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Health: Dangers of sugar

This info from fedupmovie.com

See: Dr. Robert Lustig Videos:
Sugar: the Bitter Truth
Fat Chance: Fructose 2.0
60 Minutes

1980:  Childhood Type 2 diabetes:  0 cases.
2010:  57,600+ cases

1977, Because of McGovern Report, food industry started taking fat out of foods, and replacing it with sugar.  Between 1977 and 2010, average consumption of sugar by Americans doubled.

Ignore calories in/calories out prescription.  It’s not about exercise.  It’s about too much processed sugar in.

AHA daily allowance of added sugar:  6-9 tsp.  (4 grams per tsp).  36 grams max. a day.

Food addiction is real, not a metaphor.  People’s responsibility doesn’t work in the face of addiction.  Don’t have addictive food in the house.

WHO TRS-916.  Sugar is the major, if not the cause of chronic metabolic disease and obesity.  No more than 10% of daily should come from sugar. USA extorted WHO to stop publication of report. 4 calories in one gram of sugar.  4×36 = 144 calories.  10% of 1,500 calories = 150 calories.

Simple carbs (e.g. white bread, white rice, processed cereal) act the same as sugar in the body.

One can be metabolically obese and normal weight, and in danger of heart disease, diabetes, etc.  Tofi = Thin on outside, fat inside.  DEXA scan = measures internal body fat.  Belly fat is the dangerous fat.  40% of normal weight have metabolic disease.

Insulin coverts sugar to fat storage.