Facts about Sugar

Children like the sugar very much and they grow up on sugar – who doesn’t keep in mind the joys of a big chocolate cake or an ice cream? And yet as adults we continue consuming sugar as a huge part of our diets. But as we know it’s not very healthy, because it is extremely processed, and we also know that it causes weight gain, we’ve never stopped to consider about how bad sugar really is for us. Recently there has been a lot of talk about sugar and experts have likened it to toxic for our bodies. Here’s why.

Robert Lusting who is an expert on pediatric hormone disorders said By ‘Sugar’ Lustig means not only the

granulated white stuff we put in to our coffee and desserts but also high-fructose corn syrup, which has already become without Lustig’s help, what he calls “a good number demonized additive known to man.” If Lustig is accurate, it would mean that sugar is also the probable dietary cause of several other chronic ailments extensively considered to be diseases of Western lifestyles heart disease, hypertension and many general cancers among them.

While the majority nutritionists will tell you that you should stay away from fat, excess salt, excess sugar, and your diet should include of fresh fruits and vegetables, the claim that an element as beloved as sugar could be harming us and our children sounds absurd. 

This brings us to another question – Is sugar as dreadful as Lustig says it is?

It is very well true that sugar and high-fructose corn syrup, because of the unique way in which we metabolize fructose and at the levels we now eat it, cause fat to accumulate in our livers followed by insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome. This in twist triggers the processes that lead to heart illness, diabetes and fatness. They could certainly be toxic, but they take years to do their damage. It doesn’t occur overnight. Until long-term studies are done, we won’t know for sure.

Although research is questionable on this, it perhaps that what Robert Lustig says about Sugar and high fructose corn syrup in his lecture could be true. Sugar maybe even worse than what Lustig makes it out to be. 

Doesn't matter what the truth about sugar, we know that it does us more hurt than good and if we make a conscious try in cutting down its intake in its highly processed form and instead eat it in more natural forms like in fruits, we will be leading far improved lifestyles.