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?

  • Diddlydee@feddit.uk
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    10 minutes ago

    I’d say it’s best to never eat then, as they taste awful. They’re gritty fake cookies with the density of hard bread, synthetic sweetness, and the undertone of chemicals that most US sweets and chocolate have.

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    3 hours ago

    This is my eternal struggle, with any type of biscuit.

    I try to not eat the whole pack in one day, so eat some then close the pack. But inevitability I go back later and finish the rest!

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    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.

    • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world
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      for most purposes, spread out is better. Less of a hit to your system

      The digestive system is not built for boredom.

      It works best with lots of changes and irregularities. Single events of such stress are no problem at all (only many repeated events of the same stress are bad). The same goes for a day or two of staying hungry.

    • Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works
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      1 hour ago

      One of the first things I did when I first moved out from my parents is eat a whole bag of Oreos for breakfast because I could.

      It turns your poop black.

  • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Smash them up and dump the crumbs into a glass. Now it’s a drink and no longer subject to the tyrannical nutritional guidelines of the medical establishment, leaving you free to consume it as you please.

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    8 hours ago

    A dentist once answered this question. Better to eat it at once than soak your teeth in sugar for the entire day. Even better if you brush your teeth after, of course.

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    5 hours ago

    Just commenting to say I love this question and the genuine attempts at answers. I’m going to ask a dietitian next chance I get

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    8 hours ago

    Its better not to eat entire bag of Oreo in one day but if you must then its better to spread it over the day to avoid creating large sugar spike in your body.

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      7 hours ago

      I don’t think this is true unless you’re diabetic.

      For non-diabetics insulin will store all the glucose just fine. Even if you have an elevated level for several hours I don’t think that’s particularly problematic to your health. It’s problematic to diabetics because their levels are elevated perpetually.

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    8 hours ago

    Oh, we must.

    If I had to choose between those options, I’d eat them slowly throughout the day.

    But in reality, it’s two sittings: one row in the afternoon, and the rest at the unhealthiest of times, around 9pm.

  • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    Better to eat it at once. Your system can work away the high blood sugar level and then go back to normal.

    If you create high blood sugar again and again, it is stressful for your pancreas all day long. Do that often and you will get overweight, and then diabetes.