I often get asked the question of why I wrote Sugarettes (the book I have coming out in a few weeks). The answer to that question is simple. 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.
The reasons why no one is sounding the alarm are complex and they start with our view of our food.
Meal Time
When you sit down to a meal, you assume (as we all do) that the food that is in front of us is the same food that humans have always eaten. This is simply not true. When you look over your meal and think back at the food that your parents and grandparent chose, they ate pretty much the same foods as you see on your plate today. But the problem is that our memories are short and you are looking back over the last, maybe, 100 years or so, you don’t really know what your ancestors at even 200 years ago.
To find out the foods that humans should be eating, you need to go back even further. The fact is that, over the last 7,000 years, humans have slowly changed the foods that they eat in a dramatic way. We have gone from eating mostly fresh foods to eating almost 100 percent processed foods.
We have gone from eating almost no grains and, certainly no sugars, to making these foods a dominant part of our diet. Take a look at your plate next time you are eating and notice how many of the food that you eat are carbohydrates, and then notice how many of those foods are simple carbohydrates or sugars.
Why I wrote Sugarettes
I wrote Sugarettes because no one is telling you that eating that many grains and sugars is harmful. In fact, you may notice that the advice you are getting from the medical community and government is just the opposite: grains and carbohydrates should make up a bulk of the food that you are eating.
Does their dietary advice work? Look around you. Do we look all that healthy?
We are not healthy. We are overweight and sick. We have changed from a society where only 5 or 10 percent of us were overweight to now approaching 50 percent or higher. With added weight comes an increase in the number of people with metabolic syndrome, diabetes, heart disease, certain cancers and other diseases. In fact, there are real chances that life expectancy may be slipping backwards for the first time in 100 years. The next generation may not live as long as the generation before it. Why? Because we are eating so many processed foods, sugars, and simple carbohydrates.
I wrote Sugarettes because there is a health-related Titanic racing towards an iceberg at full speed and yet the captain of the boat, oblivious to the danger, is calmly sipping tea on the back deck. This needs to change.
It is time you hopped in your own personal lifeboat and got off that ship. The only way to do that is to change the way that you are eating. It can be a struggle to change what you are eating, but the payoff is great. You can expect to have more energy, feel better, sleep better and avoid many of the painful diseases that come with following traditional medical advice about the foods you should be eating.
