One of the most dangerous trends in foods is the addition of sugar during the production process. For years we were told that eating fat was what made us gain weight. So, about twenty years ago we started to take fat out of foods. Now there are thousands of No Fat and Low Fat food available at the grocery store.
The problem is fat adds flavor. When the food manufacturers took the fat out they took the flavor along with it. Their answer was to add sugar into the mix in order to sweeten it up and make the foods taste better. Almost overnight, most processed foods had sugar added in the form of high fructose corn syrup.
Along with this increase in sugar concentrations came several health problems including obesity, diabetes, and attention deficit in children. Is this a coincidence? It appears not.
As you may have noticed, no carb foods diets have sprung up over the last five years or so to help millions of people get their weight under control. The main tenant of these diets is the removal of sugars and simple carbohydrates from the foods that are eaten every day. This results in a dramatic weight loss in most people but it also shows some other side benefits.
When people stop eating sugar they report much better control of blood glucose which can alleviate diabetes. They also report more clear thinking and less moodiness. Also, cravings for high calorie foods diminish drastically or even fall away completely.
Not many scientific studies have been done on the effects of all this sugar added into our diets because studies take money and right now the money is coming form the sugar lobby. They don’t want any proof about how bad sugar really is for us.
But, if you are overweight, sluggish, moody, and irritable it may be worth your while to spend a week without sugar and see how much better you feel. I think you will be surprised.