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The evidence is rolling in to the point now it's impossible to ignore. Sugar should be ranked with tobacco and alcohol in that a little is ok but in the amounts humans consume it now sugar is a slow deadly killer.
Why is that?
Humans were not designed to consume large constant amounts of sugar and up until the last 100 yrs sugar just wasn't available to the masses in the quanitites we have today.
Excessive sugar isn't good, no our bodies are meant to eat too much of it, but a bit here and there I don't think is a problem.
The real catch 22 here is those "bits" add up FAST. Since so much of the sugar in our diet is hidden counting "bits" just won't cut it.
I'm diabetic and have to watch what I eat like a hawk. I can tell you that 99.9% of what we eat has hidden sugars in addition to the sugar listed on the label.
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When I first read there was corn syrup in my store bread, I didn't believe it. Then I looked at the ingredients. "High fructose corn syrup." I'm eating sugar bread.
I think the High Fructose Sugar paranoia is overblown. Cane sugar is 50% fructose, 50% sucrose, both sugars. Fructose is the one that naturally occurs in fruit. HFCS is 60% fructose, 40% sucrose. Because fructose is sweeter tasting, they can actually use a little less of HFCS than they would cane sugar.
People are just looking for a scapegoat, when the real issue is self evident... huge portions of foods and drinks containing sugar.
Remember when it was A Fact that eating sugar made kids hyperactive? And then somebody actually did a study, and then other studies bore out that study, and it turned out (though the original researchers said they were scared to tell the parents this) that sugar makes toddlers drowsy and it has no effect on other kids (assuming there's not diabetes or something like that going on, of course, but even then it wouldn't be behavioral).
They had no explanation for the idea that eating sugar makes kids hyperactive, beyond looking at the occasions when kids usually eat lots of sugar - Halloween, Christmas, birthday parties, Easter . . . you get the idea, occasions when they'd already be excited and wound up. MUCH easier than parenting, though, to blame the sugar! Thus the fear of telling the parents.
Too much of anything is bad for you. For example, this.
Too much of anything is bad for you. For example, this.
Yes, dihyrogen monoxide is a huge killer, all over the world. And yet even Coca-Cola is involved in pumping it out to innocent consumers in enormous quantities!!
Life is the biggest killer of all. Meh humans live longer healthier live now in greater quantities that at any time in humna history.
And yes I know about the 200 year life span of the Japanese tribe on its northern most island that only eats lichen and seaweed.
Good one! They eat a lot of rice, too.
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I'm eating sugar bread.
