I think it lies partly to blame with the corn subsidy and lobby with the extreme overuse of HFC and America gets fatter and fatter because of it. Myself included, I need to lose 15-20 pounds. I’m going to try and limit my diet to less than 25 grams of sugar per day and see how fast or slow those pounds fall off.
So, for over half my adult life, the scientific consensus about salt was that it is bad in any form. Low salt, no salt, salt is poison and so forth.
A couple of weeks ago, the CDC comes out and says “oops!” salt ISN’T bad and “don’t worry bout it!”
Red meat, white meat, eggs, milk, even fricking water, burnt meat, raw meat, lean/fat meat are/were/now not bad for you.
If you live long enough, you’ll see these so-called scientists end up retracting and amending prior invocations. The worst offenders are the CDC.
It is all political or it is self-serving designed to garner funding for their impartial “studies”....
People just eat too much of it in the wrong form. Sugar in an apple is sugar but not the problem a sweet drink is. But saying that won’t sell books and get a person on the talk shows.
Thanks for referencing that article SgtHooper. I think I had seen it earlier.
I wish that reporters would make a distinction between natural sugars and processed sugar, processed sugar like high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) being the real concern. I now read the labels on confections and avoid anything that list HFCS, Oreo Cookies being one of them. :^(
I’ve noticed that just about everything that has frosting on it probably has HFCS.
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Sugar is toxic,
And so are you.
Sugar can indeed be toxic; just like water is toxic when you take in too much of it. Oxygen is also toxic if the percentage of oxygen in the mix is too high.
Because cancer cells live on glucose and have 15 times the glucose receptors as healthy cells, researchers are experimenting with the idea of severely limiting sugar intake of patients, then preceding their chemo treatments with insulin. The thinking is that the greedy, glucose-starved cancer cells will take in the insulin and the chemo drugs will be readily absorbed as well. If that proves effective, it would provide motivation for millions to drastically cut sugar intake.
I follow a general rule of thumb when buying food and cooking.
“Ingredients shouldn’t have ingredients.”
Following this will spend most of your budget on fresh produce, meats and eggs. Save for a few items such as Olive Oil, spices and tea, there is really nothing in the un-refrigerated center aisles of stores humans should be eating.
the old adage of “all things in moderation accepted” applies to sugar, salt, “red meat”, starches, fats, etc.; etc.; our problems with weight are not do directly to any of those things; our problems with weight (we they do not have real genertic or phsyiological systemic causes) come from our having become gluttons for many foods and how easy the processed food industry has made it for us to to that.
Like the rich man who has a harder time getting into heaven, not because of his wealth or how he got it but because it has provided temptations, temptations not open to the poor or avarge person, though the power of that wealth, to make choices that can be morally problematic.
We have become “wealthy” in what food, what kinds of food and how much food is available to us - wealthy beyond the imagination of people hundreds and thousands of years ago, and we have allowed some degree of that wealth, and our relative ease in obtaining it, to become gluttons, without even realizing it.
Control caloric intake and eat all things, including salt, sugar, fats etc in moderation, not gluttonous excess, and there are few real health concerns from either salt or sugar or fat.
When I read ——— “Scientists now say ———”, I just groan.
One of the latest is about coffee and caffeine. Changed minds again. Sigh.
But — coffee is now good for you! (I never gave it up.)