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?

  • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.ca
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    3 minutes ago

    I’ve solved that problem by buying two bags. One to eat all at once. And one to spread out over the rest of the day.

  • PapaStevesy@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    More enjoyment if you spread it out over the whole day, plus you won’t barf. You might shit liquid, but y’know, lesser evil I’d say.

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    12 hours ago

    If you are intermittent fasting, then eat in one 30 minute window. If not, no fucking idea.

  • billwashere@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    Scrape off all the cream and eat a bowlful of that, then snack on the burnt cookies the rest of the day.

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    13 hours ago

    I love that the question doesn’t specify what “better” means, and we’re all interpreting it in our own ways. Healthier? More enjoyable?

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      7 hours ago

      It’s better for mother nature if we all try to eat a whole bag in 30 seconds.

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    20 hours ago

    Eating sugary stuff that sticks in your teeth continuously throughout the day is the worst possible you can do for the teeth.

    Binge eating sweets is pretty bad for blood sugar.

    So to balance it out eat a third after every meal for max health and enjoyment.

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      12 hours ago

      Can confirm, I felt like that once and it made me quit Oreos for a long while. I still don’t quite enjoy them as much and do limit how many I eat. So I guess that’s good?

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    23 hours ago

    As a Canadian, unfortunately the answer is now to not eat them at all because they are an American product. This breaks my heart because I am the type of person that would eat an entire bag throughout the day :(

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    1 day 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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      1 day ago

      Better for your teeth, sure. Nutritionally, I’m pretty sure it’s better to spread it out.

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        23 hours ago

        Nutritionally, it’s terrible either way.

        I think your body would have a better time with it spread out over the course of the entire day. However you’re still absorbing an insane amount of sugar in a single day.

        There’s a chance all at once would result in more of it being pooped out and thus be better … but it’s so close to just eating sugar I expect you’d absorb it and then your body would go into overdrive producing insulin.

        Fine every now and then, but regularly it would be insanely bad no matter which way you do it.

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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.

    • Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works
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      1 day 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.

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        23 hours ago

        Yup :)

        I’ve had to clean up oreo poop lol.

        A lot of older patients tend to get a “sweet tooth”, and they’ll go nuts on cookies and cakes.

        Oreo poops aren’t the worst poops, but they look bad and are super sticky.

        • jet@hackertalks.comOP
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          22 hours ago

          Oreo poops aren’t the worst poops, but they look bad and are super sticky.

          What are the worst poops? Curry night?

          • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
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            11 hours ago

            Well, understand this is subjective.

            But, diabetic poop is probably the poop that is worst to clean up, depending on how well controlled their disease is. When it isn’t, the smell is like rotten fruit mixed with sewage. It’s also usually both runny and sticky when that happens, so it’s a bitch to get off of skin, and it gets into every nook and cranny.

            You definitely run into infections that are going to have people spraying poo everywhere, and most of the pathogens that do it make the smell rough too. However, it tends to be so watery that it cleans up easy. C diff, for example, you might need a face shield, but it wipes up easy.

    • AA5B@lemmy.world
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      20 hours ago

      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
      • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
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        12 hours ago

        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.

    • 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.

      • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
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        23 hours ago

        Yeah, but it’s also not meant to process a giant package of processed fats, levels of sugar we haven’t had time to adapt to, or the colorant used that is known to irritate the bowel.

        Which is why folks that go on a cookie spree like that end up constipated or loose and crampy. Which, yeah there’s some folks that would be able to take a giant hit of junk like that without noticing it, but I’ve had to clean up the mess left by Oreos when patients would go crazy on them for one reason or another (often dementia, sadly).

        No, it isn’t going to kill you, or send you to the hospital purely by the digestive side of things, but it can fuck up your day lol.

        Also, you’re misrepresenting not only what I said, but what the digestive tract is “built” for. It doesn’t actually benefit from irregularity of diet. It can handle it, but eating a fairly stable, non irritating diet keeps both the gut flora and the associated hormonal products produced in the intestines at a reliable operation. The more you disturb the system, the less stable the system. When it comes to gut flora and serotonin production in the gut, high sugar intake disrupts in a way that can have lingering effects; anything from a day to a week.

        Don’t mistake the difference between a varied healthy diet and shoving irritants down the pipes. They aren’t the same thing.