The Unfortunate Truth That Sugar Could Ruin your Life
My little nephew got diagnosed with Diabetes a couple weeks ago, so the whole fam started to looking deeper into sugar and it’s effects. This is something I’ve been doing for the last year. I’ll narrow it down to this: sugar is shit. It really REALLY is. My brother Sal texted me this video from 60 minutes the other day. Very interesting…
When you have time here is a video from Dr. Lustigs speech “Sugar: The Bitter Truth”…
Here are 50 different names for the sugar you should avoid (via dietriffic.com):
- Barley malt
- Beet sugar
- Brown sugar
- Buttered syrup
- Cane juice crystals
- Cane sugar
- Caramel
- Corn syrup
- Corn syrup solids
- Confectioner’s sugar
- Carob syrup
- Castor sugar
- Date sugar
- Demerara sugar
- Dextran
- Dextrose
- Diastatic malt
- Diatase
- Ethyl maltol
- Fructose
- Fruit juice
- Fruit juice concentrate
- Galactose
- Glucose
- Glucose solids
- Golden sugar
- Golden syrup
- Grape sugar
- High-fructose corn syrup
- Honey
- Icing sugar
- Invert sugar
- Lactose
- Maltodextrin
- Maltose
- Malt syrup
- Maple syrup
- Molasses
- Muscovado sugar
- Panocha
- Raw sugar
- Refiner’s syrup
- Rice syrup
- Sorbitol
- Sorghum syrup
- Sucrose
- Sugar
- Treacle
- Turbinado sugar
- Yellow sugar