Sugar isn’t just empty, fattening calories – it’s making us sick

[LuckyTheDog]

As someone who eats more than his share of candy and feels the effects, I can say this rings true.

Children are manifesting increased rates of adult diseases like hypertension or high triglycerides. And they are getting diseases that used to be unheard of in children, like Type 2 diabetes and fatty liver disease. So why is this happening?

Everyone assumes this is the result of the obesity epidemic – too many calories in, too few out. Children and adults are getting fat, so they’re getting sick. And it is generally assumed that no one specific food causes it, because “a calorie is a calorie.”

I’ve been studying the role that sugar plays in contributing to chronic disease for years, and my research group at the University of California, San Francisco has just published research in the journal Obesity that challenges this assumption. If calories come from sugar, they just aren’t the same.

MORE HERE: http://yonside.com/sugar-isnt-just-empty-fattening-calories-its-making-us-sick/

[Autumn Colors]

1. K&R

I've been trying to cut out sugar and do feel better, even without weight loss; and when I happen to eat something "bad" (with sugar), I know it and feel it for the next day or two.

Also, not all sugars are exactly alike. If you're baking something ... better to use organic Grade A maple syrup or raw organic honey instead of sugar. Coconut nectar is also a low-glycemic alternative. All of this in occasional, tiny amounts, though, NOT on a daily basis.

[IcyPeas]

2. Organic sugar

I've been buying Organic Granulated sugar from trader joes. But I know I am kidding myself. It's still just organic poison.

[Person 2713]

3. Well true you are avoiding glyphosate ingestion by not eating GMO sugar which would

be an additional toxic burden on your body
but yes sugar be sugar whether organic cane or GMO beet

[Logical]

4. Link not working for me. Nt

[LuckyTheDog]

5. The site was down earlier today

The link seems to be working now.

[Logical]

6. Thanks!! Nt

[Shankapotomus]

7. Lalalalaicanthearyoulalalalala

Nom nom nom

[Logical]

8. Great story and so true. nt