In our daily life routine, we mostly use sugar as ingredient of some foods or as a food. Sugar is sweet and likes by most of age group. But after researches and studies, scientists found it “Most dangerous and addictive food” on the planet.
Do you know? 43 laboratories of cocaine-addicted, rates were given the choice of sugar water or cocaine over a 15 day time period: 93%, or 40 out of 43, chose sugar or cocaine.
In a study of 2004, the “World Health Organization (WHO)” released a “TRS 916” named document acknowledging that less than 10% of your daily calories should/must come from added sugar. They say "less than" because many scientists and researchers believe 0% added sugar is necessary in our daily life. Our body produces enough glucose from carbohydrates and starch received elsewhere.
The W.H.O. suggestion is as follows:
This below picture text is a label for brown sugar, but do you notice anything shocking? There is no percent Daily Value listed for sugar. Should not there be?
You may not have imagined when the W.H.O. published this study then sugar industry went crazy so much. Tommy Thompson, then Secretary of Human and Health Services, flew to Geneva, to tell the W.H.O. that the US Government would withhold $406,000,000 in funding if the report were published. Extortion at the government level.
Now, the US Institute of Medicine issues that up to 25% of your daily calories can come from added sugar. This is 2.5x more than the what W.H.O. recommendation.
For the record:
1 gm (gram) of sugar will burn about 4 calories at a time. As an average, our daily diet is based on a consumption of 2000 calories; it would fact that you should be consuming 0-50gm of added sugar a day according to the W.H.O. study.
The health dangers from excess sugar are fairly well known. Obesity, chronic pain, heart disease, and the list go on; but the addictiveness of sugar is under-addressed. May be it's because of us that had sugar in the last 3 days and we do not want to believe we’re addicted to sugar. May be we enjoy the rush; I, personally, think that drugs of all kinds used strategically can benefit your life. Making it illegal is probably not the healthy way to deal with it, but treating it as an addictive substance will get us further towards health. We know that the tobacco giants of the 50s selling their products to children, sugar food commercials and cartoons aimed at children are on their way out. But regulation exists for a reason.
Below is a clip from an informative documentary called "Fed Up," which indicates the warning sign for us and sugar industry in today's tradition.
[ Source: nydailynews, huffingtonpost, cip.cornell.edu,
www.who.int , livestrong, www.iom.edu ]
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