The Skinny on Sugar and High Fructose Corn Syrup

I am a capitalist and I believe McDonald’s has a right to sell you as much as they can. And I believe that Coca-Cola’s only job is to sell more Coca-Cola. That said, I have easily and permanently eliminated sugar and high fructose corn syrup from my diet — forever.

The leading cause of obesity is underwritten by our government, which subsidizes corn, wheat, soy and sugar growers.

The good news is that fewer people go hungry because of the abundance of cheap food. The bad news is that even the poor people become obese.

Carbohydrates are largely to blame, but the really bad ingredient is HFCS which did not enter our food supply until the 1970’s. Now it’s in nearly every processed food in the grocery store. Dr. Robert Lustig’s YouTube Video, Sugar: The Bitter Truth reveals the fact that fructose can only be digested by the liver. It’s got a tough to watch segment on the science of digesting sugar and fructose. In this much shorter video, Lustig reinforces the key points of his lecture while he advocates, literally, that children under 16 should be ID’d in order to buy a soda.

Please watch this and think about how good you feel, how wide awake you are, how much energy you have when you are sugar-free.