SUGARProcessed Sugar

WHY IS SUGAR A PROBLEM TO US, WHAT'S BAD ABOUT IT?

WHY SUGAR IS A PROBLEM

Sugar exists in many forms besides just the white

powdered beet sugar we can pick up at the grocery

store. Sugar in all of its forms (including corn syrup,

honey, and maple syrup) affects the body in a

powerful way and we are consuming more of it now

than ever before.

WHY SUGAR IS A PROBLEM

“Consumption of processed foods (which are laced with sugar) cost

the American public more than $54 billion in dental bills each year,

so the dental industry reaps huge profits from the programmed

addiction of the public to sugar products. …Today we have a nation

that is addicted to sugar. In 1915, the national average of sugar

consumption (per year) was around 15 to 20 pounds per person.

Today the average person consumes his/her weight, in sugar, plus

over 20 pounds of corn syrup. To add more horrors to these facts

there are some people that use no sweets and some who use much

less than the average figure, which means that there is a percentage

of the population that consume a great deal more refined sugar than

their body weight. The human body cannot tolerate this large

amount of refined carbohydrates. The vital organs in the body are

actually damaged by this gross intake of sugar.”

WHY IS SUGAR A PROBLEMThe argument that sugar is ok in moderation and that eliminating any “food group” is dangerous. Certainly, avoiding an actual macronutrient category completely (carbohydrate, protein or fat) would be problematic, but sugar in itself is not a food group.

WHY SUGAR IS A PROBLEMThough sugar in some form is naturally present in many foods, by itself, it contains:

•no nutrients

•no protein

•no healthy fats

•no enzymes

WHY SUGAR IS A PROBLEM

Just empty and quickly digested calories that actually pull minerals from the body during digestion. It creates a hormone cascade when consumed that starts a positive feedback loop in the body to encourage more consumption. In a time when food was scarce and needed to be contained in large amounts in the summer when available to survive the winter, this was a good thing. In today’s world of constant access to sugary foods, it is not so helpful.

WHY SUGAR IS A PROBLEM

“Dr. David Reuben, author of Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Nutrition says, “white refined sugar-is not a food. It is a pure chemical extracted from plant sources, purer in fact than cocaine, which it resembles in many ways. Its true name is sucrose and its chemical formula is C12H22O11. It has 12 carbon atoms, 22 hydrogen atoms, 11 oxygen atoms, and absolutely nothing else to offer.” …The chemical formula for cocaine is C17H21NO4. Sugar’s formula again is C12H22O11. For all practical purposes, the difference is that sugar is missing the “N”, or nitrogen atom.”

These facts were originally brought by http://wellnessmama.com/15/harmful-effects-of-sugars/

HOW DOES CANE SUGAR GET PROCESSED?

I KNOW WHITE SUGAR CUBES DON’T GROW ON TREES

HOW SUGAR CANE IS PROCESSED

HAVE A LOOK AT THIS VIDEO!!!!

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THE LAST OF THE FACTS IN THIS PROJECT

THE LAST OF THE FACTS IN THIS PROJECT

1. About 6/8 of the people would have sugar EVERY DAY.

2. About 1/8 of the people would have sugar every second or third day.

3. 3/34 people don’t like sugar.

4. 31/34 people like sugar because of its taste and sweetness, but they all know it is un-healthy.

5. Wheat O Bix and Ready Break and porridge would have the least amount of sugar.

6. About one third of the people in America will end up with diabetes.

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