Societal Control of Sugar Essential to Ease Public Health Burden, Experts Urge
Watch: SUGAR- THE BITTER TRUTH on the front page of this web site by Robert Lusting, MD.
America has gone from less that 6 pounds per year of sweetener consumption in 1905 to over 228 pounds per year in 2012, not including harmful/cancer/disease causing high intensity and polyol sweeteners (Splenda, Nutrasweet, Truvia, Purvia, Equal, xylitol, sorbitol, mannitol, maltitol, agave, etc.)
The average American is consuming 62% of their daily calories in refined and processed carbohydrates when the body is designed to only handle about 10% on a daily basis.
The food and beverage chain are flooded with high PROFIT and low cost harmful carbohydrate sweeteners like High Fructose Corn Syrup, causing massive increases in diabetes, cancers, heart disease, depression, dementia, obesity, etc.
~ Uncle Russ
ScienceDaily (Feb. 1, 2012) — Sugar should be controlled like alcohol and tobacco to protect public health, according to a team of UCSF researchers, who maintain in a new report that sugar is fueling a global obesity pandemic, contributing to 35 million deaths annually worldwide from non-communicable diseases like diabetes, heart disease and cancer.
Societal Control of Sugar Essential to Ease Public Health Burden, Experts Urge
