Sugar Sugar Sugar not sweet at all

Sugar 

Sugar is made of two different molecules — fructose and glucose. When digestion breaks it down, glucose separates and circulates in our body, feeding our muscles and brain. But fructose targets the liver, and when eaten in excess, the body has no other choice but to convert the sugar into liver fat. Thus it causes obesity, and continued consumption fuels development of some of the most dangerous chronic diseases, including heart disease, stroke, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and some cancers. If "fructose" sounds familiar, there's a good chance you've heard of  high fructose corn syrup, which is almost chemically identical to added sugar, along with 255 other sugar look-alikes with alias names listed on ingredients labels. 

50 Year Disease/Consumption Trend The Secrets of Sugar, CBC News

As consumption of sugar grows, so do Americans' bodies. Is it really a coincidence that rates of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and the use of sugar have increased at a nearly identical pace? In the 80s and 90s, experts blamed dietary fats for causing high rates of cardiovascular disease. But after we eliminated them from our diets, and still saw that our health was at risk, doctors and nutritionists finally realized there was another, more dangerous culprit to blame: sugar.

More than one-third of U.S. adults are obese, and following close behind are American children, which is surely a greater concern. In the last 30 years, childhood obesity has more than doubled in children and quadrupled in adolescents, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. These children are the future of our country, yet we allow food companies to prep their young taste buds with sugar-laden cereals, fried chicken products, and trans fat-filled snacks. But it makes sense that they'd target our children, the future consumers of their products. After all, if the goal is to make money, then a playpen is a goldmine. Securing snacktime, then, becomes a guaranteed way to surpass the competition. 

If I owned a juice company and had no moral obligations, there's no way I'd want parents to find out how much sugar was being poured into their kid's drinks. I'd fight the FDA for special treatment so that my drink's contents can hide behind a confusing nutrition label. Hopefully, the FDA can look past the money being offered by food-giant lobbyists, or else we may all find ourselves at risk of disease, and growing old with a lower quality of life. 

Choice your snacks wisely 

Sincerely

Rozzy