Sugar, we don't need it! The dangers of sugar (fructose)

     For all of our life, for all of existing sugar has been around, sugar is in everything! Sugar is in juice we drink, the pop, all our foods. Why is it in there, why is it there? It's because food manufactures don't care! They don't care what happens to you or me if we drink or eat products with sugar. They just want to make $, it's about $ in our country! When you look at a loaf of white bread, that's sugar right there, if you look at white rice, that's sugar, etc! Avoid sugar, it's not that hard as u think! Concentrate more on brown looking breads, rice and pastas if you can handle it. We've all heard of diabetes and obesity, well it's because of excess sugar from our foods, stored as fat in our bodies, in our fat cells under the skin in the adipose tissue. It's the deepest tissue and then comes muscle being the deepest. We all know there are 2 kinds of diabetes: Type 1 or Type 2. Type 1 is what your mostly born with, however, Type 2 is causes by too much sugar lingering in the blood where the pancreas isn't doing its job by carrying it to the cells. Too much excess sugar in the blood the same as having excess alcohol in the blood, it affects your body how you feel! Your body has a hard time balancing it out! Type 2 diabetes can be cured if you exercise and avoid sugar!

            Avoid high fructose corn syrup in foods and drinks, it’s basically a high dose of sugar to sweet foods and preserve it (hence, fructose), high amounts of sugar. Watch your sugar intake in foods; shoot for brown sugar or cane sugar, things like that. Consuming too many simple sugars though is what causes diabetes and weight gain. The proteins, fats and carbs that don’t get used up are all broken down into glucose, the body always finds a way to, & all is stored as fat when not in use.  Consuming foods with sugar is a lot different than the carbs from foods converting into glucose in our bodies, they’re for the cells in our body, and glycogen in the muscles ready for use. Just like in the carb section, it talks about glucose, fructose, and galactose, etc, we really should focus on foods that will only convert into glucose; carbohydrates, fats, and eventually proteins will convert down into glucose, that’s the exact fuel our bodies need. We don’t need more sugar than we need such as (glucose + fructose) combined in the food. The sugar in foods is just fructose, you want less of it. For example, we don’t need to throw in a bunch of fruit and/or veggies in a blender to mix or use tons of syrup on waffles or pancakes, or anything sugary because it’s more fructose. One would just want to throw in one or two kinds of fruits, and then mix it up. You’d only want to consume one kind of fruit at a time, even if you’re juicing, not too much! Extra sugar from our foods and in juice drinks is more amounts than we need. Any snacks or juice that has bright colors like blue berry or fruit punch for example, are artificial, obviously, natural fruit colors aren't as bright in juice, yogurt or fruit snacks. 

    We also need to avoid maltodextrin as much as we can, for those of you whose bodies store sugar easily.. This ingredient is in a lot of baked goods and carbohydrate foods. It's a complex carbohydrate that's still processed and the companies modify it to make the food last longer and make it taste good just like using other ingredients.  That's one example of what GMOs are, vegetables and fruits being modified. It's always about money. Our bodies absorb it quickly but it's as bad as sugar. We must stay on too of this. Still avoiding diabetes and becoming overweight or obese is the goal. If we don’t have adequate glucose in us, a hormone called glucagon will kick in, to acts opposite to insulin, to balance out glucose levels, this isn’t good. With ketchup, pancake/waffle syrups, etc, you can find ones without high fructose corn syrup & tons of sugar, just look around, read food ingredients/labels. Any juice you buy, the best thing to do is buy ones without high fructose corn syrup, 100 % juice, nothing else, or make your own. If you look at those 3 words, it tells you what it is, it shows (fructose), so you got high sugary corn syrup. Look in your local stores or online at Bob's Red Mill products of soup bean mixes, oats, flours, whey protein mixes, etc., all in small plastic packaging. 

                                              

                         (High fructose corn syrup item examples)

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