Pour poison on half the food you eat. Pour it on your cereal, your pancakes. Take it in your cookies and donuts, and soft drinks. Have it in your pretzels and dinner rolls.
Poison, I say, poison.
Actually, it is not me that says it, but Robert H. Lustig, if you've ever heard of him. He would have us to know that sugar does more harm than just adding calories, and more harm than just making us fat.
Sugar is literally poison. Class it with cigarettes and alcohol, because it is a killer, same as they. "Alcohol without the buzz," he calls the fructose in sugar.
"The only difference is, alcohol is metabolized by the brain," Lustig says, "so you get the alcohol effects. Fructose is not metabolized by the brain, so you don't get those effects. But everything else is the same."
He says, if you've got a beverage in the house with fructose sugar in it, get rid of it.
He suggests that when God made fructose, he provided an anecdote right with it. You see, fructose occurs naturally in fruits and many plants, and in each place it is found, the same plant also has fiber. Fiber is the anecdote. I did not fully understand what he meant by that, whether fiber is a cure, or, more likely, if it is that one cannot consume too much sugar because eating the plant is mostly eating the fiber.
Well, I left off listening to his video, Sugar: The Bitter Truth, without understanding a lot of what was said. I'm not sure whether I am to be allowed some sugar, just not too much. But, I left off the wiser, believing what he says about sugar being a poison.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
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