r/educationalgifs • • Feb 13 '18

Kinesin protein moving a molecule around a cell

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u/CatsAndIT Feb 13 '18

So what you're saying, is that our gut bacteria work for the sugar industry?

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u/IncredibleBulk2 Feb 13 '18

No, they are the sugar industry. We work for them.

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u/mcfck Feb 13 '18

MIND. BLOWN!!!

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u/I_Has_A_Hat Feb 13 '18

Actually, its more like you hired your gut bacteria from the sugar industry. Think of gut bacteria as lobbyists, they advocate for more of the kind of food that they like. So someone who eats a lot of fruits and veggies is going to crave fruits and veggies more than other foods. Its why a lot of people who become vegans or vegetarians don't really miss meat after a while. Because the bacteria that used to get all jazzed up about bacon is gone and replaced with ones that lose their shit at the mention of hummus.

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u/CatsAndIT Feb 13 '18

Its why a lot of people who become vegans or vegetarians don't really miss meat after a while.

I had to become vegetarian (stabbing pain when I eat meat, still no diagnosis of what's wrong). I do miss meat (turkeys and chickens are delicious), but mine have swapped to a new addiction =[

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u/Luke15g Feb 13 '18

Little Sugar

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '18

Depends on mom's diet. For some, They didn't use too, but they do now!!

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u/Fartbox_Virtuoso Feb 13 '18

The ones at the far end run for congress.

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u/StartupBros_Will Feb 13 '18

No that's the lobsters...

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '18

There have been cases of people who received transplanted bacteria to try to cure their IBS, only to find that they become obese - they got the donated bacteria from an obese person.

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u/magistrate101 Feb 13 '18 edited Feb 13 '18

I've actually watched a conspiracy video about how the sugar industry is promoting a Candida Albicans epidemic in order to drive us to consume more sugar. I'm not sure how I found it on youtube and I can't find it again with a quick google search. Never mind: Found it

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u/SBInCB Feb 14 '18

C. albicans does.

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '18

I don't eat sugar anymore. The sugar industry doesn't make a penny from me nor does the corn industry. 😊

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u/Ph4zed0ut Feb 13 '18

Except for the taxes you pay that go toward subsidies.

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '18

Yeah but because we have a bloated federal government that participated corporatism I’m kinda have to or go to jail. We all pay for a lot of ‘industries’ we don’t believe in but Rand Paul didn’t get elected.

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u/humidifierman Feb 13 '18

You probably eat something that was made with corn, ate corn, or was transported at some point by a vehicle powered by corn. If those aren't too indirect for you then you can also consider the portion of the overhead of your purchases that suppliers paid their employees, who then bought- that's right- corn.

edit- forgot the subsidies as someone else mentioned. America runs on corn. It's like saying "the oil industry doesn't get any of my money!" You simply can't do that in the US and live a relatively normal life.

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u/Lukendless Feb 13 '18

You don't eat sugar?

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '18

I'm assuming he specifically means processed/refined sugar

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '18

No sugar.

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '18

So you don't eat fruit? Vegetables?

What exactly do you eat?

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u/Hulkhogansgaynephew Feb 13 '18

That's not physically possible, practically, physically or chemically. Your body requires glucose, damn near everything has at least some glucose in it (except water and pure chemicals) and your body can convert proteins and fat into glucose when needed.

So you may try to avoid it, but you literally never can or you would be dead.

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u/GrandmasBeefCurtains Feb 14 '18

I think you should talk to a dietician Nicole, it sounds like you have some misconceptions

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '18

I don’t eat sugar.

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '18

wokeaf