Hello, Sugar!
Currently, the amount of "sugar" (concentrated sweets of all kinds) being
eaten in the U.S. is nearly 150 pounds per person per year.... Imagine a grown person
completely made of sugar. To give you an idea, this is about four cans of soda a day, without
eating any other food with sugar. How much are you eating?
Our intake has increased more than thirty pounds per person in the last twenty years,
due in large part to sugary sodas replacing milk as America’s most popular beverage.
Equal to 36 teaspoons daily or nearly 600 calories, sugar makes up at least a fourth of
the average day’s caloric intake. Even more alarming, many children are eating enough
sugar to equal half their daily calories.
Now consider this. A 1986 FDA report based on a review of medical journal articles
concluded that when sugar consistently accounts for 25-50 percent of calorie intake (the
among persons of all ages are eating), the result is one or more serious health problems.
Cardiovascular risk, diabetes, glucose intolerance, hypo- and hyperglycemia, behavioral
changes, gallstones, excess calcium in the urine (a symptom of pending osteoporosis), and
mineral deficiencies are implicated
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Keywords: Adrenaline, Advanced glycation
endproducts, AGE, Alpha lipoic acid, Blood sugar, Chromium, Cortisol, Diabetes, Diet,
Glucose, Glucose tolerance factor, Glutamic acid, Glycation, Heart disease, Immunity,
Insulin, Insulin resistance, Magnesium, Manganese, Protein, Stress, Sugar, Supplements,
Sweeteners, Vanadyl sulfate, Vitamin E, Vitamin C, Zinc
Topics: Systems Out of Sync: SOS, Adding Insulin to Injury, pH
Distress, Too Much Stress, Immune Suppression, Acid and Base Forming Foods, Protein
Damage, Eat Your Way Out of It, A Message In A Bottle
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