SECONDARY SUGAR IS ADDICTIVE AND IS REALLY HARMFUL FOR HEALTH
What is primary sugar?
Many of our favorite, wonderful and natural foods contain sugar. Vegetables, fruit, honey, dairy - you name it - just about all the things you are supposed to eat plentifully contain a significant, but low, percentage of lactose, which Laurent characterizes as primary sugar. It's primary because it's natural, a fundamental part of the kind of foods that our bodies really appreciate. This primary sugar is certainly beneficial. Including it in your daily diet can help your memory and even improve your mood; it gives you energy and can benefit your skin and blood.
Many of our favorite, wonderful and natural foods contain sugar. Vegetables, fruit, honey, dairy - you name it - just about all the things you are supposed to eat plentifully contain a significant, but low, percentage of lactose, which Laurent characterizes as primary sugar. It's primary because it's natural, a fundamental part of the kind of foods that our bodies really appreciate. This primary sugar is certainly beneficial. Including it in your daily diet can help your memory and even improve your mood; it gives you energy and can benefit your skin and blood.
What is secondary sugar?
Secondary
sugar is added to something non-natural. Thus, as a simple example, a
standard fizzy drink can contains around 7 teaspoons of sugar alone.
However this illustration does not give a full picture of the scale of
hidden secondary sugar, which is added not only to obviously sweet and
treaty products, but also to savory and purportedly healthy products. A
very careful analysis of your product's packaging will reveal an
alarming amount of sugar in such un-sweet items as bread, hamburgers and
mayonnaise.
The volume of secondary sugar is even more worrying in certain types of 'healthy' foods. For example a fat free salad dressing will contain more sugar than a regular bottle; a gluten free product contains 30-40% more secondary sugar. So we may be duped by the reassuring claims that food companies make, allowing us a free-pass to indulge in simple easy foods we enjoy, all the while thinking we are making a smart, healthy choice.
When we consider secondary sugar as perhaps the biggest health problem of our age, the level of deception appears very sinister indeed. So much so that it is very easily comparable to the conduct of tobacco and cigarette companies in previous decades.
How do we get addicted to secondary sugar - and what are the consequences?
Furthermore, many 'toddlers drinks' contain around 6 teaspoons of added sugar per bottle. Meaning, a child that has been weaned from one sugary drink can go straight to another, without his or her parents even realizing that the drinks contain an unnatural level of sugar. This process continues throughout childhood, causing a dangerous cycle.
The extra sugar in our system becomes glycogen, or fat - which is stored for later use. However, with a regular habit, the fat stays within us and is very difficult to remove. If this process continues, the risk of obesity, type 2 diabetes, and heart disease grows. This can happen quite easily, and some have spoken about a 'sugar addiction'. Scans can show that the dopamine in our brains that is lit up when we reward ourselves (for example with sugar) does not light up in an addict, impelling them to repeat the process to get their fix.
The volume of secondary sugar is even more worrying in certain types of 'healthy' foods. For example a fat free salad dressing will contain more sugar than a regular bottle; a gluten free product contains 30-40% more secondary sugar. So we may be duped by the reassuring claims that food companies make, allowing us a free-pass to indulge in simple easy foods we enjoy, all the while thinking we are making a smart, healthy choice.
When we consider secondary sugar as perhaps the biggest health problem of our age, the level of deception appears very sinister indeed. So much so that it is very easily comparable to the conduct of tobacco and cigarette companies in previous decades.
How do we get addicted to secondary sugar - and what are the consequences?
Around
half of mothers today choose, for one reason or another, not to breast
feed their infants, but to use widely available baby formula. Mothers'
milk contains sugar: primary sugar at a reasonable level of around 7%.
Yet standard made-up formula contains 16% secondary sugar, which is far
more than the body needs. Worryingly, so-called 'organic versions'
contain up to 37%, which is reckless and astonishing.
Furthermore, many 'toddlers drinks' contain around 6 teaspoons of added sugar per bottle. Meaning, a child that has been weaned from one sugary drink can go straight to another, without his or her parents even realizing that the drinks contain an unnatural level of sugar. This process continues throughout childhood, causing a dangerous cycle.
The extra sugar in our system becomes glycogen, or fat - which is stored for later use. However, with a regular habit, the fat stays within us and is very difficult to remove. If this process continues, the risk of obesity, type 2 diabetes, and heart disease grows. This can happen quite easily, and some have spoken about a 'sugar addiction'. Scans can show that the dopamine in our brains that is lit up when we reward ourselves (for example with sugar) does not light up in an addict, impelling them to repeat the process to get their fix.
Laurent
proposes we put extreme pressure on the authorities to make sugar
content as clear as possible in order to inform customers what they are
really buying. He is not satisfied with nutritional labels on the back
of most products, since they have had no effect. He instead prefers to
compare the situation to the warnings plastered on cigarette packaging.
He inspires us by showing that by applying pressure we too can make a difference to this ongoing and accelerating epidemic.
He inspires us by showing that by applying pressure we too can make a difference to this ongoing and accelerating epidemic.
this is only for your
information, kindly take the advice of your doctor for medicines,
exercises and so on.
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