Health Update: Sugar is just Bad!
Hey there everyone:
Yup, sugar is still not something anyone should consume. Check this out:
“A recent umbrella review found that sugar consumption is associated with several poor health outcomes, including cardiovascular problems and several types of cancer. The search identified 73 meta-analyses and 83 health outcomes from 8601 unique articles, including 74 unique outcomes in meta-analyses of observational studies and nine unique outcomes in meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials. Significant harmful associations between dietary sugar consumption and 18 endocrine/metabolic outcomes, 10 cardiovascular outcomes, seven cancer outcomes, and 10 other outcomes (neuropsychiatric, dental, hepatic, osteal, and allergic) were detected. Moderate quality evidence suggested that the highest versus lowest dietary sugar consumption was associated with increased body weight (sugar sweetened beverages) (class IV evidence) and ectopic fatty accumulation (added sugars) (class IV evidence).
Based on these findings, review authors suggest that people should work to keep the amount of added sugars to six teaspoons a day or less and only consume one or fewer sugar-sweetened beverages a week.”
https://www.bmj.com/content/381/bmj-2022-071609
Bottom Line:
This means that the consensus is that sugar is not beneficial to your health, so stop eating it. That’s it: stop eating it…unless you want to suffer and become ill and feel awful…the choice is yours. The easiest way to accomplish this is to simply NOT purchase processed or prepared foods. Save your own life and eat whole unprocessed nutrient dense lower calories plant-based foods…start with the Mediterranean food plan and refine your diet from there.
