If we MUST eat a entire bag of Oreos.

Which scenario is better?

  • Eat the entire bag in 30 minutes
  • Eat the bag slowly, and evenly throughout a day?

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    Ehhh, I’d say that, on average and for most purposes, spread out is better.

    Less of a hit to your system. No big blood sugar spikes, which reduces the worst aspects if swallowing an entire package to the minimum it gets.

    That being said, expect digestive issues to linger. You’ve got a lot of fats, the coloring, and the sugars playing havoc with your guts.

    Expect to need a lot of tooth brushing unless you just enjoy having plaque and acid build-up messing with your teeth.

    But I’d say that the risks of big spikes in blood sugar are higher than those risks. It could, in the right circumstances, kill you. And the way some of the more recent information regarding the role of sugar in atherosclerosis, and maybe other cardiovascular illness, is looking, every big spike is whittling time off of your heart more than a bunch of little ones will.

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      I was thinking the opposite. The first one s a huge sugar hit, and every following one.

      • If you spread it out, your body efficiently digests them to maximize the sugar spikes, to maximize the calories absorbed to turn into fat
      • if you do them all in one sitting, you only get one sugar spike and much of the fat and sugar won’t even be digested
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        Nah, when you’re dealing with carbs as simple as sugars, they’re broken down and absorbed very efficiently. Some of it even gets absorbed in the mouth before you swallow. So the spikes from stuff that is that sugar packed it can bump up blood sugar levels high enough to throw your whole system out of whack.

        Basically, it triggers a massive insulin dump into the blood stream, with all that entails.

        And, since the body can’t use that much at once, it’s more likely to get converted to fat than smaller bumps.

        Fats, compared to sugars, take longer to get broken down and absorbed. That process starts with saliva in the mouth, but doesn’t really get going until later. Iirc, you typically won’t be taking in any of the fats until it hits the small intestine.

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          21 hours ago

          That’s the real argument no one seems to make. However I’ll still do my best to not buy Oreos as the only way around this issue

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          And, since the body can’t use that much at once, it’s more likely to get converted to fat than smaller bumps.

          yeah 100%. The human body doesn’t store sugar. The only sugar we have available is the 5g in the blood stream at any one time, anything above that gets stored as fat… somewhere.

          A single Oreo has 8.3g of sugar, higher then the total blood sugar carrying capacity