I found this and wanted to know if there is any truth to it:
"The other day I was reading through some articles I get and came across one about sugar and white flour. Now, we all know that sugar is man’s worst enemy in the fight for large freakish muscles and destroying body fat, but do we all know why it is such a terrible foe? We usually relate sugar to high a glycemic index, which causes an enormous spike in insulin, which then cause the body to store nutrients as energy, which is essentially storing fat (when you raise it through sugar intake.
The GI indexes food and how it relates to insulin levels and storage is a tricky subject. (More on this to follow). What scared the shit out of me in this article I was reading was the new light it shed on the dangers of sugar. Here is what it said, and I laid awake that night praying the sugar demon wouldn’t sneak into my food, it said that sugar is an–get ready for this–“anti nutrient.” That’s right, it is a dead food that provides a negative value for nutrition in the body. What does this mean? When we consume sugar our body has to find some way to process it, to do that it has to have certain nutrients. Where does it get these nutrients? Our muscles…“did he really say that!!!” Yeah I did: Sugar takes nutrients from out of our muscles to process itself.
Sugar consumption leads to a decrease in the body’s reserves of chromium, magnesium and B vitamins. Any hardcore bodybuilder knows how important these nutrients are to growth and recovery. These are the main and key nutrients sugar needs to metabolize itself, it takes them from the body’s reserves and leaves your muscles deficient of them. Sugar also crowds other nutrients/calories in your body, leaving you crave more calories from sugar to fill your needs.
SAVE THE WORLD!
Save yourself and your physique and eliminate sugar from your diet. Stay away from breads and pastas (made with white flour) and juices and sweets. Some sugars are OK, for instance sugar from raw honey and blackstrap molasses because they contain certain enzymes that make them healthy. However, these sugars should still be used scarcely in a diet. Make the commitment and kill all the sugar in your diet, I guarantee it will make a big difference in your physique goals.
Just thought I would share some info with fellow freak seekers.
When speaking about eliminating refined sugars and flours from a diet I believe that you may be preaching to the converted, but it is always good to have some ‘new’ info floating around.
I’m no expert on the subject, but aren’t all carbohydrates eventually broken down into sugars anyway? So wouldn’t you have to completely cut out carbs from your diet in order to COMPLETELY taking sugar into your body? I don’t see how there could be any truth to that article, but I’m interested to hear what everyone else things.
Yes, whole grains come with their own vitamins (especially B’s) and minerals, and therefore the body’s reserves aren’t run down as with starch isolates.
Ever notice how “enriched white flour” has the B vitamins (thiamine, niacin, etc.) added back into it? They remove the vitamins from the bread along with the enzymes, for storage purposes, then add some of the vitamins back in. But only after being processed by a chemical plant in New Jersey, so that they are no longer whole vitamins!
Yea, I’ve seen this article on a very popular bodybuilding site. Probably the “most popular”, if you type it into a search engine.
I won’t include it on the post due to garbage like that I wasted 3 years in my life on a lot of information found there. Too bad I didn’t find T-Nation sooner. Shit.