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14 votes
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The history of fruitcake
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The medical reason a doctor might put sugar on your anus
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Large study links sugary carbonated drinks to increased risk of depression
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Why so many baseball players are Dominican
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Sucralose breaks up DNA
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Fruity Pebbles and Lucky Charms threaten to block “healthy” food labelling guidelines in court
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Cake in the office should be viewed like passive smoking, says UK food regulator
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Chinese takeout fried rice secrets revealed
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How the sugar industry makes political friends and influences elections
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“They just came and started breaking houses”: After our investigation prompted action in Congress, a major Dominican sugar exporter razed workers’ homes as US diplomats drew near
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Subway bread does not meet tax exempt legal definition of bread, Irish court rules
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The race to redesign sugar
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Norwegian sugar tax sends sweet-lovers over border to Sweden
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Norwegians are eating less sugar than at any time in the last forty-four years – annual consumption per person has fallen by more than 1kg a year since 2000
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It is truly shocking how much sugar we eat
Have you ever really looked at what you eat? If you have, you may notice one common ingredient present in everything from vegan sauces to certain ketogenic foods. Taking those specific diets into...
Have you ever really looked at what you eat? If you have, you may notice one common ingredient present in everything from vegan sauces to certain ketogenic foods. Taking those specific diets into consideration, the widely accepted figure for keto is <100 grams, and similar in the vegan sphere as well(Often times you'll see a quoted 30 grams, but the kicker always comes in the comments where someone says fruit based sugars don't count towards this. They do, very much so, count towards it). This is far, far, far too much sugar for any one human to be taking in a day. The FDA has no recommended figure for their DV scale of food labels, but other groups certainly do. The World Health Organisation recommends no more than 5% of daily calories be from sugar of all types. This is equivalent to 25 grams for a 2000 calorie diet. The American Heart Association recommends the same figures.
Now, you may be asking yourself, why would the AHA bother themselves with sugar? Certainly that's more for a diabetes association to study than a heart disease one? Well, it's because sugar is heavily linked to heart disease. From the source:
participants who took in 25% or more of their daily calories as sugar were more than twice as likely to die from heart disease as those whose diets included less than 10% added sugar
So, not only are you at risk for heart disease, but there are new studies that suggest alzheimer's is nothing more than a 3rd form of diabetes.
I'm not hoping for much in posting this, except that someone somewhere looks at their diet and resists the stranglehold sugar has on our present society.
35 votes