Jenny Robinson wrote:

Hi all,

I have really enjoyed David's books and have quite a few questions which I'm looking for answers for in these forums.

But one major one I have is many of my friends eat large amounts of sugar, don't exercise much and are very, very slim (men and women).  How can you account for that??

Jenny

I'm one of those Jenny. I'm 43 now and have been 65kg since I was 17, never gained or lost more than one kilo either way. I can eat whatever I wish, sugar laced and/or fatty, in any amounts and nothing seems to change. I even went on a weight gain diet at one stage while I was going to the gym ages ago - little effect. I have loved and eaten sugar WAY too much over the years and David's research has opened my eyes and put me on the right track - just to take the pressure off my organs and hopefully extend my future years. I think it is a genetic thing, a fast metabolism and the way your liver can process everything we eat. I do consider myself lucky, but far more fortunate that I read David's book, hopefully in time. Noel

Jenny Robinson wrote:

Thanks for sharing that Noel.  It was just the first question a few friends asked me when I mentioned the book and I had no immediate answer.  Of course, sugar does far more damage than just weight gain - but the title of the book is ' SWEET POISON, why sugar makes us fat ' which kind of indicates that the book is mainly about weight loss.

Cheers,

Jenny

Jenny ... here's a little publishing secret (ssshhh - don't tell anyone) ... talk of weight loss wasn't in my original manuscript title or subtitle - but Penguing felt it might sell better if that aspect was highlighted! 

People do lose lots of weight doing this and while that was my original motivation, the more I read about the harm fructose was doing the less concerned I was about the weight (and desperately hoping I hadn't done too much damage up til then in my life :-).  

We all react differently to our environment.  A room full of people with exactly the same strain of flu will all display different symptoms and even different degrees of the same symptoms.  There are definitely people who will not have the symptom of weight gain (in the population of sugar consumers), but that does not mean they are getting off scott-free ...

Cheers

David.