Category Archives for "Sugar"

Sugar is Killing Us

Processed sugar is killing people. I’m not exaggerating with that statement. Sugar is directly related to deaths from obesity, diabetes, and cancer. In this Fit Tip I have some interesting–and scary–facts and stats about sugar, and its dangerous effects. And, don’t think that foods and drinks labeled “sugar free” or “lite” are better. You might be shocked […]

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Sugar is Killing People

“Sugar is nothing but a chemical. They take the juice of the cane or beet and refine it to molasses and then they refine it to brown sugar and finally to strange white crystals.” Author of Sugar Blues. Here are the plain hard facts! In the 1800’s, the average person consumed about 18 pounds of sugar […]

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Sugar Tastes Great. And It’s Poison

Tastes sweet, smells sweet, and makes us think happy thoughts at the chance of eating it, but inside our bodies, sugar becomes a toxin. The buzz we get from eating sugar is actually our body burning excess energy to fight the poison out of our system, hence the sugar crash!  Refined table sugar, also called sucrose, […]

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