After all we’ve been through on the other sugar thread ! ! !
You state “Maybe the teaspoons could be colour-coded? Green indicating natural sugars, red indicating added??”
What the hell is “natural sugar”? This is simply a way that manufacturers can increase the amount of sugar in a product whilst getting around the issue of how much “sugar” is in the product. If sultanas are part of the product (say sultana and apple museli bar) then with the “natural” sultanas (full of sugar), the “natural” apple (which is reconstituted apple juice) and the “natural” honey you can end up with a product which is 60% sugar.
The worst thing is that this “sugar” is chock-a-block with FRUCTOSE which is the poison which causes hypertension, de novo lipogenesis, dyslipidemia, hepatic steatosis, inflamation, hepatic insulin resistance, obesity, CNS leptin resistance.
Can we please get away from this “added sugar” wording.
It is “added” fructose that is the problem. Eating raw fruit is not generally a problem (some are better than others - see the list on the David Gillespie web site). Even fruit juice and adding fruit juice is a no-no.
We, as humans, have never consumed large amounts of fruit (until now). With regard to honey, modern bee farming of European bees (such as is carried out today) didn’t start until the 18th century and until recently honey was too expensive for many people to buy. For example Australian Aboriginal people often had to extract honey from a hive by poking a stick into a hive, or climbing a tree; further Australian native bees provide very small quantities of honey.
Saying that you can eat huge quantities of fruit without seeing any ill effects is like saying drinking large amounts of alcohol doesn’t have any ill effects. Both will be doing terrible things to your organs and brain which will over time cause hypertension, de novo lipogenesis, dyslipidemia, hepatic steatosis, inflamation, hepatic insulin resistance, obesity, CNS leptin resistance.
Not all people who eat fructose display the all medical problems, some will have one or two, others most of them. And the medical problem won’t show up in 3 months, 3 years or even 30 years, but they will eventually show up and by then it is too late because the body is already damaged.
Just think of the tobacco issue. For years there was no “evidence” that smoking caused health problems but eventually the faux research and blocking of genuine research could not hold back the tide. It is now recognised that smoking kills. There are many dead and dying who believed the phony science on tobacco. The same is true of fructose; keep going the way we are and the same health catastrophe is being repeated.
David Gillespie, Australian lawyer and author, says that any processed food showing more than 3% sugars should not be purchased or consumed. He has responded to recent discussions about sugar tax; his ABC interview can be found at:-
http://www.abc.net.au/radio/brisbane/programs/mornings/david-gillespie/8265480
See also his web pages at:-
http://davidgillespie.org/product_list/
http://www.howmuchsugar.com/
Below is a screen shot from Dr Robert Lustig’s talks. His email address is available on the internet and anyone who wants scientific references to his work should contact him.
Dr Lustig is definitely not alarmist. You may think he is pessimistic, however he has seen things get very much worse since he has been scientifically studying the issue.
Sugar is toxic to the human body, Dr Lustig and his scientific colleagues have “causal medical inference” which substantiates this (see his video “Fat Chance: Fructose 2.0”).
