Sugar... a not so love story...

Sugar.


Sweet, fancy, pure white, powdery sugar. It comes in so many forms, there isn’t enough room to type out all the names… but here are a few…

Glucose, Dextrose, Corn Syrup, Fructose, Sucrose… basically any “ose” out there…

It comes in powdered form, syrup, rock, colors, liquid, and it even comes on a stick for ease of eating.

It gets added to almost EVERYTHING on the grocery store shelves… yogurt, bread, pizza dough, drinks, alcohol, lunch meats, chicken, tuna, pasta, canned processed foods, every kid food imaginable, sauces, and of course in cereal, by the truckloads…

Why? BECAUSE IT TASTES GOOD…and if something tastes good… it will be purchased… over.. and over… and over again.

Why? BECAUSE IT IS ADDICTING! Really? Yep… it is. Corn syrup is banned in Europe… FOR A REASON… it makes people crave bad foods… all the foods that corn syrup is used in.

You will hear arguments between groups of people, talking heads mostly, that “sugar is sugar, no matter where it comes from”. Well…. not so fast there bucko.

Do the math. Hold in one hand… a candy bar, and hold in another one, and nice, juicy, ripe, ice cold peach. Both have sugar. Both are sweet. One has fiber and roughage as a delivery system to our bodies, and one had corn syrup, modified food starches (sugar), food coloring, guar gum, and a host of other ‘things’ in it. Duh… which one is better for you?

Sugar is not sugar. That’s just too simplistic. I believe in natural sugars. Those that come cloaked in a peel, under a wrapper of edible lusciousness. Yes, I know… cane sugar is “natural” and for some things, it is useful… but not to the abundance the American Diet is using it. It is LITERALLY in EVERYTHING! You can’t swing a dead cat in a grocery store and not hit something that has waaaaay too much sugar in it! Did you know that Domino's Pizza adds sugar and LARD to their dough?  Yeah.. just saw it on a show called Food Tech...

Cancer loves sugar. Sugar breaks down cell walls and allows cancer cells to invade. Sugar in fruits carry away bad cells with the fiber of the fruit, and the natural sugars are used much more rapidly by our bodies. Our bodies know EXACTLY what to do with fruit sugar. We are made to break it down. Our kidney’s don’t get overworked using fruit sugars.


Our kidneys kick into overdrive to break down and use other sugars, and all the other horrid ingredients it comes with.

Eating sugar lowers our immune systems. Try going completely “bad” sugar free for a month, and see how much MORE energy you will have. See how much less tired you become, how your allergies may lessen in severity, how your face will clear up, how much less you get ill. It is amazing. You can do anything for a month. You will start to notice that if you were to eat something with white sugar in it after a month, it will taste entirely TOO sweet, and you won’t crave it. During the month, eat all the fruit you want… morning, noon and night. Mangoes, pineapple, watermelon, frozen grapes, peaches, blueberries, apples, pears etc…. Do this FOR yourself… don’t think of it as something you are doing TO yourself.

Those canned sodas(all sodas)… are the worst. Something like 16 teaspoons of sugar per can… YIKES! Diet soda? just as bad… I promise… all that aspartame and chemicals in it… they are timebombs clothed in aluminum.

I want you to live a really long time.. unless your initials are “A”… oh nevermind… that’s not nice…

Cut processed sugar out of your life…and add years to your life… in the process…

White sugar… bad… fruit sugar… good.