The Sugar Industry

[saevel25]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/13/well/eat/how-the-sugar-industry-shifted-blame-to-fat.html

"The sugar industry paid scientists in the 1960s to play down the link between sugar and heart disease and promote saturated fat as the culprit instead, newly released historical documents show."

 

[Patch]

While visting my doctor(s), I have read  some of their magazines to kill time. In some of those journals it has been written that smoking tobacco, sugars, starches, salts and carbohydrates are five things most responsible for sending sick folks to doctors. Lack of exercise, when consuming those ingredients, in excess, has big part in their practices too. 

[nevets88]

Food industry puts forth all sorts of propaganda to get us to eat more of something, breakfast for example, steadily increases portion sizes over the years. Marketing is a fine science and heavily researched in getting people to buy more junk at the supermarket.

If America eats healthy, real food and proper portions, not your gut busting portions nowadays, the food industry would shrink faster than America's waistline.

Food industry is evil.

[Abu3baid]

2 minutes ago, nevets88 said:

Food industry puts forth all sorts of propaganda to get us to eat more of something, breakfast for example, steadily increases portion sizes over the years. Marketing is a fine science and heavily researched in getting people to buy more junk at the supermarket.

If America eats healthy, real food and proper portions, not your gut busting portions nowadays, food industry would shrink faster than America's waistline.

Food industry is evil.

Aren't all industries trying to get us to buy junk that we don't need?  Heck, the golf mfgs are working day and night to get us to buy drivers that we don't need.

Families make choices every day on what to put on the table each day, And the evil food industry doesn't deserve all the blame.  They like everyone else just want to make money..  people continue to make the wrong choices, I just hope they aren't drinking Pepsi because they saw Cindy Crawford do it.  :)

[nevets88]

12 minutes ago, Abu3baid said:

Aren't all industries trying to get us to buy junk that we don't need?  Heck, the golf mfgs are working day and night to get us to buy drivers that we don't need.

Families make choices every day on what to put on the table each day, And the evil food industry doesn't deserve all the blame.  They like everyone else just want to make money..  people continue to make the wrong choices, I just hope they aren't drinking Pepsi because they saw Cindy Crawford do it.  :)

When we buy a driver, it doesn't slowly kill us, ramp up healthcare costs, reduce the quality of our lives as well as those around us.

[jamo]

1 hour ago, nevets88 said:

When we buy a driver, it doesn't slowly kill us, ramp up healthcare costs, reduce the quality of our lives as well as those around us.

Unless you bought one of those tin can Nike Sumos that busted a good many eardrums. 

[nevets88]

Here's a 5 minute overview you can watch/listen if you don't have time to read the NYT piece.

 

[Hardspoon]

3 hours ago, nevets88 said:

When we buy a driver, it doesn't slowly kill us, ramp up healthcare costs, reduce the quality of our lives as well as those around us.

Yep, that's the difference. What's crazy (to me) is that we expect the companies to act differently because of this. They don't, and they never will.

[mcanadiens]

15 hours ago, nevets88 said:

When we buy a driver, it doesn't slowly kill us, ramp up healthcare costs, reduce the quality of our lives as well as those around us.

Obviously you never met my current 1-wood.

 

[mailman]

On 13 September 2016 at 10:44 PM, nevets88 said:

When we buy a driver, it doesn't slowly kill us, ramp up healthcare costs, reduce the quality of our lives as well as those around us.

Don't know about you BUT my driver does all of that to me!! It should be listed as a health risk!

Regards

Mailman

[boogielicious]

On 9/13/2016 at 5:18 PM, nevets88 said:

Food industry puts forth all sorts of propaganda to get us to eat more of something, breakfast for example, steadily increases portion sizes over the years. Marketing is a fine science and heavily researched in getting people to buy more junk at the supermarket.

If America eats healthy, real food and proper portions, not your gut busting portions nowadays, the food industry would shrink faster than America's waistline.

Food industry is evil.

And the Falafel Lobby? 

[Abu3baid]

1 minute ago, boogielicious said:

And the Falafel Lobby? 

No you didn't.... 

[jkelley9]

Deleted because I don't want to contribute lol.

Edited September 16, 2016 by jkelley9

[georgeadey92]

@jkelley9 you actually hardly need any sugar/carbohydrate to survive. Thousands of years ago when we were cavemen sugar wasnt readily available and we relied on a high fat, medium protein and low carbs/sugar diet.  Look up info about the ketogenic diet. You can keto-adapt so your body's primary energy source is fat rather than sugars. 

Processed carbs and sugars have a massive link to a lot of the illnesses mentioned above. Not to mention food sensitivities, allergies etc 

 

 

[jkelley9]

1 minute ago, georgeadey92 said:

@jkelley9 you actually hardly need any sugar/carbohydrate to survive. Thousands of years ago when we were cavemen sugar wasnt readily available and we relied on a high fat, medium protein and low carbs/sugar diet.  Look up info about the ketogenic diet. You can keto-adapt so your body's primary energy source is fat rather than sugars. 

Processed carbs and sugars have a massive link to a lot of the illnesses mentioned above. Not to mention food sensitivities, allergies etc 

 

Crap you got to my comment before I deleted it lol.

But you missed my point. My point is that all sources of energy from taking in food break down to simple sugars first because that's the only fuel our bodies know how to convert to energy. That's why we have enzymes. They break down other structures (carbs, fats) into simple sugars.

Putting the blame of heart disease on the high sugar foods alone is absurd. 

[nevets88]

23 hours ago, boogielicious said:

And the Falafel Lobby? 

All my posts have been approved by Mr Falafel.

This happened in May, but FYI, sugar content is in nutrition labels now.

http://www.vox.com/2016/5/20/11719796/new-nutrition-label-added-sugar

[georgeadey92]

@jkelley9 Yeah fair enough!  I agree with you

[saevel25]

3 hours ago, jkelley9 said:

 

Putting the blame of heart disease on the high sugar foods alone is absurd. 

The issue is that sugar in high quantities mess up the body in terms of insulin resistance. Also, the sugar industry has been blaming fat as bad for decades to help them sell more low fat items. To make low fat tasteful you need to add sugar. 

Also high quantities of sugar activate areas in the brain similar to drugs. People have found that they go into withdrawal when they try to give up high sugar foods. 

Just think of this. A single Apple has about 20 grams of sugar. A single can of soda has 40+ grams. Apples were originally seasonal only. Modernization of the food industry has amplified sugar consumption and increases accessibility. It's much harder today to eat how nature made us to do so. 

That modernization of the food industry correlates to the increase in heart disease.