Science has proven that white sugar is dangerous to your health. I heard this the other day on a TV news program and I wasn’t surprised. Anything that is processed by man before you buy has been altered to increase profits.
White sugar was been linked to Cancer. So why after centuries of humans using sugar to sweeten food is it now labeled as a cause of Cancer. All of this is linked to why we gain weight. We are not eating our grandmothers sugar, flour, coffee, or even milk and cheese.
If we back up to the 1950’s, food was actually more expensive. Not in terms of dollars but compared to our salaries. In the 50’s we were paying about 25% of the average monthly income for food. Today we pay less than 10% of the average monthly income. Why!! Some of the reasons are because we have a larger number of people earning less than the average.
Manufacturers decided decades ago that they needed to keep the cost of food as low as possible. While Europe never did that. They wanted the quality of food to stay the same, so the price of food in Europe is higher than in this country. Actually, I don’t know of any country that has the same food we do.
Most countries don’t import food. They grow their own. Spices may be the exception to that rule and sugar is conceded a spice.
If you travel to other countries you can tell the difference in the food. Of course, things are different today and the manufacturing of food has spread to other countries. But in other first world countries the quality of food is closely guarded.
For instance, in Mexico, manufacturers of soda like Coca Cola have to use real cane sugar in their soda. In this country Coca Cola uses a chemical substitute. Most food manufacturers don’t use real sugar in anything. Not in breakfast cereal, or anything else o
n the grocers shelves.
Even if a product says sugar on the food label, it’s not real sugar. Additives are put in all processed foods and if the read the food labels you can see it for yourself and people have been reading and they have been complaining.
This has caused such a disturbance in the food industry that manufacturers been scrambling to clean up the food labels. The consumer want the labels but they don’t like what they read. They don’t like chemicals in their food and consumers are switching to fresh food. Even frozen foods are taking a backseat to fresh foods.
The new immigrants in our country are helping to change the food industry. They want to buy the same fresh fruits and vegetables, fresh meat and seafood that they use to buy in their country. Most of them don’t want packaged food. And new immigrants eat more at home than Americans.
North America is the part of the World with the most Cancer cases and we can limit our chances of getting Cancer by limiting our consumption of white sugar, animal fat, stop smoking, lose body fat and be more active. It’s not that hard. We have learned to avoid caring for ourselves and now 2/3’s of the adult population is weight.
You are the only one that can keep you healthy. Chemicals in food is not something that kills you quickly. It might take a couple of decades, but as you age the chemicals you consume over a lifetime stay in your system and if you live long enough you’ll end up with Cancer or something even worse. The chemicals I’m talking about will be absorbed in your fat cells and just keep growing.
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