The Pros And Cons Of Sugar Consumption

Sugar is one of the easiest components to hide in the food industry considering the fact it is in a shocking 70 percent of all packaged foods. Sugar consumption has widely varied over the past few centuries, ranging from eating to drinking to mixing. While most people believe a little bit above twenty grams of sugar is recommended a day, most people do not know that could still even be way too much for us to consume. Most single serving candy bars contain all that sugar or even far beyond that. As is if it were not any more complex than food labels, people have been mislead even more every single day and are still not aware of the dangers that sugar has on their body.. The government's advantage over society leads to controlled food regulations that result in health

“For at least the last three decades, the dietary arch-villain has been saturated fat.” (Lesley) was their rebuttal. This could leave people in America shocked when the truth about sugar surfaces, how could something so bad be refuted for so long? Too many people, the only conclusion found was the sugar industry has been paying off the government and or industries for a long time until they eventually could not hide it much longer, the fact that sugar kills. Unfortunately, these same common people fall for these lies or believe them until evidence is surfaced to refute these claims and it could be too late. Yudkin not only had the courage to call out the industry but also the ones backing it up. “Sadly, interpretation of medical science is frequently influenced by the dark forces of industry, out to make a killing.”(Yudkin) If scandals that we know now surfaced after Yudkin’s time, there has to be a more knowledgeable party in the science industry. Maybe we will never know as the sugar industry continues to grow