American adults eat 22 teaspoons of sugar a day; teens eat 34 teaspoons and it’s time to cut way back, the American Heart Association says.
Rachel K. Johnson, lead author of the statement published online Monday in the American Heart Association journal Circulation, said it was time to give specific advice on how much added sugar Americans should be getting, not just advising moderation.
Click here for the informative article found on the MSNBC website.
… sugar diabetes was what they called it when we were young, but they changed the name to hid the fact that sugar is its cause … and the obvious way to prevent diabetes is to stop eating sugar … it’s just that simple !
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The strange thing is that the referenced article never even mentions diabetes! It just talks about the heart.
not so strange … most medical professionals are so compartmentalized in their specialties that they don’t really see the whole picture … they are programmed to be like that
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And now this -
There is a looming sugar shortage! Click here for an updated article on this subject found on the LA Times website.
… if you read that report carefully, you’ll see that it is a shortage of corn syrup sweetner, not real sugar … corn syrun is an artificial sweetner that’s always een cheaper for producers, but less healthy than real fruit sugars for eaters