Sugar

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The-Health-Sciences-Academy_65-Names-Of-Sugar.pdf

American adults consume an average of 77 grams of sugar per day, more than 3 times the recommended amount for women. This adds up to around 60 pounds of added sugar annually – that’s six, 10-pound bowling balls, folks! The numbers are even worse for children. Note, most likely its closer to a 100 lbs of sugar you eat a year and we wonder why we are obese and sick and diabetes is a big deal....

 

[ATeam]

I went off added sugar years ago, and I am glad to keep this addictive poison out of my body and brain. Avoiding added sugar helps keep my body lean and my brain healthy.

"In the brain, excess sugar impairs both our cognitive skills and our self-control. For many people, having a little sugar stimulates a craving for more. Sugar has drug-like effects in the reward center of the brain. Scientists have proposed that sweet foods—along with salty and fatty foods—can produce addiction-like effects in the human brain, driving the loss of self-control, overeating, and subsequent weight gain" (Source)