The Dangers Of Too Much Sugar: What The Sugar Industry Doesnt Want You to Know
Anthony Gucciardi Natural Society
For years, the sugar industry has had to fight negative publicity – and for good reason. Sugar and all its sweet goodness has been blamed for childhood hyperactivity, cavities, diabetes, obesity, and cancer, among other things. But fought back the industry did, and they were largely successful, distracting consumers by blaming other culprits and spending heavily on positive marketing.
The Sugar Industry’s Lies
But the research continues to pile up. In an extensive Mother Jones piece, we learn just how much effort was put into the sugar industry’s campaign to keep the truth from us. Effort and money. The sugar people spent loads of cash on investigating the negative effects of sugar substitutes. And while we aren’t here to say things like aspartame are good for you, the sugar industry’s efforts were far from noble.
For instance, way back in 1942 a document was circulated among sugar cane and beet producers, giving them help in countering the anti-sugar campaign that (gasp!) was encouraging weight conscious women to forgo the sweet stuff. From 1975 to 1980, the Sugar Association spent over $650,000 funding 17 studies that would ultimately support the sugar industry. These studies suggested sugar may be good for depression and even weight management. And the list goes on.
Sugar is natural. But at the rate it is consumed by modern Americans, it is anything but healthful. The average American is said to consume about 70 grams of fructose each day. Children consume 7 trillion calories of sugar from beverages alone every year.
So, what’s the issue? Why should sugar consumption really matter?
It matters for several reasons, but primarily because sugar causes disease.
The Dangers of too Much Sugar
In the latest of many studies on sugar’s negative effects, we learn that increased sugar intake equals an increased risk of diabetes, even with things like lifestyle, obesity, aging, and more accounted for. Though it stops short of causation, according to the researchers, it gets awfully close.
For every increase in sugar availability (equal to a can of soda per day) there was a 1 percent rise in diabetes. While 1% might not seem significant, consider how many people drink multiple sodas each week or even each day.
“No other food types yielded significant individual associations with diabetes prevalence after controlling for obesity and other confounders,” said the study published in PLoS One. “Differences in sugar availability statistically explain variations in diabetes prevalence rates at a population level that are not explained by physical activity, overweight or obesity.”
And if this wasn’t significant enough, further research published in Molecular Cell and reviewed here on NaturalSociety described exactly how sugar consumption and cancer risks are connected. Basically, sugar consumption causes the release of insulin by way of a specific protein. It’s this protein that is known to be a factor in the development of many types of cancer.
Companies will spend millions (and more) to convince you their product is safe for consumption. And it’s only through a concentrated effort and unbiased science that we are able to see these food products may not be everything they are promised to be. While it’s common sense that sugar isn’t a good weight loss aid, information on how it actually harms you is slightly harder to come by.
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Give me sugar or stevia. Keep your poison.
Deadly poison.
Natural sugar is not a problem. It’s the artificial sugars, gmo corn syrups the food makers put into their foods that is the problem. Try finding sugar as an ingredient in american food. Hard to do. It’s all artificial poison.
This is the first rational post I have found on this site. Believe it, sugar is poison. Americans are dying from it, it is turning us and our kids into obese drones that only have enough strength to lift a spoon.
The food industry has loaded nearly every thing on the market shelf with Corn Syrup, look at any package label…you’ll find it everywhere. Here’s the deal, Sugar=Corn Syrup no difference, they are both forms of SUCROSE. one of them is easier and cheaper….that would be corn syrup.
Sucrose is the problem…it’s in everything and highly addictive. Sucrose is as addictive as Heroin….that’s why it is so hard to give it up. The only solution is to go back to eating the way our grandparents did. If it was not a food 100 years ago, then it ain’t food!
Natural sugar is not the issue the study is totally misleading. It man made sugars which are the issue.
if you look historically at the increase in diabetes and the introduction of processed (aka corn syrup) Sugars you will see a direct correlation.
Its not just sugar its the kind of sugar.
High fructose corn syrup is a common liquid sweetener made from corn that is used in many foods and beverages. It is a safe ingredient and has been approved for use by the FDA. The American Medical Association has studied high fructose corn syrup and concluded that it is not a unique contributor to obesity (http://www.ama-assn.org/resources/doc/csaph/csaph3a08-summary.pdf).
-Maureen Beach, American Beverage Association
Occasional treat of sugar (not diet or alcohol sugars) are ok.
The thing is they are not doing it occasionally but ALL THE TIME. That’s where the problem is.
People ate sugar for hundreds of years and nary a fat person until recently. Mainly due to stuffing of regular sugar as well as the well-documented dangerous sugars like aspartame, corn syrup and alcohol sugars.
Rule #1 Occasional treat of sugar only.
Rule #2 Avoid any of the modern day replacements of sugar.
Stevia is the only safe non-alternative sugar according to some pundits. It’s not for baking. Other natural sugars are Rapadura, Sucunat or at the least, minimally processed cane sugar.
Not beet sugar as it may be GMO.
It may be hard to swallow but once upon a time sugar was not the unhealthy villain it is viewed today but an “essential” nutrient. Through the first half of the 20th century sugar was deemed essential to health-good tasting and good for you. In fact it was sanctioned by Uncle Sam as part of the 7 essential food groups of WWII. No one fanned the sugar flame more than Corn Products Refining Co. producers of dextrose sugar whose ads encouraged “By all means. let em’ eat cake…and candy too! Dextrose was the wonder nutrient. For a look at a collection of vintage Dextrose ads whose messages seem as quaint as the images themselves http://envisioningtheamericandream.com/2013/03/11/stay-as-sweet-as-you-are/