Registered: Dec 01, 2001
Sugar by a long shot IMO. All of my wife's family in Korea live past 80 and the basic difference in their diet is they don't eat sweets at all. Plenty of fat and alcohol in their diet though...
Posts: 2205 | Location: OC, CA (Currently in London) | Registered: Aug 01, 2007
I would be curious as to what their overall caloric intake was, and would bank on it being lower than the average in the US.
Personally I know that either in excess is problematic, but I do consume both. My main sugar intake is probably in coffee every morning, and is relatively moderate. I just assume that if I keep running and swimming and lifting, and whatever else I can do, that my body will deal with it. I hope like hell that I am right!
I'm with the sugar crowd for sure - but it'd be interesting to do the same poll with salt as one of the three choices.
I cook almost every day and I never worry about how much kosher salt I season with, but man, I'm always frickin AMAZED at the sodium content of processed foods.
"Like a midget at a urinal, I was going to have to stay on my toes..." Lt Frank Drebin
Posts: 673 | Location: St Louis, MO | Registered: Feb 27, 2005
I chose fat, though, really, it is an unfair question, even going with animal fat. Fish fat is good for you. Pork fat is bad for you.
What is worst, from my understanding, are the bad fats. Tropical nut oils, certain land-dwelling animal fats, etc.
My view on this may be skewed however, because as a matter of day-to-day consumption, my diet does not include any refined sugar or high fructose corn syrup whatsoever (nor tropical nut oils) but it does include mammal fat, as well as butter.
"What contemptible scoundrel stole the cork from my lunch?" -- W.C. Fields
Originally posted by winetarelli: I chose fat, though, really, it is an unfair question, even going with animal fat. Fish fat is good for you. Pork fat is bad for you.
What is worst, from my understanding, are the bad fats. Tropical nut oils, certain land-dwelling animal fats, etc.
My view on this may be skewed however, because as a matter of day-to-day consumption, my diet does not include any refined sugar or high fructose corn syrup whatsoever (nor tropical nut oils) but it does include mammal fat, as well as butter.
The question is fair, and your admitted action seems to be quite telling.
They're both part of the four food groups. 
