> Pastries, ice cream, etc are high in fats, and thick, so they may break down and get absorbed by the body slower while soda is just sugar water so it may flood the body faster.
It's definitely not impossible this is the reason. Fat massively affects how fast sugar gets absorbed and this is something that seems to not have gotten much attention in terms of nutrition in general despite things like gi index (which just looks at individual foods in their own).
If the thing that makes sugar bad is spiking blood sugar too much, it could be that how/when people consume it isn't being considered enough because of the assumption that it's always bad and needs to be eliminated as much as possible in general and so there's no point in trying to identify situations where it's not as harmful.
But it could also just be some sort of issue with this study.
It's definitely not impossible this is the reason. Fat massively affects how fast sugar gets absorbed and this is something that seems to not have gotten much attention in terms of nutrition in general despite things like gi index (which just looks at individual foods in their own).
If the thing that makes sugar bad is spiking blood sugar too much, it could be that how/when people consume it isn't being considered enough because of the assumption that it's always bad and needs to be eliminated as much as possible in general and so there's no point in trying to identify situations where it's not as harmful.
But it could also just be some sort of issue with this study.