The curious thing here...is that our American diet didn’t really involve that much sugar until you get to the 1920s, and by the 1960s...it literally explodes with sugar usage. And here in 2012....if you measured the amount of sugar you consume in an average month...it’s beyond comprehension.
Take an individual into a controlled environment and limit him over ten years to four-percent of what we normally consume in sugar today...and I think you’d find a very healthy individual. But I doubt if any of us are willing to give up donuts, Mountain Dew, sweet tea, or honey buns.
“But I doubt if any of us are willing to give up donuts, Mountain Dew, sweet tea, or honey buns.”
I gave it all up years ago. You need to include starchy foods and other foods that use corn syrup. Even then, bodies that have a strong resistance to insulin will still convert everything to fat storage. With bodies that use insulin properly, for energy production, sugar isn’t such a bad deal. It is low in calories and high in energy. A body that works properly will eventually get everything turned into sugar.
End of story.
Yes indeed! Honey Buns would be really ANGRY if I gave her up.