No wonder this country is so obese and diabetes is going up as well. Do you know how hard it is to find products without sugar in them? Sure, you can eat your meals for the rest of your life using the vegetables in the produce aisle (at least I don’t think they’re putting sugar in lettuce), but if you look closely, you’ll see that you’re likely eating a whole sugar bowl of the stuff before your first morning cup of coffee. And if you’re getting your coffee in a store, it’s probably jacked up, too. Do you think that choco-mocha-whipped cream macho hot cup of joe just tastes sweet all by itself?
My morning cereal has five grams of sugar, so that’s more than one teaspoon (to convert, divide grams by four). You’re supposed to have six teaspoons or less per day for optimal health. Orange juice, that staple of the healthy breakfast table, has about seven grams or about two teaspoons. The diet version is watered down prior to being bottled, which means you can take your morning OJ and just add bottled water to it and you’ll put two of your daily essentials into one drink.
Ketchup can contain sugar, as can salad dressing. Remember when we used to mix our own dressing in a cruet provided for an extra charge by the makers of the dressing mix in a dry pouch? I think it was Four Seasons or something. No sugar that way, and you mix just what you need.
I wonder what it would be like to go 24 hours without any sugar? Is it even possible? Has anybody tried it and lived? I guess the solution to preventing diabetes and obesity is to relegate sugar to an occasional (like birthdays and Christmas) trip to the bakery or the candy store. If food companies tried to do it, though, most would probably go out of business or their costs would go up to where we could not afford it.
So much hassle over a refined granule of sweetness.
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