I get this question a lot, "why did you name your book Sugarettes?"
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I get this question a lot, "why did you name your book Sugarettes?"
You might be surprised to learn how much sugar you eat in a day. Take a look at this video to see how much you are likely to eat in a day. You might not think you eat this much, but remember that in some ways, we were conservative about our estimates: we used 12 ounce sodas instead of restaurant sizes and we didn’t include many hidden sugars such as you might find in salad dressings, peanut butter, or thousands of other foods. Here is the table we used to make the sugar estimates: Cereal 4 teaspoons Toast 3...
Sugar and humans are not supposed to mix. Yes, you are drawn to sugar. Yes, it calls your name out from the pantry. Yes, you are possessed by the thoughts of sugar plums dancing in your head (especially when you are on a diet). But the truth is, we were never meant to put such a purified food into our bodies, at least not in the large amounts we find ourselves doing daily.
I wrote Sugarettes because, despite the growing amount of evidence that sugar is harmful and responsible for many of the diseases you are likely to encounter in a lifetime, there is not one medical, governmental, or professional association that thinks there is anything wrong with the amount of sugar we are all eating.
Let’s not stop by looking only at the symptoms of addiction (see previous blog), but look at what the scientific community has to say about sugar addiction. When asked about if sugar is an addiction, most people in the medical community would shrug this notion off as if you were crazy. But, you aren’t crazy if you think you are addicted to sugar; many people know sugar is an addiction for them. There are scientific studies that show that sugar is an addiction. Let’s see what the researchers have discovered through their research in animals: When rats have free...
