Our addiction to refined sugar is killing us! What is America doing?

 

 

Heart Disease, Cancer, Diabetes, Obesity, Impaired Immune System, Hypoglycemia, Osteoporosis, Arthritis, Acne, and much, much, more are the negative impacts of refined sugar. This is all acceptable by the FDA. These diseases are all preventable yet America does little or nothing to regulate warn us about the health risks of refined sugar.

 

Why is there so much Heart Disease in America? Refined Sugar.
Why is there so much Cancer in America? Refined Sugar.
Why is there so many Diabetics in America? Refined Sugar.
Why is there so much Obesity in America? Refined Sugar.

We can credit the increase in most disease to the fact that refined sugar either directly or indirectly causes them or reduces our immune system to the point where after years and years of abusing the magnificent bodies that God gave us we just break down.

 

Put refined sugar in the gas tank of your car and see what happens. It immediately breaks down. It will not run. It requires major surgery and maybe it will run again. We are made much better than cars. As refined sugar is not meant for your car it is not meant for our bodies. Yet refined sugar is the number one additive in all of our foods. Refined sugar accounts for ten times more than all ther other 2600 additives excluding salt which is a distant second. Every year the typical American consumes between 120 and 150 pounds of refined sugar. That translates to over one-third of a pound a day, 600-plus calories of teeth-rotting, health-destroying sweetness.

 

Many doctors, nutritionists, and researchers consider refined sugar a major nemesis of American health. In the last 20 years, we have increased refined sugar consumption in the U.S. 26 pounds to 135 lbs. of refined sugar per person per year! Prior to the turn of this century (1887-1890), the average consumption was only 5 lbs. per person per year! Cardiovascular disease, cancer, and diabetes was virtually unknown in the early 1900′s.

 

On top of all of this refined sugar is addictive. Have you ever craved something sweet? How about a soda or candy bar. Even that cup of coffee or tea with the sugar we add to them. This addiction has us stuck on putting more and more garbage into our bodies.

America has known this for decades. So the FDA requires foods to be labeled so the consumer knows what they are buying. Too Bad it is not the WARNING LABEL like cigarettes. Refined sugar is doing much more harm. The fact is the labels are not for the average citizen as the lay person does not understand the scientific terms listed on labels.

 

To make it simple, refined sugar is any of these “oses”; sucrose, fructose, glucose, dextrose, maltose, and lactose. They are not all created equal. Sucrose is by far the most widely used and as such it causes the most problems. Not just because refined sugar is bad for you but the amount we use overwhelms our system. So Step One to healthy eating is eliminate sucrose from your diet as much as possible.

So what is sucrose? For the everyday person sucrose is table sugar. Table sugar is also in many of the foods we eat. Read the labels on everything you eat. Many experts say count calories which you can do. But when you eliminate sucrose you have eliminated the main cause of calories, disease and obesity.

 

Second on the list is fructose. Fructose is 60% sweeter than sucrose so many times it is now substituted for sucrose and is the new lower calorie or diet addition. Becuase fructose requires 60%less to make your food as sweet, normally, there are less problems with fructose vs. sucrose. Yet and still it is the same effect if you consume too much.

 

Finally, glucose (dextrose), maltose and lactose are all forms of refined sugar that need to be reduced in your diet. The key to changing these habits are both education and will power. Hopefully, when we understand the ramifications of our actions we would change.

 

Too Much Refined Sugar Kills.

Is that Soda or that extra piece of cake worth your life?

 

 

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