Sugar…. (Refined sugar)

[Matt2584]

Hi folks,

Apparently, 70% of refined sugar consumption is the cause of many diseases - Mentally, physically and spiritually.

This also means 70% of these disease can be prevented by avoiding refined sugar.

When I was little, I had a terrible junk food diet which consisted of many sugary processed foods, gallons of fizzy drinks and hardly any natural, REAL food.

I would have had a very, very acidic body and in 96 I was diagnosed with a brain tumour and had a 2nd in 98.

In all, I have had many operations on these tumours.

2010 was my last visit to the hospital and this was also the time of my life where I dumped a lot of the sugar intake as well..

From my own research, I would not be surprised if my very acidic diet was the result of my tumours.

I remember speaking to somebody once and I mentioned that I used to have this terrible junk food diet and I had health problems and there more or less told me that it was obvious that I would have health problems from eating all those sugary foods.

Well, I disagree with that. It wasn’t obvious at the time and I thought that comment was pretty heartless.

My terrible diet was during the late 80s - early 90s, people weren’t so informed on what they were eating.

You know how cigarette packets have a “smoking gives you cancer” label on them.

Well, maybe all or most of the processed foods laced with refined sugar and other junk should have a similar label on them.

I would like to see on a Mars bar wrapper a label saying “Eat too many of these and you could die” or something similar.

Why is healthy food expensive or why can it be expensive?

All the acidic, junk foods out there (like McDonald’s) are easily affordable while all the foods that help prevent disease are pricey.

Shouldn’t it be the other way around?

[PandQs]

Hi Matt, I agree with you that it wasn't always obvious, and to many people still isn't, that sugar overload is causing health and weight problems. Unfortunately I was taken in for many many years by the idea that fat was the enemy causing me to put on weight, and avoided it like the plague. The compensation in many diet low fat foods was extra sugar and it wreaked havoc on my body. Even now I look around and feel very sad that there are so many people who are struggling to combat the weight gain from modern processed foods. At one time people didn't understand the dangers from smoking and now we accept the idea of restricting access and making the dangers known by labelling. I agree we need something similar for sugar and especially food served in restaurants. Those tiny little red markers on packaged items aren't a big enough warning.

[Matt2584 in reply to PandQs]

Trouble is though, you won’t find warning labels or big enough warning labels on foods because the world we live in is highly corrupt and is all about making money while the little people suffer (my opinion).

[PandQs in reply to Matt2584]

It's hard to imagine now, that at one time theatre and cinema seats had little ashtrays on the back to cater for smoking during performances. I never thought a smoking ban would be accepted for all indoor venues. There is warning labelling on packaging now and adverts have disappeared from our tv screens. If it can be done for the tobacco industry it can be done for sugar, if there is a continual drive to change public opinion towards that goal!