• Hacksaw@lemmy.ca
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    6 days ago

    While there are essential fats and proteins, there are no essential sugars. Your body can work perfectly fine indefinitely without any sugars of any kind.

    • SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      6 days ago

      They’re probably thinking about glucose, which is the sugar in “blood sugar”. You’ll die without it, but it’s created endogenously in the liver and kidneys.