One of the keys to really improve your nutrition is to decrease your intake of sugar, especially added sugar. This is the sugar that does not exist naturally in the food you eat, such as refined sugar, sugar found in soft drinks, and anything with high fructose corn syrup.
But a recent article from the authority site Healthy Holistic Living hasshed some new light on just how detrimental and damaging added sugar really is. There is also a bit of a history lesson within the article. Below is an excerpt of the article.
Added Sugar is The Single Worst Ingredient in The Diet. Period.
” “Did all of a sudden the entire world just become a bunch of gluttons and sloths? All at the same time? I mean, get real.” – Dr. Robert H. Lustig There are many things… The post Added Sugar is The Single Worst Ingredient in The Diet. Period. appeared first on Healthy Holistic Living. According to Dr. Stephan Guyenet, in the year 1822 we ate the equivalent of a 12 ounce can of soda every 5 days. Today, we’re eating the equivalent of a 12 ounce can of soda every 7 hours.On average, Americans are eating about 22 teaspoons of added sugar per day, or 355 calories. This amounts to 70 pounds (32 kg) per year (4).These days, almost every processed food has sugar in it. Just go to the supermarket and look at the labels, you may be surprised… even many so-called “health foods” are loaded with sugar. ” http://www.healthy-holistic-living.com/added-sugar-single-worst-ingredient-diet-period.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=added-sugar-single-worst-ingredient-diet-period
Basically, the year 1977 was the beginning of a movement to markedly increase the amount of added sugar Americans via the “fat free food” movement. Virtually all processed foods have formidable amounts of sugar in them, especially fast foods. Added HFCS (high fructose corn syrup) is found in most frozen TV dinners and even some “health foods”. The article also discussses how sugar in liquid form seem to be more harmful.
High consumption of sugar is linked to the onset of diabetes and heart disease, as the increased amounts of sugar in the blood stream cause an imbalance in the body’s ability to process the sugar in the system.
Below is an article in the Authority Nutrition website describing some of the damage that too much sugar can cause:
10 Disturbing Reasons Why Sugar is Bad For You
